Facilities and CentersThe PHY Division supports the following facilities and centers: Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC's)This new program has been established to enable major advances at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources not usually available to individual investigators or small groups (e.g., combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure). The program supports university-based centers to make transformational advances in the most promising research areas. Proposals are considered in areas within the purview of the Division of Physics, broadly interpreted, e.g., atomic, molecular, optical, plasma, elementary particle, nuclear, astro-, gravitational, interdisciplinary, and emerging areas of physics. Interdisciplinary physics is taken here to mean research at the interface between physics and other disciplines, e.g., biophysics, quantum information science, mathematical physics. The Division currently supports the following Physics Frontiers Centers: FOCUS: Frontiers in Optical Coherent and Ultrafast Science at the University of Michigan. Laser-based studies of coherent manipulation of molecular motion and the control of quantum mechanics in ultracold atoms and ions; the production, control, and utilization of extremely short light pulses; and the physics of ultrahigh intensity laser fields. Center for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. Four broad areas of research devoted to the understanding of the deepest problems of the interface between cosmology and particle physics. Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Pennsylvania State University. Focuses on the development of gravitational wave phenomenology: the physics and astrophysics that can be explored by graviational wave observations in all wavebands. Center for the Study of the Origin and Structure of Matter at Hampton University. Conducts research into the nature of matter through development of detectors, software, and simulations for nuclear and particle physics, and through a program of experimentation, education, and outreach. Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the University of California at San Diego. Encompasses a broad spectrum of research and training activities at the interface between physics and the biological sciences. Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas at the University of Wisconsin. Unites plasma physicists with plasma astrophysicists to understand magnetic self-organization in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas with a view to identifying and unraveling puzzles in plasma physics that are important in both regimes. Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics at the University of Notre Dame. Fosters both theoretical and experimental research that supports the connection between nuclear physics and astrophysics. Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Studies are primarily focused on theoretical condensed matter, elementary particle physics, astrophysics, and biological physics. Jointly sponsored with the Divisions of Materials Research, Astronomical Sciences, and Mathematical Sciences.
Other Facilities and CentersThe Division of Physics supports a number of large and small-scale experimental facilities, centers and theoretical institutes. These include: Facilities:
The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR)
The Indiana University Cyclotron Facility (IUCF)
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University
The Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Large Aperture Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California at Los Angeles
JILA at the University of Colorado
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) jointly between MIT and Harvard University Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST) at the University of California at Davis. The center brings together scientists, industry, educators and the community to research and develop applications for biophotonics -- the science of using light to understand the inner workings of cells and tissues in living organisms.
The Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (ITAMP) at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
The Aspen Center for Physics
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
The Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering
The e-Print Archive at Los Alamos
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