The University of Oklahoma is a comprehensive research University with over 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students. We are located in Norman: a town of about 125,000 people which is 25 miles from Oklahoma City. The Department of Physics and Astronomy has approximately 30 full time faculty, nearly 100 graduate students, and a long history of educating scientists and engineers (the latter through our Engineering Physics program) at the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. levels. Current research in our department is focused in the four areas listed below.
The ongoing research efforts of the OU Astrophysics & Cosmology group span a wide range of interests, including supernovae, cosmology, extragalactic astronomy, nucleosynthesis, observational astronomy, exoplanets, disk/planetary dynamics, star formation, and more.
The AMO group at OU studies the interactions between and manipulation of atoms, molecules, and photons at low temperatures and energies. Our research areas include ultracold atoms and molecules, quantum devices, quantum optics, matter waves, scattering, dimensional perturbation theory, precision spectroscopy, quantum information and entanglement, and more.
The condensed matter group encompasses semiconductor physics, soft-matter physics, and nanophysics. Some of our research interests include nanostructures, scanning probe microscopy, semiconductor quantum wells, quantum materials, correlated electrons, topological materials, nano/microelectronic devices, photovoltaics, materials science, and more.
Research interests of the high energy physics group at OU include dark matter, standard model measurements, particle cosmology, Higgs boson studies, ATLAS detector development at CERN, quantum field theory, supersymmetric searches, and more.
From state-of-the-art laboratories to powerful computational facilities, the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy has access to a wealth of resources.
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