Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Welcome to the Physics Department.
Stanford Physics is a teaching and research department. Our course offerings range from Freshman seminars to advanced graduate classes. We enjoy close connections to Applied Physics and departments at SLAC.
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News Spotlight
- In the News
Stanford and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will lead six Genesis Mission projects that will harness AI to accelerate advances in critical areas including battery waste, understanding the evolution of the universe, and plant genetics. In...
From a mountaintop in Chile, under clear dark skies, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the revolutionary Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The 10-year survey is Rubin’s signature campaign to create the most comprehensive, cinematic...
- Faculty
This article explains how physicists try to make sense of how the quantum world works in our expanding universe. Tom Hartman describes how black hole physics can help us understand the universe at its smallest levels.
Our Research
Undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are mentored in astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, atomic and laser physics, and condensed matter physics. Check out our research areas below.
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