Louisiana State University Physics & Astronomy

Welcome from the Chairman . . .

We are pleased that you decided to visit us on the internet. Our department is part of the LSU Baton Rouge campus, which has been voted as one of the ten most beautiful campuses in the country. Our local culture is unique and is a derivative of many other cultures, including French, African, British, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish to name a few.

We have a faculty which is extremely research active and at the same time proud of its tradition of excellent teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level. We have 46 full-time faculty members, of which 40 are in the tenure track professional ranks. Our nationally ranked department has 30 postdoctoral researchers and 83 graduate students, 16 of which are in our professional medical physics program. We have approximately 100 undergraduate physics majors in 5 different concentrations. We have access to unique research facilities: synchrotron at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD) in Baton Rouge, the Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) 30 miles away in Livingston, LA, the only operational gravitational wave detector in the US using resonant bar technology (ALLEGRO) and the fastest supercomputer in the world completely controlled by a university. Our external research funding is approximately $6M. Our faculty have been distinguished with Sloan, Fulbright, Guggenheim fellowships.

Our plan for the decade is to increase the number of faculty and graduate students to enhance research productivity.

Michael Cherry, Department Chair

Updated: Tue, 17-Jul-2007 2:19 PM