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Read moreUniquely versatile undergraduate and graduate programs, an unrivaled breadth of research training, and Nobel Prize-winning work in world class facilities, defines the Department of Physics at Cornell University as a national and global leader in physics training and education. The department has more than 40 active professors, approximately 180 graduate students and 65 undergraduate majors, and offers a full range of university-level work in physics, from general education courses for nonscientists to doctoral-level independent research.
By David Nutt, Cornell Chronicle
March 12, 2024
How do you know you are looking at a dog? What are the odds you are right?
If you’re a machine-learning algorithm, you sift through thousands of images – and millions of probabilities – to arrive at the “true” answer, but different algorithms take different routes to get there.
A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania has found a way to cut through that mind-boggling amount of data and show that most successful deep neural networks follow a similar trajectory in the same “low-dimensional” space.
Read more here.
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Read moreEngaging with a whole set of mentors will allow the CIDER postdocs to approach questions about student learning and experiences across disciplinary boundaries and use techniques from multiple fields.
Read moreCornell researchers have demonstrated that acoustic sound waves can be used to control the motion of an electron as it orbits a lattice defect in a diamond, a technique that can potentially improve the sensitivity of quantum sensors and be used in other quantum devices.
Read morePeter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Read moreMore students can afford to stay on campus to work in faculty labs during the summer thanks to generous alumni.
Read moreThe program’s goal is to “produce a diverse body of broadly educated fellows” in areas targeted by DOE’s Office of Science, including RF superconducting structures, high brightness electron sources for linear accelerators, physics of large accelerators and system engineering, and operation of large-...
Read moreWith these new appointments, the number of A&S faculty appointed to endowed professorships since fall 2018 has reached 76.
Read moreThe new Simons Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert may soon answer the great scientific question of what happened in the tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
Read moreResearch in the department is organized in two laboratories, the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP) and the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP). Explore the links below to learn more about the major research areas of the department and the facilities available to researchers.