The Department of Physics at the University of Nevada, Reno specializes in atomic, molecular, optical and chemical physics, high energy density and plasma physics, condensed matter physics, and atmospheric sciences.

Recent news from the Department of Physics

A hand holding a pocket watch with sunlight streaming through the background. The clock displays 2:39.

The most precise clock ever built ticks closer to reality

Recent findings provide roadmap to building nuclear clocks

Conference participants stand on the steps outside the Tahoe Blue Event Center under a blue sky with a single cloud.

Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems conference hosted at Lake Tahoe

Scientists and students spent a week on Tahoe’s south shore discussing and sharing cutting-edge physics research

A woman and man speak in front of a scientific poster.

Jaya Sicard receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Sicard will study high energy density science at UC Berkeley