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

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

A gold lattice with yellow light hitting it and bouncing off as a rainbow, with swirls of orange and yellow in the background.

Surviving the entropy catastrophe

Superheated gold overturns long-held theory of superheating