Why LSU Physics and Astronomy?
Because we are a top quality research University with a wide variety of fun programs in physics and astronomy. We have some of the best programs in the world for gravity research (both theory and experiment), quantum optics and quantum information, medical physics, and compact objects in astrophysics. We have great facilities with LIGO (for gravity wave detection), CAMD (a synchrotron light source for many applications in solid state physics), QueenBee, Texpor, and Philip (with plenty of supercomputer power), and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (for medical physics). Our faculty are major players in some of the most exciting groups around; including Auger (for the highest energy cosmic rays), and Super-Kamiokande plus T2K (for neutrinos). The promise of these programs includes a likely Nobel Prize for LIGO and a career helping to fight cancer for our medical masters graduates. All of this translates into great opportunities for you to work on an exciting thesis that will place you
