Prospective Students, Why Cornell Physics?
The Department of Physics at Cornell offers an education hard to find at any other university. From award-winning faculty to research and experimental facilities such as the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Cornell Center for Nanoscale Systems, your education at Cornell will include classroom and laboratory experiences that are second to none.
Students and families wishing to visit the Physics Department in order to discuss the majors program with a faculty member can make arrangements by contacting Christine Clay at (607) 255-7562 or cmc439@cornell.edu.
When you make your appointment, be sure to ask about our ambassador program where we have current undergraduate students meet with you (and maybe even show you the lab they work in).
Walter Hopkins is a graduate student working with Professor Julia Thom on identifying and measuring the rate of decays of the Bs meson into two oppositely charged muons at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). The CDF detector identifies and measures the momentum and energy of the products of proton and anti-proton collisions at the Tevatron, a powerful accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. Until the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is completely operational, the Tevatron ...