The Department of Physics was established in 1960 as the first new department of the UC San Diego campus. Since then it has developed a strong faculty and student body with unusually diversified interests that lie primarily in the following areas: Physics of elementary particles Quantum liquids and superconductivity Solid-state and statistical physics Plasma physics Astrophysics and space physics Atomic and molecular collision and structure Biophysics Geophysics Nonlinear dynamics Computational physics In addition to on-campus research facilities, the high-energy program uses accelerators at SLAC, CERN, and Fermi Laboratory. The astrophysics program uses facilities at Keck, Lick, and Kitt Peak Observatories.

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