UW-Madison

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University of Wisconsin - Madison
J. C. Sprott Department of Physics University of
Wisconsin - Madison Presented at Southeast
University In Nanjing, China On April 8, 2008
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Madison, Wisconsin
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Facts about UW - Madison

• Founded in 1848
• Campus occupies 3.7 km2
• Student enrollment 42,000
• Faculty members 2,054
• Annual budget 2.2 109
• International students 10 (5 Asian)
• Research ranking (US public) 3rd in expenses

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The Physics Building
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Physics Department Research Groups

• Astrophysics
• Atomic, Molecular Optical Physics
• Biophysics Condensed Matter Physics
• Cosmology
• Chaos and Complex Systems
• Experimental Neutrino Physics
• High Energy Physics
• High Energy Phenomenology
• Nuclear Physics
• Plasma Physics
• Particle Theory
• Quantum Computing
• String Theory

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The Wonders of Physics