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- Faculty at UC Irvine are engaged in research in diverse areas of astronomy and astrophysics. These include cosmology and particle astrophysics; studies of the cosmic microwave background radiation; observational and theoretical studies of galaxy structure and evolution, galaxy clusters and dark matter, black holes, and quasars; star and planet formation; and the design of optical telescopes and instrumentation.
The UC Irvine Department of Physics and Astronomy has established a research program in modern cosmology, an entirely new field of research at the university. The new program builds upon the department's existing strengths in particle physics, particle astrophysics, astrophysics and astronomy, thus expanding the current research at the university to the study of nature at not only the smallest but also the largest scales. As a result, the program established in July, 2004 enables scientists at UCI to investigate profound questions at a level of depth and breadth that exists currently at very few other institutions.
[Summary provided by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine]
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