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Welcome to the Physics Department, one of the strongest on the UWM campus. Feel free to browse this site to learn about the exciting work being done here. We welcome undergraduates to register as physics majors. Please contact one of our Undergraduate Advisors listed under Contact Info if you are interested to do so. Due to a relatively high faculty-to-student ratio, students receive all the benefits of close contact, both social and professional, with faculty. We also welcome students to apply for graduate studies leading to MS and PhD degrees. Details on application procedures may be found in these web pages. This web site describes the department's world-class research programs in areas such as gravitational physics, surface physics, condensed matter physics, laser optics, and biophysics. Members of the department receive major federal research funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S.Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), amongst other sources. During 2006-2007, the Department brought in over $5 million in extramural research funding (approximately 16% of the University's total). Consequently, almost all our graduate students receive stipends as either teaching or research assistants or in the form of fellowships that allow them to be entirely self-supporting. More information about the department	Events This week's events Next week's events
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Department Colloquium Friday, 16 May 2008 Novel Biophotonics Technologies for Biomedical Applications Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, Facility Director NSF Center of Biophotonics, Univ. of CA - Davis Location: Physics 135 Time: 3:00 PM (Tea and Cookies at 2:45 PM)   Biophotonics is an interdisciplinary field at the interface between physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine, dealing with the use of light in life sciences and medicine. Photons can be absorbed, emitted, or scattered by biomolecules. During either of these types of interaction, the molecule will, under controlled experimental conditions, preserve its integrity. Therefore, light offers the unique opportunity to study the morphology of biomolecules and the functions they play in their native environment. Taking advantage of a worldwide market of more then $53B, biophotonics has developed new tools, such as multiphoton excitation, Raman spectroscopy/imaging, fluorescence resonance energy transfer, or single molecule fluorescence, to mention just a few, in addition to the more established ones like transmission/absorption, reflection, or fluorescence. Several applications will be presented, including SERS biosensors, identification of cancer stem cells, cancer detection, and gene expression.
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