南加州大学物理与天文学系拥有来自世界各地的80多名博士研究生以及30名从事基础和应用研究的教职员工，为这座充满生机的国际大都市提供了令人兴奋的研究环境。研究领域涵盖了纯粹领域和应用领域，并在物理和天文学系以及我们联合学院的团队中提供了研究机会。这些领域包括实验科学，计算和纯理论。我们的研究实验室包括激光器，光学测量系统，低温设备，集群和原子束设备，材料的生长和表征，生物材料处理以及世界上最快的超级计算机之一。
PhD students who come from all around the world, and 30 faculty members engaged in fundamental and applied research, the USC Department of Physics and Astronomy offers an exciting research environment in a vibrant cosmopolitan city. The areas of research span both pure and applied areas with research opportunities within the Department of Physics and Astronomy as well as the groups of our joint faculty. Those areas include experimental science, computation, and pure theory. Our research laboratories include lasers, optical measurement systems, low temperature facilities, cluster and atomic beam equipment, materials growth and characterization, biomaterials handling, and one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.