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HEPL supports interdisciplinary research programs in fundamental science and engineering and provides unique research and educational opportunities for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students.

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics includes a strong focus on fundamental questions about the new physics underlying the Standard Models of particle physics, cosmology, and gravity; and the nature and applications of our basic frameworks (quantum field theory and string theory) for attacking these questions. Our research also includes a major emphasis on the novel phenomena in condensed matter physics that emerge in systems with many degrees of freedom.