Condensed matter experiment is a diverse, rapidly-changing subfield of physics that has ties to many technologies and disciplines -- from solid state electronics to superconductors to materials science -- and overlaps with applied physics, optical physics, and chemistry. U-M's condensed matter group has in a short time gained a widespread reputation as a vigorous, innovative center for both research and teaching. Work is done at Michigan, the NSF Center of Ultrafast Optical Science, and several national and international user facilities, including synchrotron radiation facilities at the Advanced Light Source (Berkeley), the National Synchrotron Light Source (Brookhaven), the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (Grenoble, France), the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SLAC), Advanced Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory); and at neutron scattering facilities at NIST (Maryland), LANSCE (Los Alamos), and IPNS (Argonne).