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The 2015-2026 picture for University of Washington Department of Physics is a 118-PI network with 111 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Physics and Astronomy as the leading field (42% of slots across 84 PIs; 84 labels), Nuclear and High Energy Physics as the leading subfield (20% of slots across 50 PIs; 50 labels), and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies as the leading topic (7% of slots across 26 PIs; 26 labels). This is a solid, readable collaboration map: group-level fit matters more than a single department-wide label. The top weighted PIs are Alex K.‐Y. Jen (179.5 weighted works; Perovskite Materials and Applications, Conducting polymers and applications); Arka Majumdar (134.7 weighted works; Photonic and Optical Devices, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications). The strongest pairings are Jens H. Gundlach and Andrew H. Laszlo (44 shared works, weight 23.3); Steven L. Brunton and J. Nathan Kutz (37 shared works, weight 20.4). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 80.7, around Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, led by Arka Majumdar, Xiaodong Xu, Steven L. Brunton; group 2 with 9 PIs, 11 internal connections, weight 6.8, around Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, led by Masha Baryakhtar, G. Rybka, R. G. H. Robertson.