Graduate Education

The Department of Physics offers flexible PhD programs designed to provide a comprehensive, advanced education in physics while allowing students to tailor their studies to their specific interests. The programs combine graduate-level coursework, research apprenticeships, teaching experience, and thesis research. The Department offers curricula leading to the following degrees:

PhD, Physics (PY76)

• Optional Specializations and Interdisciplinary Concentrations:
  • Specialization in Computational Neuroscience (PY82)
  • Specialization in Computational Science (PY79)
  • Specialization in Quantitative Biology (PY81)

PhD, Physics (Biophysics) (PY75)

Entering graduate students to the Physics Department are required to have a sound knowledge of undergraduate physics, including junior/senior level courses in classical mechanics and electricity/magnetism, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and quantum physics, and to have taken upper-division laboratory courses.