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Physics

Master of Arts
Master of Science in Applied Physics
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Robert Lee Moore Hall (RLM) 5.224, phone (512) 471-1664, fax (512) 471-9637; campus mail code: C1600

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program, Department of Physics, 1 University Station C1600, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: graduate@physics.utexas.edu

URL: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/

Facilities for Graduate Work

Modern facilities for graduate study and research include a large-scale cryogenic laboratory; synthesis and strong magnetic field equipment; nuclear magnetic and electron paramagnetic resonance laboratories; extensive facilities for tunneling and force microscopy and nanostructure characterization, SQUID magnetometry, and electron spectroscopy; well-equipped laboratories in optical spectroscopy, quantum optics, femtosecond spectroscopy and diagnostics, electron-atom and surface scattering and high-intensity laser science; and facilities for turbulent flow and nonlinear dynamics experiments. Plasma physics experiments are conducted at the major national tokamaks in Boston and San Diego. Experiments in high-energy heavy ion nuclear and particle physics are conducted at large accelerator facilities such as Brookhaven National Laboratory (New York), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Illinois), and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (California). Theoretical work in plasma physics, condensed matter physics, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, relativity, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, and particle theory is conducted within the Department of Physics. Students have access to excellent computer and library facilities. The department maintains and staffs a machine shop, student workshop, low-temperature and high-vacuum shop, and electronics design and fabrication shop.

Areas of Study

The Department of Physics has active research groups in nine main areas of current physics research: atomic, molecular, and optical physics; classical physics; nuclear physics; statistical and thermal physics; plasma physics; condensed matter physics; nonlinear dynamics; relativity and cosmology; and elementary particle physics. In most of these fields both experimental and theoretical work is in progress.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2013.

Sanjay K Banerjee
Roger D Bengtson
Herbert L Berk
Arno R Bohm
Boris Breizman
James R Chelikowsky
Charles B Chiu
William R Coker
Alejandro L De Lozanne
Alexander A Demkov
Duane A Dicus
Jacques Distler
Todd Ditmire
Michael W Downer
James L Erskine
Gregory A Fiete
Manfred Fink
Willy Fischler
Richard Fitzpatrick
Ernst-Ludwig Florin
Daniel S Freed
Kenneth W Gentle
Austin M Gleeson
John B Goodenough
Vernita Gordon
Mark F Hamilton
Richard D Hazeltine
Bjorn Hegelich
Daniel J Heinzen
Paul S Ho
Gerald W Hoffmann
Vadim Kaplunovsky
John W Keto
Can Kilic
Hans A Koch
Sacha E Kopp
Keji Lai
Sheldon Landsberger
Karol Lang
Xiaoqin E Li
Allan H Macdonald
Michael P Marder
Hans M Mark
Christina Markert
John T Markert
Richard A Matzner
Milos Milosavljevic
Tessie J Moon
Philip J Morrison
Qian Niu
Peter Onyisi
Sonia Paban
Charles L Radin
Mark G Raizen
Linda E Reichl
Jack L Ritchie
Rodney S Ruoff
Roy F Schwitters
Paul R Shapiro
Chih-Kang Shih
George T Shubeita
Gennady Shvets
Greg O Sitz
George Sudarshan
Harry L Swinney
Maxim Tsoi
Jack S Turner
James W Vick
Steven Weinberg
John C Wheeler
Zhen Yao

 


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