Physics

Master of Arts
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, 2515 Speedway Stop 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 2019 semester.

Scott J Aaronson Timothy R Andeen Jr Herbert L Berk Boris Breizman James R Chelikowsky William R Coker Alejandro L De Lozanne Alexander A Demkov Duane A Dicus Jacques Distler Todd Ditmire Michael Wayne 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 Richard D Hazeltine Bjorn Hegelich Daniel J Heinzen Vadim Kaplunovsky John W Keto Can Kilic Keji Lai

Sheldon Landsberger Karol Lang Xiaoqin Li Allan H Macdonald Michael P Marder Christina Markert John T Markert Richard A Matzner Milos Milosavljevic Philip J Morrison Andrew M Neitzke Qian Niu Peter Onyisi Raymond Lee Orbach Sonia Paban Andrew Potter Mark G Raizen Linda E Reichl Jack L Ritchie Roy F Schwitters Paul R Shapiro Chih-Kang Shih Greg O Sitz Devarajan Thirumalai Maxim Tsoi Emanuel Tutuc Steven Weinberg John C Wheeler Zhen Yao