www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate the university of iowa graduate students: 6400 total from >100...

www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate

The University of Iowa

Graduate students:• 6400 total• from >100 countries


Where we are


Iowa City is a fun place to live


Our department’s two buildings:

Van Allen Hall

Iowa Advanced Technology Labs


Research areas

Astronomy

Atomic/Molecular

Plasma

Space

Condensed Matter

Optics

Photonics

Quantum Electronics

Interdisciplinary:

Mathematical Physics

Medical Imaging

Nonlinear Dynamics

Particle

Nuclear


Our research funding

External funding = $11.2 million per year

Per faculty member, this is one of the best in the Big Ten

• Funding is important because:• It’s a measure of peer review• It pays for stipends, travel & labs


Typical courses the first year of grad school

Fall Semester • Classical Mechanics• Electricity and Magnetism I• Quantum Mechanics I

Spring Semester • Statistical Mechanics• Electricity and Magnetism II• Quantum Mechanics II

This sequence prepares a student for the Qualifying Exam (beginning of your second year)


Financial support

STIPENDS (AY05-06)Nine months

Teaching Asst. $18,000 Research Asst. $18,500

Summer $2,000 - $2,055 / month up to 3 months

HEALTH INSURANCE


Teaching assistants

Most 1st year students are

supported as TA’s


Choosing a research advisor

Research Seminarfor 1st year students

Meeting faculty


Student research experience

giving a talk at an American Physical Societymeeting

in the labwith advisor


Astronomy

Theory

Observation• Radio & X-ray telescopes• Spacecraft• Our own optical telescopes in Arizona

Faculty: Gayley, Gurnett, Kaaret, Lang, Mutel, Scudder, Spangler, (plus search for new faculty member)


Atomic & Molecular Physics

We’re interdisciplinary - you may choose an advisor in:

•our department •or the Department of Chemistry

Faculty:

Physics & Astronomy: Kleiber, Skiff

Chemistry: Grassian, Jensen, Young


Condensed MatterWe’ve grown:

> 11 labs

Quantum-mechanical topics: semiconductor spintronics & optoelectronics, superconductivity, magnetism

Soft-condensed-matter topics: colloidal crystals

Faculty:

Boggess, Flatté, Goree, Prineas, Pryor, Schweitzer, Smirl, Wohlgenannt


Medical Imaging

We’re part of the largest research hospital in the USA• Positron Emission Tomography • Nuclear Medicine

Faculty:

Hichwa, Madsen


Particle & Nuclear Physics

Experiments at:Fermilab Higgs particle searchSLAC CP-violation studies

Theory

Faculty:

Klink, Mallik, Meurice, Newsom, Onel, Payne, Polyzou, Reno, Rodgers


Photonics & Quantum Electronics

Experiment & theory

Topics:spin & exciton dynamicsnano-scale structuresoptoelectronic devicesnonlinear optics

Faculty:

Andersen, Boggess, Flatté, Prineas, Pryor, Smirl, Wohlgenannt


Plasma Physics

Experiments & Theory

We have the largest number of plasma physics faculty members among all physics departments in the USA

Faculty:

D'Angelo, Daughton, Goree, Gurnett, Kletzing, Lonngren, Merlino, Scudder, Skiff, Spangler


Space Physics

Exploration of the solar system

Instruments on major spacecraft

Prof. Van Allen :winner of the Craaford prize= Nobel prize in Astronomy

Faculty:

D'Angelo, Daughton, Gayley, Gurnett, Kletzing, Merlino, Mutel, Scudder, Spangler


Some of our graduate students


How to applyExams

• GRE General Exam• GRE Physics

Application deadlineFebruary 1

More info:www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate


You are welcome to visit us

We will helppay your localexpenses in

Iowa City


Astronomy

Space Physics


Atomic & Molecular Physics

Plasma Physics


Condensed Matter Photonics & Quantum

Electronics


Medical Imaging


Particle & Nuclear Physics

www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate the university of iowa graduate students: 6400 total from >100...

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