Sample Programs
The appropriate curriculum for a graduate student in AS&T depends on the individual student’s scholarly goals. Curricula will usually bridge the traditional disciplines, with courses taken from several departments within mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering. Typically, students will take two (2) or three (3) courses per semester the first two (2) years, and one (1) course per semester the remaining years, when the student concentrates on his or her dissertation research. In addition, students must enroll in one (1) seminar each semester.
The following sample programs illustrate hypothetical four-year course plans for the Ph.D. degree in topical areas that have been pursued by AS&T graduate students.
- Electronic and Optical Physics
- Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Computational Imaging
- Computational Science & Engineering
- Physical Chemistry
- Solid State Physics and Devices
- Quantum Information and Nanotechnology
Student Publications
J.M. Morris and Fleming, G.R. Quantitative modeling of energy dissipation in Arabidopsis thaliana, Environmental and Experimental Botany, 154, 99-109 (2018).
M. Leuenberger*, J.M.Morris*, A.M.Chan, L. Leonelli, K.K. Niyogi and G.R. Fleming, Dissecting and modeling zeaxanthin- and lutein-dependent nonphotochemical quenching in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 114, E7009–E7017 (2017). * Contributed equally.
C. Noel, M. Berlin-Udi, C. Matthiesen, Y. Zhou, J. Yu, V. Lordi and H. Häffner, “Electric-field noise from thermally-activated fluctuators in a surface ion trap”, arXiv:1809.05624 (Submitted to PRA)
H.-K. Li, E. Urban, C. Noel, A. Chuang, Y. Xia, A. Ransford, B. Hemmerling, Y. Wang, T. Li and H. Häffner, and X. Zhang “Realization of translational symmetry in trapped cold ion rings” Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 053001 (2017)
J. Zaks, K. Amarnath, D.M. Kramer, K.K. Niyogi and G.R. Fleming, “A kinetic model of rapidly reversible nonphotochemical quenching”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109, 15757–62. (2012)
C. Jin*, E. C. Regan*, D. Wang*, M. I. B. Utama, C. Yang, J. Cain, Y. Qin, Y. Shen, Z. Zheng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, F. Wang. Resolving spin, valley, and Moiré quasi-angular momentum of interlayer excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructures. Submitted.
C. Jin*, E. C. Regan*, A. Yan, M. I. B. Utama, D. Wang, S. Zhao, Y. Qin, S. Yang, Z. Zheng, S. Shi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, F. Wang. Observation of Moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices. Nature 567, 76 (2019).
B.E. Kelly*, I Bhattacharya*, H. Heidari, M. Shusteff, C.M. Spadaccini, H.K. Taylor, “Volumetric additive manufacturing via tomographic reconstruction”, Science 363 (6431), 1075-1079 (2019)
F Lu*, I Bhattacharya*, H Sun, TTD Tran, KW Ng, GN Malheiros-Silveira et al.,“Nanopillar Quantum Well Lasers Directly Grown on Silicon and Emitting at Silicon-Transparent Wavelengths”, Optica 4 (7), 717-723 (2017)
K. Gotlieb, C.-Y. Lin, M. Serbyn, W. Zhang, C. L. Smallwood, C. Jozwiak, H. Eisaki, Z. Hussain, A. Vishwanath, and A. Lanzara. “Revealing Hidden Spin-Momentum Locking in a High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductor.” Science 362, 1271-1275 (2018).
K. Gotlieb, Z.L. Li, C.-Y. Lin, C. Jozwiak, J. H. Ryoo, C.-H. Park, Z. Hussain, S. G. Louie, and A. Lanzara. “Symmetry Rules Shaping Spin-Orbit Textures in Surface States.” Phys. Rev. B 95, 245142 (2017).
Samuel S. Olivier and Jim E. Morel, “Variable Eddington Factor Method for the Sn Equations with Lumped Discontinuous Galerkin Spatial Discretization Coupled to a Drift-Diffusion Acceleration Equation with Mixed Finite-Element Discretization”, J. Comp. .Theoret.Transport, 46, N.6-7, 480 (2017).
Peter Anninos, P. Chris Fragile, Samuel S. Olivier, Robert Hoffman, Bhupendra Mishra, and Karen Camarda, “Relativistic Tidal Disruption and Nuclear Ignition of White Dwarf Stars by Intermediate-mass Black Holes”, Astrophys. J., .865, N.1, 3 (2018).