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The University of Iowa
Graduate students:• 6400 total• from >100 countries
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Where we are
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Iowa City is a fun place to live
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Our department’s two buildings:
Van Allen Hall
Iowa Advanced Technology Labs
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Research areas
Astronomy
Atomic/Molecular
Plasma
Space
Condensed Matter
Optics
Photonics
Quantum Electronics
Interdisciplinary:
Mathematical Physics
Medical Imaging
Nonlinear Dynamics
Particle
Nuclear
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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
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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)
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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
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Teaching assistants
Most 1st year students are
supported as TA’s
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Choosing a research advisor
Research Seminarfor 1st year students
Meeting faculty
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Student research experience
giving a talk at an American Physical Societymeeting
in the labwith advisor
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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)
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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
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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
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Medical Imaging
We’re part of the largest research hospital in the USA• Positron Emission Tomography • Nuclear Medicine
Faculty:
Hichwa, Madsen
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Particle & Nuclear Physics
Experiments at:Fermilab Higgs particle searchSLAC CP-violation studies
Theory
Faculty:
Klink, Mallik, Meurice, Newsom, Onel, Payne, Polyzou, Reno, Rodgers
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Photonics & Quantum Electronics
Experiment & theory
Topics:spin & exciton dynamicsnano-scale structuresoptoelectronic devicesnonlinear optics
Faculty:
Andersen, Boggess, Flatté, Prineas, Pryor, Smirl, Wohlgenannt
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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
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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
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Some of our graduate students
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How to applyExams
• GRE General Exam• GRE Physics
Application deadlineFebruary 1
More info:www.physics.uiowa.edu/graduate
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You are welcome to visit us
We will helppay your localexpenses in
Iowa City
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Astronomy
Space Physics
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Atomic & Molecular Physics
Plasma Physics
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Condensed Matter Photonics & Quantum
Electronics
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Medical Imaging
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Particle & Nuclear Physics