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Admission, Financial Aid, & HousingAddress admission & financial aid inquiries to:

Graduate Secretary Department of Physics & Astronomy, 115 South 1400 East #201 Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0830 admissions@physics.utah.edu

Graduate application fee required: $45; foreign students - $65

Admission deadline (Fall semester): February 1st. Applications received thereafter are continue to be considered on a space-available basis, up to the University deadline of April 1st.

Admission requirements: For admission to the graduate programs, a bachelor’s degree in physics is required with a minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0 specified. The subject GRE is required. No minimum specified. Students from non-English speaking countries are required to demonstrate proficiency in English via the TOEFL exam. Minimum acceptable score for admission is: TOEFL iBT: 85, PBT: 550, IELTS: 6.5

GAPSFAS application required: NoFinancial aid deadline: February 1stLoans available: YesAddress housing inquiries to:

Office of Residential Living, 5 Heritage Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 www.housing.utah.edu Graduate student single housing varies from $4,000 - 5,000 per academic year including utilities, and amenities such as internet, cable TV, etc.

Graduate Degree RequirementsMASTER’S: 30 graduate semester hours with a 3.0

grade average in an approved program with satisfactory performance on Departmental Common Exam. Either thesis or non-thesis M.S. available. Master of Instrumentation: 30 graduate semester hours with a 3.0 GPA. Nine to fifteen hours will be related to the instrumentation project. No language requirement. For admission, a bachelor’s degree in engineering, biology, chemistry, or some related field may be substituted for a degree in physics.

DOCTORATE: 45 graduate semester hours required. Satisfactory performance on Departmental Common Exam or GRE Physics required for admission to Ph.D. program (no set minimum). Satisfactory performance (3.0 average) in an approved course program is required. Qualifying Exam, dissertation, and dissertation exam required. Teaching experience required, and one of last two years must be in residence. No language requirement.

OTHER PROGRAMS: Interdisciplinary studies available in chemical physics, and a variety of other areas by special arrangement. The Ph.D. program in medical physics is an interdisciplinary program in which complex medical and biological systems are studied using physics-based techniques and models. M.A. requirements are the same as M.S. except proficiency in one foreign language is required.

FacultyDistinguished ProfessorsSokolsky, Pierre V., Ph.D., Illinois, 1973. Cosmic rays;

High energy physics.Vardeny, Zeev V., Ph.D., Technion, Israel, 1979.

Experimental condensed matter.Wu, Yong-Shi, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Science, 1965.

High energy theory.

ProfessorsAilion, David C., Ph.D., Illinois, 1964. Experimental

condensed matter.Boehme, Christoph, Ph.D., Philipps-Universität

Marburg, Germany, 2002. Experimental condensed matter.Bromley, Benjamin C., Ph.D., Dartmouth College, 1994.

Theoretical astrophysics.Cassiday, George L., Ph.D., Cornell, 1968. Cosmic rays.DeFord, John W., Ph.D., Illinois, 1962. Physics education.DeTar, Carleton E., Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1970.

Elementary particle theory.Gondolo, Paolo, Ph.D., California, Los Angeles, 1991.

Cosmology; Dark matter.Harris, Frank E., Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1954.

Chemical physics.Jui, Charles C., Ph.D., Stanford, 1992. Cosmic rays.Kieda, David, Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989. Experimental

high energy astrophysics.Mishchenko, Eugene, Ph.D., Landau Inst. for Theoretical

Physics, Moscow, 1998. Theoretical condensed matter.Raikh, Mikhail E., Ph.D., Ioffe Physico Technical Institute,

1981. Theoretical condensed matter.Springer, R. Wayne, Ph.D., Maryland, 1991. Experimental

astrophysics.Starykh, Oleg, Ph.D., Russian Academy of Science, 1991.

Theoretical condensed matter.Symko, Orest, Ph.D., Oxford, 1967. Low temperature

physics; thermoacoustics.Thomson, Gordon, Ph.D., Harvard, 1972. Cosmic rays;

High energy physics.Williams, Clayton C., Ph.D., Stanford, 1984. Nanometer

scale surface science.

Associate ProfessorsBelz, John, Ph.D., Temple Univ., 1993. Cosmic rays; High

energy physics.Bergman, Douglas, Ph.D., Yale, 1997. Cosmic rays; High

energy physics.Dawson, Kyle, Ph.D., Berkeley, 2004. Observational

cosmology.Deemyad, Shanti, Ph.D., Washington Univ., St. Louis,

2004. Experimental condensed matter. Gerton, Jordan M., Ph.D., Rice, 2001. Experimental

condensed matter.LeBohec, Stephan, Ph.D., Paris XI, 1996. Theoretical

fundamental physics.Rogachev, Andrey, Ph.D., Nagoya, Japan, 2000.

Experimental condensed matter. Saffarian, Saveez, Ph.D., Washington Univ., St. Louis,

2003. Biophysics.

Sandick, Pearl, Ph.D., Minnesota, 2008. Theoretical Particle Physics.

Seth, Anil, Ph.D., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, 2006. Astronomy.

Zheng, Zheng, Ph.D., Ohio State, 2004. Astronomy.

Assistant ProfessorsDeshpande, Vikram, Ph.D., Caltech, 2009. Experimental

condensed matter.Ivans, Inese, Ph.D., UT Austin, 2002. Astronomy.Li, Sarah, Ph.D., Univ. of California, Riverside, 2010. Physics.Pesin, Dmytro, Ph.D., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, 2009.

Theoretical condensed matter.Vershinin, Michael, Ph.D., Illinois, 2004. Biophysics.Wik, Daniel, Ph.D., Univ. of Virginia, 2010. X-ray

astronomy.Zasowski, Gail, Ph.D., Univ. of Virginia, 2012.

Galactic archeology.

Research ProfessorsLupton, John M., Ph.D., Durham, 2001.

Experimental condensed matter.Matthews, John N., Ph.D., Rutgers, 1995. Cosmic rays.Worlock, John M., Ph.D., Cornell, 1962. Experimental

condensed matter.

Research Associate ProfessorsAbuZayyad, Tareq, Ph.D., Utah, 2000. Cosmic rays.

Brownstein, Joel, Ph.D., Perimeter Institute, 2009. Gravitational lensing, dark matter, gravity, cosmology.

Laicher, Gernot, Ph.D., Utah, 1994. Experimental condensed matter.

Research Assistant ProfessorsAbeysekara, Udara, Ph.D., Michigan State, 2014. High-

energy Astrophysics. Lafalce, Evan, Ph.D., Univ. of South Florida, 2014.

Experimental condensed matter; photonics.Malissa, Hans, Ph.D., Johannes Kepler Univ., Austria, 2007.

Experimental condensed matter.Bendjennat, Mourad, Ph.D., Hassan II Univ. (Morocco),

1996, Biochemistry, Cell & Molecular Biology.

Professor (Lecturer)Ingebretsen, Richard J., Ph.D., Utah, 1989. M.D., Utah,

1993. Physics education.

Associate Professors (Lecturers)Buehler, Tabitha, Ph.D., BYU, 2011. Star Formation.Pantziris, Anthony, Ph.D., Brown, 1987. Physics

education.Stone, Christopher, Ph.D., Utah, 1992. Relativity. Physics

Education.

Assistant Professor (Lecturer)Nyawelo, Tino, Ph.D., Free University, Amsterdam, 2004.

Theoretical Particle Physics.

Research AssociatesAbbasi, Rasha, Ph.D., Utah, 2007. Cosmic rays.Baird, Doug, Ph.D. pending, Utah. Experimental

condensed matter.

Boardman, Nicholas, PhD., Univ. of St Andrews, UK 2017. Galaxy formation and evolution.

Cai, Weizhao, Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz Univ., Poland 2014. Experimental condensed matter.

du Mas des Bourboux, Hélion, Ph.D., CEA Saclay, France 2017. Observational cosmology.

Hanlon, Bill, Ph.D., Utah, 2008. Cosmic rays.Ivanov, Dmitri, Ph.D., Rutgers, 2012. Cosmic rays.Liu, HaoLiang, Ph.D., CAS, China, 2012. Experimental

condensed matter.Mariappan, Vivek, Ph.D., Cochin Univ. of Science &

Technology, 2012, Astronomy & Astrophysics.Tsuchikawa, Ryuichi, Ph.D., Univ. of Central Florida,

2015. Experimental condensed matter.Vaquero, Alejandro, Ph.D., Universidad de Zaragoza,

2011. Lattice QCD.Voggel, Karina, Ph.D., LMU Munich, 2016.

Astrophysics, nearby galaxies.Wang, Jingying, Ph.D., North Carolina State, 2016.

Experimental condensed matter.Yang, Jun, Ph.D., Univ. of Massachusetts Lowell, 2017.

Pulsars and X-ray binaries.

Faculty Research Specialties

ExperimentalAstronomy & Astrophysics: Buehler, Dawson, Ivans,

Kieda, Seth, Springer, Wik, Zasowski.

Biophysics: Gerton, Saffarian, Vershinin.

Condensed Matter: Ailion, Boehme, Deemyad, Deshpande, Laicher, LeBohec, Li, Lupton, Rogachev, Symko, Vardeny, Williams, Worlock.

Cosmic Rays: Abu-Zayyad, Belz, Bergman, Cady, Cassiday, Jui, Matthews, Sokolsky, Thomson.

Health & Medical Physics: Ingebretsen, Laicher.

TheoreticalAstrophysics, Relativity, Cosmology:

Bromley, Brownstein, Gondolo, Sandick, Zheng.

Chemical Physics: Harris.

Condensed Matter:  Mishchenko, Pesin, Raikh, Starykh, Wu.

Elementary Particle: DeTar, Sandick, Wu.

Fundamental Physics: Le Bohec.

Physics Education: DeFord, Ingebretsen, Pantziris, Stone.

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