Doctor's degrees in Astronomy: A general program that focuses on the planetary, galactic, and stellar phenomena occurring in outer space. Includes instruction in celestial mechanics, cosmology, stellar physics, galactic evolution, quasars, stellar distribution and motion, interstellar medium, atomic and molecular constituents of astronomical phenomena, planetary science, solar system evolution, and specific methodologies such as optical astronomy, radioastronomy, and theoretical astronomy.
Admission into the PhD program follows upon completion of the requirements for Applicants to the graduate program should have the strong physics background implied by a Bachelor's degree in either physics or astronomy. Undergraduate credits in physics should include courses in mechanics, electromagnetism, atomic and nuclear physics, optics, and thermodynamics/statistical mechanics. Mathematics through differential equations and a course in introductory...
Program Purpose The purpose of the Physics Astronomy PhD program is to train students in the discipline of physics research to prepare them for careers in governmental research, industrial research, or academic research and teaching. Students gain breadth by attending a weekly colloquium and by visiting several of the research group meetings held in the department. Students gain depth in the field by taking a standard set of astronomy courses....
Since its beginnings (the days of George Ellery Hale, Edwin Hubble, Fritz Zwicky, Walter Baade, Willy Fowler, Jesse Greenstein and many others), Caltech has been one of the world's premier astronomical research institutions. Here were discovered the expansion of the universe, quasars, and the theory of nucleosynthesis. The fields of infrared astronomy and VLBI were born and developed at Caltech. There are no signs of slowing down. We operate what...
The department offers a graduate program leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in astronomy. Current research provides opportunities in optical observational astronomy as well as computational theory. Prospective graduate students must submit scores on the Graduate Record Examination including the advanced physics test. Further information on the department's graduate programs, and details concerning financial aid, are available through the...
Members of the staff are particularly interested in directing graduate research in the following subjects:
Astronomy and astrophysics. Relativity and cosmology; dynamics of the interstellar gas; magnetohydrodynamics; nuclear astrophysics; gravitational theory; X-ray sources; black holes; chemistry of interstellar medium; high energy astrophysics
Atmospheric and ionospheric radio investigations. Dynamics of the atmosphere and ionosphere; incoherent...
The space sciences at Florida Tech comprise an interdisciplinary field that includes astronomy, astrophysics, space physics, planetary and solar studies, and physics of lightning. By nature an interdisciplinary subject, graduate study in the space sciences can be narrowly focused within one of these specializations. Florida Tech‘s doctoral degree in space sciences provides training with the breadth and depth consistent with the highest-level degree...
The Department of Astronomy offers a rich and varied program of theoretical, observational and experimental graduate work leading to the PhD in astronomy. Students are not accepted for a separate master's degree program. Research is carried out at the Harvard College Observatory, which shares buildings and general facilities with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Together the two observatories constitute the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...
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