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.
Cornell University Doctorate Astronomy and Space Science | Cornell University |
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... |
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