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Doctoral

Physics, PhD

Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 34 courses

About This Program

The principal goal of graduate study is to train the student to conduct original research. Therefore, physics and astronomy graduate students at Johns Hopkins are involved in research starting in their first semester in the program. The student chooses their first research advisor among the professorial faculty and starts working on the first-semester research project. Tenure-line and research faculty with appointments in our department will advise all incoming PhD students for their first research rotations. The purpose of this is: 1) To ground the new PhA students with a research experience within the department. (2) To introduce new students to department culture and other physics students. (3) To provide a department faculty perspective on each incoming student. See the listings for faculty, joint-faculty, and emeritus faculty for eligible first-rotation advisors. For the remaining rotation cycles, if the proposed research advisor does not hold a primary appointment as a tenure-track or research faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, the form must be co-signed by a PHA faculty member, who will provide mentorship (relevant department faculty members list). This requirement holds for all semesters of research. Fall semester research continues through intersession in January. The spring-semester research project continues until the end of the spring semester. The summer semester lasts from June through August. Students may continue with one advisor through the entire first year, or they may choose to cycle through several different research advisors from one semester to the next.

Degree Requirements

Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Code Course Title Credits
AS.171.610 Numerical Methods for Physicists 4
AS.171.618 Observational Astronomy 3
AS.171.621 Condensed Matter Physics 3
AS.171.625 Experimental Nuclear and Particle Physics 3
AS.171.632 Atomic and Optical Physics I 3
AS.171.639 Group Theory in Physics 3
AS.171.644 Exoplanets and Planet Formation 3
AS.171.646 General Relativity 3
AS.171.648 Physics of Cell Biology: From Mechanics to Information 3
AS.171.649 Astrophysical Plasmas 3
AS.171.701 Quantum Field Theory 3
AS.171.708 Gravitational Waves 3
AS.171.732 Elementary Particle Physics 3
AS.171.750 Cosmology 3
AS.171.752 Black Hole Astrophysics 3
AS.171.755 Fourier Optics and Interferometry in Astronomy 3
AS.171.785 Advanced Particle Theory: Dark Matter 3
AS.171.671 Advanced Topics in Astrobiology 3
AS.171.638 Fundamentals of Radio Astronomy 3
AS.171.749 Machine Learning for Physicists 3
AS.171.764 Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics 3

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