PHYS 8990 Options
All first-year PhD-seeking graduate students are required to take two semesters of PHYS 8990, Introduction to Research. In this course, the student spends one half of each semester doing a research project under the supervision of a faculty member. Each semester the student will choose and rank order four projects from the current list of available projects. We attempt to match the assigned projects to the students' interests as much as possible:
- We will endeavor to assign each student to at least one of his/her two first choices and to two of the four choices.
- Occasionally, a student will have to be assigned to a maximum of one project outside his/her four choices.
- We will guarantee that every student will have at least one project per semester from his/her four choices.
- If the student does not get two assignments from his/her four choices in the first semester, then he/she is guaranteed to get two assignments from his/her four choices in the second semester.
- Students who do not submit choices will be assigned to projects by the Graduate Coordinator.
Spring
2007 choices: Students planning to enroll in PHYS 8990 may now make
choices from the list of projects shown below. After carefully
reviewing the projects, rank order your first four choices, note the
"key" for each, and proceed to the choice
page. Please do not choose more than one project from any given
supervisor and do not choose projects from supervisors with whom you have
already worked in an earlier semester.
