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The MIT physics graduate program application form

We have also compiled a list of graduate student contacts, and their interests. Please make use of this resource and feel free to contact them!

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PHYSICS DEPARTMENT DIVISIONS

ASTROPHYSICS

The astrophysics division is closely affiliated with the Center for Space Research. Facilities and research groups include:

• Chandra X-ray Observatory
• HETE (High Energy Transient Explorer)
• the George R. Wallace Jr. Astrophysical Observatory
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) (the Gravitation and Cosmology Research Group)
• the Magellan Optical Observatory
• the MIT Haystack Radio Observatory
• RXTE (Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer), and here.
• Space Plasma Group

  CONDENSED MATTER, ATOMIC AND BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS

  The many groups that work in this area are mostly divided between:

• Condensed Matter Theory
• the Center for Materials Science and Engineering
• the Research Laboratory for Electronics (Atomic Molecular and Optical, Plasma, Quantum-effect Devices, Surfaces and Interfaces)
• Biophysics group of Professor van Oudenaarden
• the Spectroscopy Laboratory

  Facilities available include:

• the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory
• the Neutron and Synchrotron X-ray Scattering Facilities at Brookhaven National Laboratory

  LABORATORY FOR NUCLEAR SCIENCE

  The Laboratory for Nuclear Science is a very large entity! Along with the Center for Theoretical Physics, here are some of the other faces of the lab:

• the Bates Linear Accelerator Center
• Electromagnetic Interactions Group/AMS
• HERMES
• Lepton-Quark Studies
• Nuclear Interactions Group
• Particle Physics Collaboration
• Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (Phobos)
• Neutrino Physics

  PLASMA PHYSICS

A fairly extensive list of research centers connected with MIT physics can be found here.

Here are also some MIT research centers.

GRADUATE STUDENT CONTACTS

• Edward Boyce (Australia) Observational astrophysics, High redshift quasars and cosmology
• Nat Butler Observational high energy astrophysics, Gamma ray bursts HETE satellite

  ATOMIC PHYSICS

• Gretchen Campbell Experimental Atomic Physics, Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Bonna Newman Experimental atomic physics, Optical frequency metrology of ultracold hydrogen

  BIOPHYSICS

  CONDENSED MATTER

• Gary Steele (Canada) Experimental condensed matter physics, Cryogenic STM/SCM in highly correlated electron systems. Gary's web page
• Darius Torchinsky Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Energetic Materials Under High Pressure and Shock Loading (working in the group of Keith Nelson in the Chemistry Department)
• Maria Chan (Hong Kong) Computational Materials Science, electronic structures, density functional theory.

  EXPERIMENTAL PARTICLE PHYSICS

  MEDICAL PHYSICS

• Michael Ohliger Biophysics, now working at the Health Sciences and Technology Center

  PLASMA PHYSICS

• James Dorris Experimental plasma physics, Magnetic influence of RF Breakdown
• Jing Zhou (China)Plasma Physics Theory

  THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS