学位要求

哲学博士(Ph.D.)

一个被博士录取的学生的典型顺序是.D. 课程可以在录取学生页面上找到. 获得博士学位的要求.D. 学位列表如下.

• 获得博士学位.D. level passing grade on the Comprehensive Exam (CE) before the end of the second year.
• Advance to candidacy by passing the 电子游戏正规平台 Proposal Exam (RPE) within one year of passing the Comprehensive Exam.
• 通过以下电子游戏正规平台生课程
  • 经典力学
  • 统计物理I
  • 电磁理论一
  • 量子力学I
  • 数学物理I
  • 量子力学II
  • 统计物理II
  • 物理学电子游戏正规平台生研讨会I
• 通过下列四门电子游戏正规平台生课程
  • 固态I
  • 固态II
  • 实验物理技术
  • 研讨会:物理学主题
  • 系定期开设的其他选修课.
  • 其他院系不超过一门类似的电子游戏正规平台生课程.
• 完成论文电子游戏正规平台与答辩.

综合考试

The comprehensive examination is a written exam that covers all of physics that a physics graduate student can be expected to know at the end of one year of formal course work in the curriculum; however, 它会强调经典力学, 电磁, 量子力学, 以及统计物理. 考试由教师委员会准备和管理, 由主席委任, and the examination is evaluated by this committee with approval of the faculty of the department.

The examination is offered twice a year, the week before the beginning of each semester. The student must pass one of two possible attempts in order to continue in the graduate program before the end of their second year. 一个学生, 谁第一次失败了, 必须在下次考试时做第二次尝试吗. The FIRST Attempt would typically be a fall exam taken a week before the beginning of the student’s second fall semester. 如果不成功, 第二次尝试将是春季考试, 第二个春季学期开始前一周. Exceptionally well­-prepared and qualified students can make the FIRST Attempt of the exam either by arriving one week early to take a fall exam or taking a spring exam during their first year. 一个学生 choosing to do this who does not pass their first attempt must take the CE before the next semester begins.

电子游戏正规平台计划审查

综合考试合格后一年内, 学生应参加电子游戏正规平台计划考试(RPE). The purpose of this oral examination is for the student to assimilate work done in an area of research and to define a research project that addresses one or more open important questions in this area.

RPE是40分钟, public presentation followed by 20 minute of questions by the exam committee in private. The proposal should include a detailed explanation for how it proposes to address the open questions and preferably include preliminary results. The topic of the RPE will be chosen by the graduate student's research adviser and will not necessarily be the student's ultimate thesis topic. The questions will not be restricted to RPE topic but will also require the student to demonstrate some breadth. The examination will be evaluated by a committee prepared by the student’s doctoral thesis adviser and will consist of at least two additional department faculty. 这个学生最多有两次机会通过这次考试. Those who do not pass the RPE on the first try must make a second attempt within six months of this time. 学生不能升读博士学位.D. 未通过RPE的候选人资格, and after two unsuccessful attempts will not receive additional TA support from the department.

论文答辩

根据学生通过RPE的表现, 学生和他们的指导老师, 与主席协商, shall establish a doctoral thesis committee consisting of the student’s adviser who will chair the committee and at least three tenure track faculty members, 至少有两个物理系的. The committee will read and evaluate the completed thesis and conduct an open meeting at which the thesis is defended in an oral examination. The thesis is accepted when endorsed on the official title page by the Doctoral Thesis Committee after the oral examination.