Wake Forest University Physics Graduate

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109-7507 http://www.physics.wfu.edu/

General University Information GRE requirements President: Nathan O. Hatch The GRE is required. Dean of Graduate School: Bradley T. Jones, Dean Quantitative score: 160 University website: http://www.wfu.edu/ Verbal score: 150 School Type: Private Analytical score: 3.5 Setting: Suburban Mean GRE score range (25th–75th percentile): 1200-1370 Total Faculty: 1,700 These minimum values are only guides. Meeting them does not Total Graduate Faculty: 550 assure admission, not meeting them does not prevent ad- Total number of Students: 8,116 mission. International students have sometimes lower verbal Total number of Graduate Students: 3,014 and analytical writing scores. Subjective GRE requirements Department Information The Subjective GRE is recommended. Department Chairman: Dr. Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, Chair Minimum accepted Advanced GRE score: 640 Department Contact: Melissa Mitchell, Administrative Mean Advanced GRE score range (25th–75th percentile): 660- Assistant 870 Total full-time faculty:17 These minimum values are just guides. Meeting them does not assure Total number of full-time equivalent positions:20 admission, not meeting them does not prevent admission. Full-Time Graduate Students:30 TOEFL requirements Female Full-Time Graduate Students:9 The TOEFL exam is required for students from non-English- First-Year Graduate Students:10 speaking countries. Female First-Year Students:3 PBT score: 575 Total Post Doctorates:5 iBT score:79 Computer-based TOEFL: 217 International English Language Department Address Testing System (IELTS): 6.5 1834 Wake Forest Road Other admissions information P.O. Box 7507 Additional requirements: The verbal and analytical GRE scores Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507 quoted above are for domestic students. Occasionally, interna- Phone: ͑336͒ 758-5337 tional students with lower verbal and analytical GRE scores Fax: ͑336͒ 758-6142 may be admitted. E-mail: [email protected] A minimum quantitative GRE score of 700 is required for Website: http://www.physics.wfu.edu/ domestic and international students. Quantitative GRE scores are frequently well above 700. ADMISSIONS Undergraduate preparation assumed: Mechanics—Symon, Me- chanics; Electricity and Magnetism—Griffiths, Introduction to Elec- Admission Contact Information trodynamics; Quantum Mechanics—Gasiorowicz, Quantum Address admission inquiries to: Dean of Graduate School, Wake Physics; Thermodynamics—Kittel and Kroemer, Thermal Physics. Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Phone: ͑336͒ 758-5301 TUITION E-mail: [email protected] Tuition year 2018–19: Admissions website: http://graduate.wfu.edu/admissions/ Full-time students: $38,650 annual onlineapp.html Part-time students: $19,325 per semester Application deadlines Usually, all admitted PhD students will receive a full tuition Fall admission: waiver and a stipend. Master’s students will typically receive U.S. students: January 15 Int’l. students: January 15 an 80% tuition waiver. Spring admission: Credit hours per semester to be considered full-time:9 U.S. students: November 1 Int’l. students: November 1 Deferred tuition plan: Yes Health insurance: Yes, variable. Application fee Other academic fees: Health insurance is available for purchase. Stu- U.S. students: $80 Int’l. students: $80 dents under the age of 26 may be covered by parents’ insurance. Typically 10-15 students are admitted, of which about 5-8 enroll. Free satellite parking (plus shuttle) is available. Limited $300 near- Admissions information campus parking and $500 on-campus parking is available. For Fall of 2018: Academic term: Semester Number of applicants:40 Number of first-year students who received full tuition waivers:8 Number admitted:15 Number of first-year students who received partial tuition waivers:2 Number enrolled:10 Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Admission requirements and Fellowships Bachelor’s degree requirements: A Bachelor’s degree in Physics Number of first-year is required. Teaching Assistants:8 Minimum undergraduate GPA: 3.0 Fellowship students:1

Average stipend per academic year GRADUATE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS Teaching Assistant: $23,193 Master’s: Thirty semester hours of graduate credit; of those, at Research Assistant: $23,193 least 24 credits must be classes or seminars, and 6 credits Fellowship student: $25,193 can be research. Twelve credits hours must be at the 700 level. Research Assistantships and some Teaching Assistantships Courses must include Phys 711, 712, 741 (Math Methods & may receive a summer bonus for a total stipend up to $25,000. Classical Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics- Physics Excellence Fellows receive an extra stipend of $2,000 I). Participation at the departmental seminar is required. Min- annually for five years. imum of 12 months full-time in residence. An oral defense of the thesis and a 3.0 average on courses are required. Doctorate: Courses must include Physics 711, 712, 741, 742, FINANCIAL AID and 770 (Math Methods & Classical Mechanics, Electrody- namics, Quantum Mechanics-I and -II, Statistical Physics) and Application deadlines three more elective courses at the 600 or 700 level (of which Fall admission: one must be in Physics). A written General Exam at the level U.S. students: January 15 Int’l. students: January 15 of material normally covered in the first year of graduate study Spring admission: serves as the preliminary examination. Within 18 months of U.S. students: November 15 Int’l. students: November 15 completing the preliminary examination, the students submits Loans to her/his advisory committee and defends orally a disser- Loans are available for U.S. students. tation research plan. An oral defense of the dissertation, and Loans are not available for international students. a 3.0 average on courses are required. GAPSFAS application required:No Thesis: Thesis may be written in absentia. FAFSA application required:No SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, OR PROGRAMS For further information Address financial aid inquiries to: Dean of the Graduate School, Wake Forest is among the top 10% of tier-1 national doctoral Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston universities (US News and World Report), despite its small size. Salem, NC 27109. We take pride in being able to provide the personal attention Phone: ͑336͒ 758-5301 of a liberal arts college and having significant resources that are E-mail: [email protected] usually associated with a large research university. Financial aid website: https://graduate.wfu.edu/cost-financial- The research in our department is focused on the following areas: aid-reynolda/ experimental and computational biophysics; atomic, molecular and optical physics; experimental and computational condensed matter physics; computational and theoretical relativity and grav- HOUSING itation; medical and health physics; and nanophysics. All research laboratories contain state-of-the-art instrumentation; com- Availability of on-campus housing putational physicists have access to the large deacon cluster. Single students:No Married students:No Table B—Separately Budgeted Research Expenditures Childcare Assistance:No by Source of Support For further information Address housing inquiries to: Residence Housing, P.O. Box Departmental Physics-related Research Source of Support Research Outside Department 7749, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC 27109. Phone: ͑336͒ 758-7777 Federal government $1,040,442.05 $310,860.16 State/local government E-mail: [email protected] Non-profit organizations $11,902.2 Housing aid website: http://rlh.wfu.edu/ Business and industry $20,219.29 Other $252,736.96 $294,188.81

Table A—Faculty, Enrollments, and Degrees Granted Total $1,325,300.5 $605,048.97

Number of Degrees Enrollment Granted Table C—Separately Budgeted Research Expenditures Fall 2017 2017–18 (2013–18) by Research Specialty 2017–18 Mas- Doc- Mas- Terminal Doc- Research Specialty No. of Grants Expenditures ($) Research Specialty Faculty ter’s torate ter’s Master’s torate Biophysics 6 $534,733.65 Atomic, Molecular, & Condensed Matter Physics 14 $879,532.92 Optical Physics 2 – 3 – –(1) 1(3) Nano Science and Technology 3 $466,114.68 Biophysics 6 2 7 – 1(1) 2(9) Optics 1 $23,115.86 Condensed Matter Relativity & Gravitation 1 $25,857.36 Physics 5 1 8 –(1) –(2) 3(12) Medical, Health Physics 3 – 1 – – –(4) Total 25 $1,929,354.47 Nano Science and Technology 2 1 3 – 1(1) 2(7) Relativity & Gravitation 3 – 4 – – –(1) FACULTY Total 14 4 27 –(1) 2(5) 8(36) Chair Professor Full-time Grad. Stud. –226–– – First-year Grad. Stud. ––6–– – Kim-Shapiro, Daniel, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1993. Director, Translational Science Center. Biophysics. Un-

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derstanding how blood flow is regulated, particularly by nitric Research Associate Professor oxide, nitrite and other nitrogen oxides. Various forms of Basu, Swati, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spectroscopy, using light (including polarized light) to learn 1994. Understanding how blood flow is regulated, particularly about biological structure and function. by nitric oxide, nitrite and other nitrogen oxides. Various forms of spectroscopy, using light (including polarized light) Professor to learn about biological structure and function. (Works in Anderson, Paul R., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Bar- the lab of Prof. Kim-Shapiro). Biophysics. Prof. Basu is work- bara, 1983. Relativity & Gravitation. General relativity; quan- ing in Prof. Kim-Shapiro’s group. tum field theory in curved space. Ucer, K. Burak, Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1997. Atomic, Bonin, Keith D., Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1984. Depart- Molecular, & Optical Physics, Optics. Ultrafast lasers and ment Chair. Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics, Bio- spectroscopy. physics, Nano Science and Technology, Optics. Atomic phys- Teaching Associate Professor ics; nanophysics; biophysics; optics. Carroll, David L., Ph.D., Wesleyan University, 1993. Director, Dostal, Jack, Ph.D., Montana State University, 2009. Lecturer. Nanotechnology Center. Nano Science and Technology. Physics and other Science Education. Physics education. Nanostructures and nanotechnology. Adjunct Professor Guthold, Martin, Ph.D., University of Oregon, 1997. Director of Physics graduate program. Biophysics, Nano Science and Bourland, J. Daniel, Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Med- Technology. Biophysics. ical, Health Physics. Radiation oncology. Holzwarth, Natalie A. W., Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975. Santago, Peter, Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 1986. Condensed Matter Physics. Theoretical solid state physics; Chair, Computer Science. Computer Science, Medical, Health electronic structure of bulk solids, surfaces, and molecules. Physics. Image enhancement. Macosko, Jed, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999. Adjunct Assistant Professor Biophysics. Biophysics of molecular motors and biopolymers. Hall, Adam, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Matthews, Eric G., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1977. 2007. Biophysics, Nano Science and Technology. Nanopores, Associate Provost of Information Systems. Condensed Matter Nanobiotechnology. Physics. Thermally stimulated depolarization of defects in in- sulators; ab initio calculations of defect properties. Salsbury, Fred, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1999. DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH SPECIALTIES AND Undergraduate Advisor. Director, Interdisciplinary Program STAFF in Structural and Computational Biophysics. Biophysics, Computational Physics. Computational biophysics. Theoretical Biophysics. Computational and theoretical biophysics, compu- Associate Professor tational systems biology, protein structure/function relation- Carlson, Eric, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1988. Astrophysics, ships, biological network modeling, signal transduction net- Particles and Fields, Relativity & Gravitation. Astrophysics work modeling, molecular physics, drug discovery. Cho, and particle physics. Salsbury. Cho, Samuel, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2007. Condensed Matter Physics. Computational materials physics: Biophysics, Computational Physics, Computer Science. Com- simulation and prediction of energy storage materials, de- putational biophysics, protein and RNA folding, biomolecular velopment of “first principles” simulation methods, con- assembly, molecular machines, GPU-based programming. densed matter theory, semi-classical electron dynamics, Berry Cook, Gregory B., Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1990. phase effects, nonlinearity, computational and theoretical ma- Undergraduate Advisor. Astrophysics, Relativity & Gravita- terials science, condensed matter physics, solid state physics, tion. General relativity and relativistic astrophysics. density functional theory, first-principles calculations, NMR, Jurchescu, Oana, Ph.D., University of Groningen, Netherlands, van der Waals forces, magnetization. Natalie Holzwarth, Kerr, 2006. Condensed Matter Physics, Nano Science and Technol- Matthews, Thonhauser. ogy. Nanostructures and nanotechnology. Gravitational. Gravitational physics, general relativity, numerical Thonhauser, Timo, Ph.D., Karl-Franzens University, Austria, relativity, black holes, neutron stars, compact binaries, initial 2001. Computational Physics, Condensed Matter Physics. data, gravitational waves, quantum field theory in curved Density functional theory. space, particle physics. Anderson, Carlson, Cook. Experimental Emeritus Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics. Electron spin resonance in irradiated organic solids, transport properties, semiconduc- Shields, Howard, Ph.D., Duke University, 1956. Biophysics. Bio- tor trapping centers, laser materials, ultrafast spectroscopy, physics, EPR, (working in the lab of Prof. Kim-Shapiro). excitons, scintillators, energy research, optics, optical trapping, mechanical effects of light, optogenetics, optical micros- Research Professor copy. Bonin, Ucer, Williams. Holzwarth, George M., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964. Bio- Biophysics. Optics, optical trapping, mechanical effects of light, physics. Physical properties of normal and cancerous cells, optogenetics, optical microscopy, motor proteins, kinesin, op- dependence of cell growth on substrate properties. tical and electron paramagnetic spectroscopy, hemoglobin, ni- Kerr, William C., Ph.D., Cornell University, 1967. Statistical tric oxide, nitrite, sickle cell disease, cardiovascular disease, & Thermal Physics. Theoretical solid-state and statistical nanobiotechnology, atomic force and optical microscopy, sin- physics; structural phase transitions. gle molecule experiments, protein-DNA interactions, throm- Williams, Richard T., Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974. Atomic, bosis and hemostasis, nanofibers, electrospinning, tissue engi- Molecular, & Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, neering, drug discovery, Center for Translational Science. Optics. Femtosecond laser studies of defects and electrons in Basu, Bonin, Guthold, Hall, George Holzwarth, Kim-Shapiro, solids. Macosko, Shields.

Condensed Matter Physics. Organic and flexible electronics, structures, solar cells, biofuels, batteries, high-efficiency or- transport properties, semiconductor trapping centers, laser ganic transistors, new lighting systems, antibiotic resistance, materials, ultrafast spectroscopy, excitons, scintillators, en- wound healing, tissue regeneration. Carroll, Jurchescu. ergy research. Carroll, Jurchescu, Ucer, Williams. Nano Science and Technology. Nanostructures and nanotechnol- Energy Sources & Environment. The Center is engaged in a ogy, nanomotors, solar cells, meta materials and negative in- broad range of projects from the development of medical tech- dex materials, organic electronics, thin-film transistors, field- nologies, to green energy technologies, to the understanding effect transistors, organic semiconductors, single crystals, of the environmental and ethical implications of such nano- microstructure. Bonin, Carroll, Guthold, George Holzwarth, based technologies, material design and synthesis, carbon Jurchescu, Macosko. nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, polymers, cage

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