CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079 http://physics.cwru.edu General University Information TOEFL requirements President: Barbara Snyder The TOEFL exam is required for students from non-English- Dean of Graduate School: Charles E. Rozek speaking countries. University website: http://www.cwru.edu PBT score: 557 Control: Private iBT score:90 Setting: Urban Other admissions information Total Faculty: 2,745 Additional requirements: No minimum acceptable GRE score is Total number of Students: 9,837 specified. Total number of Graduate Students: 5,610 Undergraduate preparation assumed: Taylor, Classical Mechan- ics; Griffiths, Electrodynamics; Kittel, Thermal Physics; Grif- Department Information fiths, Quantum Mechanics; or equivalent textbooks; one or Department Chairman: Kathleen Kash, Chair two years of advanced laboratory courses. Department Contact: Corbin E. Covault, Director of the Graduate Program Total full-time faculty:25 TUITION Total number of full-time equivalent positions:22 Tuition year 2012–13: Full-Time Graduate Students:60 Tuition for out-of-state residents First-Year Graduate Students:12 Full-time students: $27,828 annual Female First-Year Students:3 Part-time students: $1,546 per credit Total Post Doctorates:15 Credit hours per semester to be considered full-time:9 Deferred tuition plan: Yes Department Address Health insurance: Available at the cost of $1,452 per year. Rockefeller Building Academic term: Semester 2076 Adelbert Road Number of first-year students who receive full tuition waivers:12 Cleveland, OH 44106-7079 Teaching Assistants, Research Assistants, Phone: (216) 368-4000 and Fellowships Fax: (216) 368-4671 E-mail: [email protected] Number of first-year Teaching Assistants Website: http://physics.cwru.edu :10 Research Assistants:2 Average stipend per academic year ADMISSIONS Teaching Assistant: $22,860 Research Assistant: $22,860 Admission Contact Information Fellowship student: $22,860 Address admission inquiries to: Admissions Director, Physics E-mail: [email protected] Admissions website: http://www.phys.case.edu/grad/apply.php FINANCIAL AID Application deadlines Fall admission: Application deadlines U.S. students: January 15 Int’l. students: January 15 Fall admission: U.S. students: January 15 Application fee U.S. students:$8 Loans With rare exceptions, first-year students are not admitted for the Loans are available for U.S. students. spring semester beginning in January. Transfer students who Loans are available for international students. intend to matriculate in January are treated on a case-by-case GAPSFAS application required:No basis. FAFSA application required:No Admissions information For further information For Fall of 2012: Address financial aid inquiries to: Director of Admissions. Number of applicants: 179 E-mail: [email protected] Number admitted:54 Number enrolled:12 HOUSING Admission requirements Bachelor’s degree requirements: Bachelor’s degree in physics, Availability of on-campus housing mathematics, or related field is required. Single students:No Minimum undergraduate GPA: 3.0 Married students:No GRE requirements For further information The GRE is required. Address housing inquiries to: Dean, Graduate Studies. Advanced GRE requirements Housing aid website: http://gradstudies.case.edu/prospect/area/ The Advanced GRE is required. housing.html Graduate Programs in Physics, Astronomy, and Related Fields (ISBN: 978-0-7354-1074-9) ©2013 American Institute of Physics 553 Ohio Case Western Reserve U., Phys. Table A—Faculty, Enrollments, and Degrees Granted A wide range of facilities is available in surface physics and in optics. Among the collaborative programs are experimental and Number of Degrees theoretical studies of phase transitions in polymers and of liquid Enrollment Granted crystals, photovoltaic materials, surface physics, the physics of Spring 2012 2011 (2005—11) imaging, fluid physics, dark matter detection, and measurements 2011–12 Mas- Doc- Mas- Terminal Doc- of fundamental parameters in cosmology. Research Specialty Faculty ter’s torate ter’s Master’s torate Applied Physics 2 1 4 1(5) – 0(6) Departmental computing facilities are extensive and are used in Astrophysics 7 1 16 0(9) 2(1) 1(15) both research and courses. Weekly specialized seminars in particle/ Atomic, Molecular, & astrophysics and condensed matter physics take place, in addition Optical Physics 5–––– 1 to a weekly departmental colloquium. Biophysics 2 – 1 – – 0(1) Condensed Matter The Physics Department has been recognized six times by the Physics 10 – 17 2(22) 0(3) 3(16) U.S. Dept. of Education as meeting vital national needs. Special Fluids, Rheology 2 – – – – 1(1) graduate fellowships are available. Low Temperature Physics 1 – 1 0(2) – 0(2) In addition to a traditional physics program, the Department Medical, Health Physics 2 – – – 3(22) – maintains a Physics Entrepreneurship Masters degree program. Nano Science and The program is designed to empower physicists as entrepreneurs Technology 8 – 4 – – 1(2) and to enable students and graduates to build on their physics Optics 10 – 5 3(10) – 0(4) skills to start new high-tech businesses or to launch new product Polymer Physics/Science 4 – 1 – – 0(1) lines in existing companies. Relativity & Gravitation 4 – 4 – – 0(2) Special Programs Statistical & Thermal Physics 4–––– – Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astro- Surface Physics 3 – 1 – – 0(2) physics: A new center created in collaboration with the Cleve- Non-specialized –2––– – land Museum of Natural History’s Shafran Planetarium and Other 0–––– – CWRU’s Astronomy Department to promote research and educa- tion in cosmology and astrophysics. http://cerca.case.edu Total 22 4 54 2(48) 3(26) 4(54) Full-time Grad. Stud. –454–– – Institute for Advanced Materials: The Institute for Advanced First-year Grad. Stud. –112–– – Materials brings together internationally recognized faculty re- searchers to engage in multi-disciplinary efforts on a broad range of materials that not only are ubiquitous in everday life, but are cornerstones to many key technology areas. Specifically, IAM GRADUATE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS focuses on strategic research that impacts national needs in hu- Master’s: 27 graduate credit hours in approved program in- man health, energy, and the environment. The four focus areas cluding six required hours; Master’s exam required; thesis op- are: Fundamental Materials Research, Materials for Human tion; no residence or language requirement. Health, Materials for Energy, and Materials for Sustainability. Doctorate: Up to 36 hours of coursework is required (may be http://iam.case.edu reduced by graduate coursework done elsewhere); compre- hensive and topical exams, dissertation, and dissertation exam The Institute for the Science of Origins ISO is a collaborative required; one year residency; no language exam required. See team of faculty members and researchers from diverse scientific http://www.phys.cwru.edu/grad/phd.php. disciplines seeking to understand how complex systems emerge Thesis: Thesis may be written in absentia. and evolve, from the universe to the mind, from microbes to hu- manity http://www.case.edu/origins The Michelson Postdoctoral Lectureship is an annual prize SPECIAL EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES, OR PROGRAMS sponsored by Case Western Reserve University. It is awarded A wide variety of facilities and programs is available within the to an outstanding recent Physics Ph.D. based on an international department, and in addition there are collaborative programs with competition. The winner spends one week in residence in the other departments, including Macromolecular Science, Chem- Department, and delivers several seminars and a departmental istry, Astronomy, Materials Science, and the Medical School. colloquium on his/her research. In astrophysics research, experiments in collaboration with other Physics Entrepreneurship Masters Degree: To empower phys- universities are being performed to determine the nature of el- icists as entrepreneurs and enable graduate students to build on ementary particle dark matter in the universe by direct detection their physics skills to start new high-tech businesses or to launch in underground detectors, while other experiments are performed new product lines in existing companies. to search for high-energy gamma rays and to explore the Cosmic Microwave Background. High-energy physics experiments are Workshops and Conferences: The Department regularly holds undertaken at various National Laboratories. Theoretical work national and international meetings on a variety of topics. Recent on astrophysics and cosmology, as well as particle, condensed conferences have included: The Future of Cosmology, Future matter physics, and quantum computing, covers a large number Physics and Future Facilities, The Cosmic Microwave Back- of research topics. ground, Great Lakes Cosmology Workshop, the American Vac- uum Society Conference, International Workshop on MRI, Ein- Condensed matter studies include measurements of dielectric; op- stein’s Legacy, and Confronting Gravity. tical and nonlinear optical properties; thin-film properties; nano- scopic physics; quantum computing; liquid crystal and complex Outreach: The Department works with high school teachers and fluid properties; semiconductor crystal growth; quantum wells, students to improve science education locally and nationally. The wires, and dots; other nanoscopic structures; spintronics; organic Department also hosts a web site of a national program