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    The Department of Physics offers a wide array of research opportunities for graduate students. The objective here is to help graduate students learn the specific research areas which are active in the department and who is conducting research in these areas.

    The following table summarizes the Department's main research areas and the faculty working in each area.

    Subject Specialization Contact
    Acoustics Thermoacoustics Symko
    Astrophysics Cosmology Gondolo, Kieda, Bromley, LeBohec
    Dark matter Gondolo
    Active galaxies, quasars & black holes Kieda, LeBohec, Bromley
    High-energy (X-ray, γ-ray) Kieda, LeBohec
    Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays Gondolo, Jui, Martens, Sokolsky, Springer, Mostafa
    Planet formation Bromley
    Biological/Medical Physics NMR/Hyperpolarized Noble Gases Saam
    Optical Characterization Gerton, Gellermann
    Computational Physics Astrophysics Bromley
    Particle Physics Detar
    Simulation/Modelling Detar, Jui, Bromley
    Condensed Matter (Experiment) Optical properties of polymers Vardeny, Lupton
    Photonic crystals Vardeny
    Atomic Force Microscopy Williams, Gerton
    Surface properties of solids Williams
    Near-field Optics Gerton
    Pulsed NMR/ESR Saam, Boehme
    Condensed Matter (Theory) Electronic properties of disordered systems Efros, Mattis, Raikh, Starykh, Rogachev
    High-Tc superconduction Mattis, Starykh
    Photonic crystals Efros, Raikh, Mishchenko
    Quantum Hall effect Efros, Raikh, Wu
    Spintronics Mishchenko
    Mathematical Physics Statistical mechanics, field theory Wu
    String theory Wu
    Particle Physics Lattice QCD Wu, Detar
    String Theory Wu
    Relativity Quantum gravity Kuchar
    Relativistic astrophysics Gondolo, Bromley

    Who works for whom?

    This list of graduate students will help you find out more about a research field or group.

    Go to: http://www.physics.utah.edu/people/graduate.html for graduate contact info.
    As this list is difficult to compile and update, please contact us with any corrections.
    (Updated September 20th, 2007)

    Advisor Graduate Students Fields
    Boehme Tom Herring
    Heather A Seipel
    Seoyoung Paik
    SangYun Lee
    Heng Li
    		 Pulsed NMR/ESR
    Bromley Akiko Soemori
    		 Cosmology
    Active galaxies, quasars & black holes
    Planet formation
    Astrophysics
    Simulation/Modelling
    Relativistic astrophysics
    Detar Particle Physics
    Simulation/Modelling
    Lattice QCD
    Efros Electronic properties of disordered systems
    Photonic crystals
    Quantum Hall effect
    Gellermann Optical Characterization
    Gerton Ben Mangum
    Chun Mu
    Su Liu
    		 Optical Characterization
    Atomic Force Microscopy
    Near-field Optics
    Gondolo Famin Chen
    		 Cosmology
    Dark matter
    Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Relativistic astrophysics
    Jui Doug Rodriguez
    Monica Allen
    Adam Blake
    Yulia Federova
    William Hanlon
    		 Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Simulation/Modelling
    Kieda Jose Cardoza
    Gary Finnegan
    Michelle Hui
    Josh Kaggie
    		 Cosmology
    Active galaxies, quasars & black holes
    High-energy (X-ray, γ-ray)
    Kuchar Quantum gravity
    LeBohec Pierre Collin
    Edwin Jose
    		 Cosmology
    Active galaxies, quasars & black holes
    High-energy (X-ray, γ-ray)
    Lupton Manfred Walter
    Su Liu
    Nick Borys
    Kipp Van Schooten
    		 Optical properties of polymers
    Martens Olga Brusova
    Priti Shah
    		 Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Mattis Travis Sjostrom
    Justin Peel
    		 Electronic properties of disordered systems
    High-Tc superconduction
    Mishchenko Abdel Farid
    Vladimir Zyuzin
    		 Photonic crystals
    Spintronics
    Mostafa David Thomas
    		 Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Raikh Electronic properties of disordered systems
    Photonic crystals
    Quantum Hall effect
    Rogachev Electronic properties of disordered systems
    Saam Ben Anger
    Geoff Schrank
    Eric Sorte
    		 NMR/Hyperpolarized Noble Gases
    Pulsed NMR/ESR
    Sokolsky David Thomas
    		 Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Springer Particle astrophysics/cosmic rays
    Starykh Jianmin Sun
    		 Electronic properties of disordered systems
    High-Tc superconduction
    Symko Myra Flitcroft
    Ivan Rodiguez
    Brenna Gillmann
    Bonnie McLaughlin
    Nick Webb
    		 Thermoacoustics
    Vardeny Tomer Drori
    Alexandre Ndobe
    Josh Holt
    Sanjeev Singh
    Funjian Wang
    Mohit Dewekar
    Golda Hukic
    Maria Navas
    		 Optical properties of polymers
    Photonic crystals
    Williams Jon Paul Johnson
    Dustin Winslow
    		 Atomic Force Microscopy
    Surface properties of solids
    Wu Famin Chen
    		 Quantum Hall effect
    Statistical mechanics, field theory
    String theory
    Lattice QCD
    String Theory

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