Graduate course offerings
Fall 2025
ASTR 501 - Stellar Interiors and Evolution
ASTR 561 - Student Seminar (MSc)
 ASTR 661 - Student Seminar (PhD)
PHYS 500A - Quantum Mechanics I
PHYS 502A - Classical Electrodynamics
PHYS 507A - Solid State Physics I
PHYS 515 - Data Analysis Techniques
 PHYS 534 - Radiotherapy Physics I
PHYS 540 - Medical Imaging
PHYS 545 - Anatomy and Physiology for the Medical Physicist
PHYS 550 - Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
PHYS 560 - Colloquium
PHYS 561 - Research Skills
PHYS 562 - MSc Student Seminar
PHYS 599 - MSc Thesis
PHYS 662 - Research Seminar
PHYS 693 - PhD Candidacy Examination
PHYS 699 - PhD Dissertation
Spring 2026
ASTR 507 - Stellar Archaeology
ASTR 511 - Advanced Topics: Astronomy
ASTR 561 - Student Seminar (MSc)
ASTR 661 - Student Seminar (PhD)
PHYS 522 - Topics in Accelerator Physics
PHYS 535 - Radiotherapy Physics II
PHYS 539 - Radiation Dosimetry
PHYS 544 - Topics in Radiation Biophysics
PHYS 555 - Physics & Astronomy Advanced Computing
PHYS 560 - Colloquium
PHYS 562 - MSc Student Seminar
PHYS 599 - MSc Thesis
PHYS 662 - Research Seminar
PHYS 693 - PhD Candidacy Examinations
PHYS 699 - PhD Dissertation
Directed Studies courses (ASTR 580, PHYS 580)
Directed Studies courses (ASTR 580, PHYS 580) may also be available for more specialized graduate topics. Students are advised to discuss this with their supervisor(s).
Recent PHYS/ASTR 580 topics are listed below for reference:
Introduction to Planetary Photometry
 Topics in Fluid Mechanics
 Planet Formation in Protoplanetary Disks 
 Topics in Elementary Particle Physics
 Star-Formation in the Radio Regime
 Planet-Disk Interactions: Density Wave Theory
 Magnetic Materials: Fundamentals and Applications
 Optical Modelling
 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
 Dynamical Modeling of Planet-Disk Systems
 Introductory Plasma Physics
 Topics in Cosmology
 Studies of Stellar Populations & Galaxy Formation
 Nuclear astrophysics simulation tools and methods
 Topics in Quantum Field Theory
 Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry 
 Quantum Optics and AMO Physics
 Selected Topics in Accelerator Physics
 Introduction to SRF
 Entanglement renormalization
