Graduate course offerings

Fall 2025

Spring 2026

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