Graduate Courses

Graduate Students should consult with their special committee in choosing courses. Guidelines can be found in the “yellow book”.

General descriptions of the courses can be found in the course catalog, and scheduling information in the course/time roster. Links to individual course web sites follow.

Please note that for courses using Blackboard, we cannot link directly to the site: you must first create a username and password and log on to Blackboard, then enroll in the specific course you are interested in. After you have done that, each time you log on, all the courses you are enrolled in will be shown on your Blackboard homepage. We have linked Blackboard courses here to the main BB Physics listing page. Some courses are not listed on this page, though, so if you don’t find the course you are looking for, please search using “PhysXXX”.

Physics 6510: Advanced Experimental Physics

Physics 6546: Biological Applications of Physics

Physics 6553: General Relativity

Physics 6554: General Relativity

Physics 6561: Classical Electrodynamics

Physics 6562: Statistical Physics

Physics 6572: Quantum Mechanics I
Please note: To find this course for the first time, you must search for “quantum mechanics”.

Physics 6599: Cosmology

Physics 6574: Quantum Mechanics II

Physics 7635: Solid State Physics I

Physics 7636: Advanced Solid State Physics

Physics 7645: Particle Physics

Physics 7646: High Energy Particle Physics

Physics 7651: Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Physics 7652: Quantum Field Theory

Physics 7653: Statistical Physics

Physics 7654: Basic Training in Condensed Matter Theory
Some modules of this survey course may be appropriate for first year students and experimentalists.

Physics 7656: Introduction to Accelerator Physics and Technology

Physics 7661: Advanced Topics in High-Energy Particle Physics

Physics 7667: Stellar Structure and Evolution

Physics 7680: Computational Physics

Physics 7681: Quantum Information Processing

Physics 7682: Computational Methods for Nonlinear Systems

Physics 7683: Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime

Physics 7684: Teaching and Learning Physics

Physics 7688: Advanced Topics in Accelerator Physics