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Vanderbilt University
| Research specialty | Degree type | |
| PhD (Theoretical/Experimental) |
Master's (Final degree/Enroute to PhD) |
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| Astronomy | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Astrophysics | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics | Experimental | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Biophysics | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Computational Physics | Theoretical | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Condensed Matter Physics | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| High Energy Physics | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Medical, Health Physics | Experimental | Both |
| Nano Science and Technology | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Nuclear Physics | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Optics | Experimental | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Particles and Fields | Both | Enroute-to-PHD |
| Theoretical Physics | Theoretical | Enroute-to-PHD |
THEORETICAL
EXPERIMENTAL
Astronomy
Large-scale structure; galactic dynamics; black holes; gravitational waves; cosmology.
Andreas Berlind, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Robert Scherrer
Biophysics
Mathematical modeling of biological systems and processes; early organismal development; decision-making.
William Holmes
Condensed Matter Physics
Equilibrium atomic configurations and atomic-scale dynamics of bulk defects, surfaces, and interfaces; growth process; grain boundary dynamics; interaction of radiation with materials; many-body effects in nanostructures; ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated systems.
Sokrates Pantelides, Kalman Varga
Cosmology & String Theory
Dark matter; dark energy; primordial nucleosynthesis; physics of the early universe.
Thomas Kephart, Robert Scherrer, Momchil Velkovsky, Thomas Weiler
High Energy Physics
Electroweak symmetry breaking; supersymmetry; unification of forces; super-strings; cosmology and particle astrophysics; highest-energy cosmic rays; particle and dark matter phenomenology.
Thomas Kephart, Thomas Weiler
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear structure; intermediate-energy and high-energy nuclear reactions; hadronic structure; supernovae modeling; neutron oscillation, phenomenology
David Ernst, Sait Umar
Astronomy
Star formation; proto-planetary disks; planetary nebula; exoplanet detection (TESS); observational x-ray, visible, infrared and sub-millimeter wave astrophysics.
Erika Grundstrom, Robert O'Dell, Keivan Stassun, David Weintraub
Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics
Interactions of ions, atoms, electrons, and synchrotron and laser photons with surfaces, interfaces, and thin films, with emphasis on electronic processes; carrier and spin dynamics; damage processes; desorption induced by electronic transitions; quantum interference effects; modification of surface electronic structure.
William Gabella, John Gore, Richard Haglund, Norman Tolk
Biophysics
Action potential propagation, shock response, and nonlinear dynamics in excitable system such as cardiac and smooth muscle; magnetic imaging of bioelectric currents, magnetic markers, and remanent geomagnetism; laser-tissue interactions; cellular development; differentiation morphogenesis; fluorescence imaging; instrumenting and controlling single cells; membrane transporters and channels.
John Gore, M. Hutson, Erin Rericha, Dina Stroud, John Wikswo
Condensed Matter Physics
Growth and characterization of nanostructures; electrophoretic deposition; magnetic and luminescent nanocrystals; carbon nanotubes; graphene.
Richard Haglund, Anthony Hmelo, Sokrates Pantelides, Norman Tolk, Yaqiong Xu
High Energy Physics
CMS experiment at CERN.
Senta Greene, Will Johns, Paul Sheldon, Julia Velkovska
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear structure; Coulomb excitation; fission processes; in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy of heavy-ion reactions; isotope separator and recoil mass spectrometer work to study nuclei far from line of stability; behavior of nuclear matter at extreme temperatures; relativistic heavy ion physics at RHIC and CERN; the search for the quark gluon plasma and the colored glass condensate.
Senta Greene, Joseph Hamilton, Akunuri Ramayya, Julia Velkovska