or by submitting documentation of equivalent laboratory experience,.Students may satisfy this requirement in any one of the following ways:īy taking the Laboratory Course in Contemporary Physics , The procedure is outlined under "Cross-Registration into Courses Offered by Other Faculties" in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook.Īdequate laboratory experience is a required part of the PhD program for all students who do not submit a thesis that demonstrates experimental proficiency. As a result of an exchange agreement between the universities, graduate students in physics at Harvard may also enroll in lecture courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A student need not fulfill these requirements before beginning research. The general requirements outlined above are a minimum standard and students will usually take additional courses in their selected fields and in other fields. Students wishing to utilize this option should submit a petition to the Committee on Higher Degrees before the end of their first year of Harvard graduate school. In place of demonstrating proficiency by satisfactory course performance, a student may demonstrate proficiency by an oral examination, by submitting evidence of satisfactory work in appropriate courses taken at other institutions, or by other means deemed satisfactory by the Committee on Higher Degrees. Physics-related courses at the 200-level in Earth and Planetary Sciences.Ī student may use 200-level courses or fields not on this list with the approval of the Committee on Higher Degrees. Physics-related courses at the 200-level from Biophysics and Biology offerings. Microfabrication Laboratory Īdvanced Neural Signal Processing RF and High-Speed Integrated Circuits Įlectron Microscopy Laboratory Topics in Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Laboratory Electronics, Fabrication, and Device Physics Inference, Information Theory, Learning and Statistical Mechanics Solid Mechanics įracture Mechanics ĭeformation of Solids Īdvanced Elasticity Ĭomputing Foundations for Computational Science Įxtreme Computing Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering Numerical Solution of Differential Equations įundamentals of Biological Signal Processing Practical Scientific Computing Īdvanced Scientific Computing: Stochastic Optimization Methods Įlementary Functional Analysis Introduction to Disordered Systems and Stochastic Processes Mechanics, Electromagnetism, and Applied Mathematics:Īdvanced Machine Learning ĭata Analysis for Physicists Īdvanced Electromagnetism (if Applied Physics 216 or Engineering Sciences 273 is used as a core course) General Relativity, Cosmology, and Other Topics Optics and Photonics (if Physics 232 or Applied Physics 216 is used as a core course) Modern Optics and Quantum Electronics (if Physics 232 or Engineering Sciences 273 is used as a core course)Īpplications of Modern Optics Topics in the Physics of Quantum Information Topics in Experimental Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics Quantum Technology Ĭomputational Design of Materials Įlectrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials Ītomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics: Materials Chemistry and Physics: Seminar Introduction to Quantum Theory of Solids Mesoscopic Physics and Quantum Information Processing Topics in Bose-Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity Ĭlassical and Quantum Phase Transitions Group Theory with Application to Particle Physics Phenomena of Elementary Particle Physics Relativistic Quantum Mechanics with Applications Particle Physics, Field Theory, String Theory, and Mathematical Physics: Students therefore should occasionally confer with their advisors or with the chair of the Committee on Higher Degrees about their programs of study.
Note: not all courses listed are given every year, and course offerings, numbers, and contents sometimes change. įour additional half-courses drawn from the following list, with at most two half-courses in any one field. and Statistical Physics or Statistical Thermodynamics.and Advanced Electromagnetism or Modern Optics and Quantum Electronics or Optics and Photonics.(Note that courses cannot double count.)Īdvanced Quantum Mechanics I or Quantum Field Theory I or Quantum Field Theory II or Modern Atomic and Optical Physics I or Modern Atomic and Optical Physics II or Introduction to Quantum Theory of Solids or Quantum Theory of Solids Each student is required to demonstrate proficiency in a broad range of fields of physics by obtaining honor grades (B- or better) in at least eight half-courses: a minimum of four core courses and an additional four elective courses.