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Faculty and Fields of Interest

Bisagni, James J Professor of Physics and Marine Science and Technology (1997 ) , BS 1972 University of New York at Stony Brook, MS 1976, PhD 1991 University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. Specializations: Physical oceanography, satellite oceanography.

Crawford, Renate (Chairperson, Department of Physics) Associate Professor of Physics (1996), BS 1990, MA 1991, PhD 1993 Kent State University. Specializations: Experimental liquid crystals, condensed matter, physics education and outreach.

Gangopadhyay, Avijit Associate Professor of Physics and Marine Science and Technology (1997), BTech 1979 Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, MTech 1982 Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, PhD 1990 University of Rhode Island. Specializations: Physical oceanography, numerical modeling, climate studies.

Hirshfeld, Alan Professor of Physics (1978), BA 1973 Princeton University, MS 1975, PhD 1978 Yale University. Specializations: Astrophysics, observational astronomy.

Horch, Elliott (Graduate Program Director) Assistant Professor of Physics (2002), BA 1987 University of Chicago, MS 1989 Yale University, PhD 1994 Stanford University. Specializations: Observational astronomy, astrophysics, astronomical imaging systems.

Hsu, Jong-Ping Chancellor Professor of Physics (1978), BS 1962 National Taiwan University, MS 1965 National Tsing-Hwa University, PhD 1969 University of Rochester. Specializations: Symmetry principles and gauge field theories.

Gaurav Khanna
Assistant Professor of Physics (2003), BTech 1995 Indian Institute of Technology, PhD 2003 Penn State University. Specializations: Theoretical and computational astrophysics, black hole astrophysics, gravitational waves, quantum gravity, high performance computing, control and dynamical system theory.

O’Reilly, Grant Assistant Professor of Physics (2002), BS 1986 University of Melbourne, PhD 1997 University of Melbourne. Specializations: Photonuclear physics at intermediate energies, few-body systems, pion photo productions, fundamental nuclear symmetries.

Tandon, Amit Associate Professor of Physics and Marine Science and technology (1999), BTech 1987 Indian Institute of Technology, PhD 1992 Cornell University. Specializations: Fluid dynamics, physical oceanography, environmental and computational physics.

Wang, Jay (Jianyi) Associate Professor of Physics (1998), BSc 1983 Lanzhou University, China, PhD 1992 University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Specializations: Theory and simulations of electronic, atomic and optical processes, ion-solids and ion-surface interactions, computational physics.

Zarrillo, Marguerite Associate Professor of Physics (1998), BS 1978 Purdue University, MS 1981 University of Illinois, PhD 1998 University of Central Florida. Specializations: Traffic flow modeling, intelligent transportation systems, highway capacity.

The Physics Master of Science program is open to full-time as well as part-time students who are planning to pursue careers in physics research or teaching, or in applied areas of industrial research and development. The part-time option is attractive for students who are already professionally active as physics teachers. In addition, the university offers an international exchange program for a year of study abroad at universities in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

The program is designed to advance students’ understanding of the concepts of modern and classical physics as well as their mastery of applying these concepts to solve practical problems. Under the guidance of a graduate advisor, all students follow a course of study that is in harmony with their background and individual goals. The size of the fosters close and informal contact between students and faculty active in research. These personal contacts enable graduate students to keep abreast of current problems in physics and offers them the opportunity to participate in original research.

The Physics Department offers a range of graduate courses in classical mechanics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, physical oceanography, condensed matter physics, and advanced mathematical physics. The department also offers courses emphasizing research including thesis research as well as independent study courses on special topics. There is also advanced laboratory instruction in experimental techniques, including electronic instrumentation, computer interfacing and data analysis. Graduate students are encouraged to participate in ongoing faculty research program s in theoretical physics, physical oceanography, optics, liquid crystals, and astronomy. In addition, research projects in physics education are available for students pursuing a teaching career. Students interested in applied areas of physics or in closely related fields such as computer science or electrical and computer engineering can take graduate courses and obtain research projects in those areas as well.

The physics background and expertise acquired by students at UMass Dartmouth has enabled many to continue their studies at premier research universities in the US and abroad. Others have embarked on careers in teaching or in applied areas like nuclear power, communications, materials science, computer or electrical engineering, and computer software.

Careers of our graduates as professional physicists are remarkably broad in scope. The majority of physics students who obtained their MS degree at UMass Dartmouth in recent years have continued their studies at the Ph.D. level at other universities including Brandeis, City University of New York at Brooklyn, Illinois, Johns Hopkins, Kentucky, Maryland, MIT., Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Rensselaer, Rice, Rutgers, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Wesleyan. Our graduates are employed at computer software companies, high schools, industrial concerns, national laboratories, nuclear power plants and universities. They work in fields as varied as astrophysics, biophysics, computer programming, electrical engineering, experimental high energy physics, liquid crystals, materials science, mathematical statistics, nuclear engineering, nuclear theory and satellite communications.

Faculty and Student Research

Research activities in the Physics Department span a very diverse range within the field, but may be grouped into three main focus areas: Ocean Physics, Computational and Theoretical Physics, and Experimental Physics. Student participation is highly valued in all of these  areas, and opportunities include research assistantships and summer internships along with tuition waivers. Current research efforts in the department are supported by grants from several federal agencies.

The world’s oceans play a critical role in modulating both weather and climate. Current research projects in Ocean Physics cover physical scales from micrometers to thousands of kilometers using several different techniques. Satellite-derived data is used to study a variety of physical and physical-biological interactions concerning the relationship between ocean circulation and plankton. Numerical and analytical techniques are used  to study many different aspects of both coastal and open ocean circulation, as well as upper ocean conditions and circulation. Specific projects include studies of feature oriented regional modeling systems and multivariate  synthesis of biophysical data sets in different world oceans, biophysical modeling in the northern Humboldt Current, basin-scale simulations of the North Atlantic, upper-ocean mixing in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean, interaction of mesoscale eddies with mixed layers, ageostrophic circulation near fronts in the upper ocean, and experimental fluid physics. Research is carried out at both the UMass Dartmouth main campus in North Dartmouth and the UMass Dartmouth Marine Campus located on Clark Cove in southern New Bedford, and conducted in collaboration with a variety of both national and international researchers located at other federal laboratories and major universities.

Theoretical and computational research is pursued in a number of areas. Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) physics research focuses on electronic and optical properties of matter in interaction with charged particles, photons and laser pulses. Electron correlation effects and exotic properties of Rydberg atoms and molecules are areas of current interest. Research in gravitational physics is also represented in the theory area in several projects. One of the most significant of these involves studying the coalescence of binary black holes using perturbation theory and estimating properties of the gravitational waves produced in this process. This research is relevant to the various gravity wave observatories being constructed (e.g. LIGO, LISA) that will soon detect this radiation from astrophysical sources. Other areas of faculty interest in theoretical research include studies of the broad view of Lorentz and Poincare invariance and spacetime symmetry, spacetime transformations for non-inertial frames with limiting 4-dimensional symmetry and field theory in non-inertial frames, and translation gauge symmetry for gravity.

Research in experimental physics at UMass Dartmouth includes nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, traffic engineering, and observational astronomy. The nuclear physics research currently involves a series of measurements to investigate pion photoproduction near threshold from the proton and (eventually) the neutron. This project is a collaborative effort involving researchers from the U.S. and Sweden, and will be undertaken using the MAX-lab facility at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Research into the physical phenomena of liquid crystals and polymers, a sub-discipline of condensed matter physics, currently includes working toward the development of electronically switchable diffraction gratings, which can steer and manage impinging light. An area that uses both modeling and experimental data is transportation engineering: specifically, transportation modeling, queuing, optimization and car following theory. This work involves the Florida Department of Transportation and the Center for Advanced Transportation Systems Simulation, CATSS, in Orlando, Florida. Observational astronomy research is focused on stellar and galactic studies of binary stars. Hubble Space Telescope data of extremely old binary stars are now being analyzed, and a ground-based effort using speckle imaging at the WIYN 3.5-m Telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona is underway in collaboration with Yale University to develop comprehensive information of binaries in the solar neighborhood.

For further information on these and other research activities, please visit the department web page at www.umassd.edu/engineering/physics/

Admission Requirements

Applicants must submit the required application materials to the Graduate Office. The following aspects are related specifically to the graduate physics program.

Admission to the graduate physics program may be either for the fall or the spring semester. Admission is competitive and requires the completion of an undergraduate degree in physics or a closely related field with a grade point average that attests to the student’s ability for graduate level study. The General Record Examination (GRE) is not required for admission, but the selection of candidates for financial support includes consideration of GRE scores as well as Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) scores for international students whose native language is not English.

Financial Assistance

A limited number of teaching and research assistantships are available. They are awarded on a competitive basis. The selection of candidates is based on academic transcripts from the student’s home institution, three letters of recommendation from professors or other senior scientists well acquainted with the qualifications of the candidate, the GRE scores and, where applicable, the TOEFL scores. Assistantships are awarded either on a full-time or a partial basis. The number of applicants for financial support has traditionally far exceeded the number of assistantships available.

Other assistance, such as loans or work study, may be available to you. Please consult the chapter on “Expenses and Financial Assistance.”

Contact

Dr Elliott Horch
Graduate Program Director, Physics
Assistant Professor of Physics
508 999-8360
ehorch@umassd.edu

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300

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