Courses
Current and past semester course listings are available below. Syllabi are available upon request by emailing dmoy@gc.cuny.edu.
Courses are also available on CUNY's website:
Fall 2022
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Mathematical Methods in Physics [Class # 57512] – PHYS 70100 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus M, 2:00 pm – 3:50 pm and Th, 11:00 am – 12:50 pm
Room # 6496 4.000 Credits V. Parameswaran Nair
Analytical Dynamics [Class # 57509] – PHYS 71100 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus M, W, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Room # 6496 4.000 Credits Sebastián Franco
Photonics [Class # 57524] – PHYS 71200 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus W, 1:15 pm – 3:00 pm and Th, 9:00 am – 10:45 am
Room # 6496 4.000 Credits Matthew Sfeir
Quantum Mechanics I [Class # 57505] – PHYS 72500 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus M, W, 9:00 am – 10:45 am Room # 6496 4.000 Credits Giovanni Ossola
Electromagnetic Theory II [Class # 57525] – PHYS 71600 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus Tu, Th, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room # 6496 4.000 Credits Timothy Boyer
[co-listed with City College of New York’s Physics MS program as Physics V1600]
Solid State Physics [Class # 57526] – PHYS 74500 [Open to all levels, non-physics major requires instructor approval]
Graduate Center Campus Tu, 9:00 am – 12:15 pm Room # 3212 4.000 Credits So Takei
CANCELLED Particle Physics [Class # 57527] – PHYS 73600 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus F, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm Room # 3309 4.000 Credits James Popp
Computational Methods in Physics [Class # 57528] – PHYS 78100 [Open to all levels, non-physics major subject to instructor approval]
Graduate Center Campus M, W, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Room # 6495 4.000 Credits Ariyeh Maller
Quantum Information [Class # 57530] – PHYS 83100 [Open to 2nd year or higher]
Graduate Center Campus Tu, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Room # 6421 and Th, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Room # 7395
4.000 Credits Janos Bergou
High Energy Physics [Class # 57531] – PHYS 83400 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus M, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Room # 3309 4.000 Credits Jamal Jalilian-Marian
Special Topics: Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics [Class # 57532] – PHYS 85200 [Open to all levels]
American Museum of Natural History Campus Rose Center for Earth & Science Perkin Reading Room (5th floor)
Tu, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm 4.000 Credits Emily Rice [co-listed with Graduate Center’s MS Astrophysics program]
Special Topics: Early Universe Cosmology [Class # 57533] – PHYS 85200 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center Campus W, 1:15 pm – 4:15 pm Room # 6495 4.000 Credits Vladimir Rosenhaus
Survey of Research Opportunities at CUNY [Class # 57536] – PHYS 85400 [Open to 1st-year physics students only]
Graduate Center Campus Th, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Room # 6495 3.000 Credits Sophia Suarez
[1st-year students are required to take this course; Grading is Pass/Fail]
Research Rotation I [Class # 57537] – PHYS 85500 [Open to 1st-year physics students only]
Graduate Center Campus [rotation faculty and schedules to be announced]
1.000 Credit Alexios Polychronakos
[1st-year students are required to take this course; Grading is Pass/Fail]
Independent Study – PHYS 89900 [Open to Level I and II Physics students only]
1.000 – 4.000 Credits
[Students are limited to 1 Independent Study course per semester, requires permission of instructor, and open to students with less than 60 total credits]
Dissertation Supervision – PHYS 90000 [Open to Level III Physics students only]
1.000 Credit
Spring 2022
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Electromagnetic Theory I [Class #60489] - PHYS 71500 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center campus Tu, Th, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Timothy Boyer
Quantum Mechanics II [Class #60490] - PHYS 72600 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center campus Tu, Th, 9:00 am – 11:00 am Room # tba 4.000 Credits Peter Orland
Statistical Mechanics [Class #60491] - PHYS 74100 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center campus Tu, Th, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Anatoly Kuklov
Quantum Theory of Fields II [Class #60492] - PHYS 82600 [Open to 2nd year or higher]
Graduate Center campus W, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Daniel Kabat
Quantum Theory of Solids I [Class #60494] - PHYS 84500 [Open to 2nd year or higher]
Graduate Center campus M, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Godfrey Gumbs
General Relativity and Black Holes [Class #60497] - PHYS 85200 [Open to all levels]
Graduate Center campus W, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Vladimir Rosenhaus
2 Dimensional Materials [Class #60496] - PHYS 85200 [Open to 2nd year or higher]
Graduate Center campus M, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Room # tba 4.000 Credits Gabriele Grosso
[Open to students in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Material Science]
Nanofabrication and Nanodevices [Class #60499] - PHYS 77400 [Open to 2nd year or higher]
Graduate Center Advanced Science Research Center (uptown campus)
F, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm 4.000 Credits Milan Begliarbekov
ASRC room # 5.210
[Cross-listed with M.S. Nanoscience program as NANO 79000]
[Open to students in Physics, Chemistry and Engineering]
Research Rotation II [Class #60498] - PHYS 85600 [Open to 1st-year Physics students only]
Graduate Center campus [Rotation instructors and schedule to be determined]
3.000 Credits Alexios Polychronakos
[1st-year Physics students are required to take this course; grading is Pass/Fail]
Independent Study - PHYS 89900 [Open to Physics students in 2nd year or higher only]
Graduate Center campus 1.000 – 4.000 Credits
[Open to Physics students with less than 60.0 cumulative credits; limited to 1 Independent Study course per
semester; requires permission of Executive Officer; schedule is determined between instructor and student]
Dissertation Supervision - PHYS 90000 [Open to Level 3 Physics students only]
