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:

Dynamic Course Schedule

Fall 2023

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Mathematical Methods in Physics [Class #53031] – PHYS 70100
Graduate Center Campus   M, W, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm  Room #6496   4.000 Credits   Adrian Dumitru

Analytical Dynamics [Class #53034] – PHYS 71100
Graduate Center Campus   M, W, 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm  Room #6496  4.000 Credits   Vladimir Rosenhaus

Photonics [Class #53036] – PHYS 71200
Graduate Center Advanced Science Research Center (at uptown GC campus, at the City College of New York)
Tu, Th, 10:30 am – 12:15 pm   5^th Floor Data Visualization Room   4.000 Credits   Qiushi Guo

Quantum Mechanics I [Class #53030] – PHYS 72500
Graduate Center Campus   M, W, 9:00 am – 10:45 am   Room 6496   4.000 Credits   Giovanni Ossola

Electromagnetic Theory II [Class #53039] – PHYS 71600
City College of New York campus
Tu, Th, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm   Marshak Hall  Room #418N  4.000 Credits   Timothy Boyer
[co-listed with City College of New York’s Physics MS program as Physics V1600]

Particle Physics [Class #53057] – PHYS 73600
Graduate Center Campus   M, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm   Room #6495   4.000 Credits    James Popp

Solid State Physics [Class #53059] – PHYS 74500
Graduate Center Campus   Tu, 1:15 pm – 4:30 pm  Room #9116   4.000 Credits    So Takei

Computational Methods in Physics [Class #53062] – PHYS 78100
Graduate Center Campus   Tu, Th, 10:00 am – 11:40 am   Room #6495   4.000 Credits    Jared Goldberg
[Astrophysics focused; co-listed with Astrophysics MS program]

Nano and Micro Photonics [Class #53067] – PHYS 81700
Graduate Center Campus   F,  9:00 am – 12:00 pm  Room #3309   4.000 Credits    Matthew Sfeir
[co-listed with Nanoscience MS program]

Selected Topics in Advanced Physics: Galaxies [Class #53073] – PHYS 85200
Graduate Center Campus   W, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm  Room #3305   4.000 Credits  Charlotte Welker
[co-listed with Astrophysics MS program as AST 77700]

Selected Topics in Advanced Physics: Quantum Optics [Class #53082] – PHYS 85300
Graduate Center Campus   F, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm   Room #3309   3.000 Credits    Christopher Gerry

Survey of Research Opportunities at CUNY [Class #53084] – PHYS 85400
[Open to 1^st-year physics students only] 
Graduate Center Campus  F, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm   Room #6417   3.000 Credits   Nicolas Giovambattista
[1st-year students are required to take this course; Grading is Pass/Fail]

Research Rotation I [Class #53085] – PHYS 85500 [Open to 1^st-year physics students only] 
Graduate Center Campus [rotation faculty and schedules to be announced in late August/early September]
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