Information for Prospective Graduate Students:

Choosing to join our Group will give you the opportunity to...

• do your Ph.D. research in an interdisciplinary area, combining physics, chemistry and materials science
• have your thesis research be of both fundamental and technological significance
• explore the physics and chemistry of low dimensional and correlated solids, inorganic and organic semiconductors, and organic superconductors
• learn vacuum technology, thin film growth, electronics, state-of-the-art analytic spectroscopies
• live in Boston but travel to various synchrotron radiation facilities around the country and around the world.

If these opportunities appeal to you, then...

• You can join the group to work on any of our research projects.
• We are presently funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the US Army Research Office, and the Petroleum Research Fund
• We have built new spectrometer systems to perform high resolution photoemission, soft x-ray emission, and resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering at synchrotron radiation sources. 
• If you are not already a student here at BU then the first step in joining the group is, of course, applying for admission to the Ph.D. program. You will need to get hold of all the application materials. To do this, please fill out our Information Request Form. Or you can write directly to the Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215.

Kevin Smith