Training graduate students to do significant and independent research by taking core physics courses, specialty courses, and advanced computational instruction, as well as carrying out advanced research the results of which will be archival and thereby expand the physics knowledge base. Pass a comprehensive examination. Pass the oral candidacy exam.
Evaluation is made by a unanimous pass or fail vote of the student s dissertation committee.
Successful completion of a thesis. Four students took the comprehensive examination. Two students took the candidacy exam and both of them passed. Two students defended their theses. Both were judged to have passed.