Graduate overview
Where we are
What we've got <
Our grad students
How to apply
Financial aid
A grad student's life
Facilities
Research
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What We've Got
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Resources
and opportunities
We offer the resources and opportunities that students need to
become the best scientists they can be.
In choosing a research project, you will enjoy a wide range of
research disciplines, including several interdisciplinary areas.
Our department is growing. In the last 20 years, we have increased
our number of faculty members by 50 percent, and the number of research
labs on campus has more than doubled.
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Faculty
with significant national and international reputations
You will be working with faculty members who have significant national
and international reputations. To judge this for yourself, you can
use the same criteria that professors everywhere use in evaluating
themselves: awards won by faculty, research grants, invited talks
at conferences and workshops, and papers published in the most prestigious
journals. Each of these indicators is the result of peer review,
on a national or international level, of the quality of a faculty
member's work:
Major awards our faculty members have won:
- A member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Two Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS)
- Ten Fellows of the American Physical Society
- Two Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
- One Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
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Research grants:
Our faculty members' success in receiving competitively-awarded
research grants makes us the top physics department, measured
in dollars per faculty member, for all of the Big Ten universities.
These include: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota,
Northwestern, Purdue, Pennsylvania State, Purdue, Ohio State,
and Wisconsin. Beyond indicating our faculty's reputation among
their scientific peers, research grants are also important because
they pay for students' stipends, conference travel, and equipment.
Papers and invited talks:
An invited talk is an honor given by the organizers of scientific
conferences workshops, where most talks are designated as "contributed"
while only a few are "invited", indicating a high level of recognition
of the speaker by peers. Our record of giving invited talks is
excellent. During the most recent year, our faculty members gave
52 invited talks at conferences and workshops. They publish their
work in the leading journals, as listed on our faculty web pages
www.physics.uiowa.edu/faculty.
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Ten University |
Grant
Support per Faculty Member |
| Iowa |
$354,000 |
| University
A |
$263,000 |
| University
B |
$252,000 |
| University
C |
$235,000 |
| University
D |
$208,000 |
| University
E |
$185,000 |
| University
F |
$167,000 |
| University
G |
$148,000 |
| University
H |
$145,000 |
| University
I |
$124,000 |
| University
J |
$106,000 |
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Colloquia
and seminars
Our colloquia and seminars keep graduate students abreast of the
latest research. Seminars are also where students are trained to
give talks and develop the communication skills they need to become
successful scientists. In the 2005-2006 academic year, we had 146
talks in our colloquia and seminars. The speakers were:
- 59% from outside our department, including 35 other institutions
- 41% from inside our department, including our own graduate students.
Our seminars, specialized by research area, are:
- Astrophysics & Space Physics
- Experimental and Theoretical (High Energy and Nuclear)
- Materials Physics/Solid State Physics
- Mathematical Physics
- Operator Theory
- Plasma Physics
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Interaction
with many scientists
To become a successful researcher, you will want to talk with not
only your advisor, but other scientists as well. We provide these
opportunities. You will meet other scientists when you travel to
research conferences, and you will also interact with our other faculty members and our staff of researchers with doctorates, including:
9 Research Scientists
18 Postdocs and Research Investigators
4 Visiting Scholars
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