{"id":2482,"date":"2015-04-28T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/?page_id=2482"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:49:05","slug":"ph-d-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D. in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ph.D. in Physics<\/h1>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"Ph.D. Physics\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-ph-d-physics\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-11786\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-11786\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-11783\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-11783\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/admission\/\">Admission<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-11780\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-11780\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-12592\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-12592\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/graduate-faqs\/\">FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Physics offers a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Physics. There is considerable flexibility in the selection of courses, including those from related disciplines, which permits highly individualized programs of study. Thesis research can be carried out in any area in which a student and a faculty member find a common interest. Graduate students specialize in several key research areas, including Quantum Information Science, Astrophysics, Biophysics, and Photonics, while ongoing research efforts span multiple disciplines. The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/curriculum\/#gpt\">General Physics track<\/a> focuses on fundamental matter study and theory, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/academics\/ph-d-in-physics\/curriculum\/#apt\">Applied Physics track<\/a> is more focused on solving real-world problems. For more information about research groups, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/research\/\">research page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout  \"><h1>Contact<\/h1>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, please contact Graduate Program Director <a title=\"Leonard M. Kahn\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/meet\/leonard-m-kahn\/\">Leonard Kahn<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. in Physics Overview The Department of Physics offers a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Physics. There is considerable flexibility in the selection of courses, including those from related disciplines, which permits highly individualized programs of study. Thesis research can be carried out in any area in which a student and a faculty member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":2361,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16961,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2482\/revisions\/16961"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}