Recent content by Igor_S

That is a complete list of all courses offered by MIT's Department of Physics. Not all are mandatory, and there isn't enough time to take every single course and to study every single area of physics in great detail. But getting a PhD does require you to know a lot of stuff. By that I mean you...

... for Italian students? :P

Thanks for the detailed info. This is really helpful. But I have to say I'm still puzzled why is such ridiculous and (IMO) unimportant test as GRE general even considered in department's admissions. I know its usually required by Graduate school (I suppose they use it for something like...

I seriously doubt that's enough to get into any top grad program (from experience), but maybe those were the different times...

Respect to Mr. Ed, but I'm puzzled how did he got into Princeton Physics Dept. with only B.A. degree in history/linguistics... :bugeye: . Maybe his affiliation with politicians had something to do. Just making observations, I'm not saying it is.

Hmm I think things were different in the last century and that they have changed. I don't know any "universalists" today, probably because research in almost all fields has advanced too deep for one person to be able to cover many fields simultaneously. But, you can of course, specialize in...

Unit circle, this is actually very good point: If you didn't work for several different profs, you might try being polite and going easy with this guy. E.g. I wouldn't say exactly "biophysics isn't my area of interest", but rather "I found out that xxxxxxx interests me more than biophysics...

I've seen many experiments while I was looking at research pages at various universities. So I disagree. CERN's LHC, SLAC, Brookhaven, Kamiokande, AMANDA, WMAP, ... ?? There are surely more, these are the experiments and institutions I thought in a minute. I am well aware what LOL means...

Whoaaa LOOOOL ? Theoretical physics and MATHEMATICS are going to be the future of physics - WTF ?! "Theoretical physics" is such a general area (it could be anything from condensed matter to strings) but from I see, there is more work today (and more funding) in condensed matter and applied...

Well I'm far from expert, but I would guess it depends what area of theoretical physics interests you. If you're into strings and that kind of thing, I guess you should take as many math classes as possible (or double major math-phy). If you're closer to condensed matter physics, I don't think...

I have a few "noobish" questions: 1) What's DSE ? 2) What's 'o' level in computer studies ?

Also, I don't think there is such thing as "PhD in Quantum physics" (nor "PhD in Classical physics"). The closest to that would be Quantum Information or maybe interpretations of quantum physics (latter being more philosophical). Areas you can get (as in "areas most people" get) PhD in, are...

More or less, yes. International students usually pay bigger application fee, which is at UBC something like $120 for int. students - that's why I brought it up. Not that only this fee is relativiley (or ridiculouslly) high (considering other schools), they also have minimum for subject GRE...

It seems you are stuck with math problem. Here is a little help: In order to calculate normalization, you need to calculate volume integral from equation: \int_{all space} |\Psi(\vec{r})|^2 d \vec{r} = 1. Now the thing is, people use notation d\vec{r} to actually mean a little volume element...

Why doesn't he take lessons in english... if he is willing to learn english, it could obviously help him.