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[QUOTE="DEvens, post: 6256018, member: 475460"] One good place to find out who is working on your area of interest is the preprint archive. [URL]https://arxiv.org/[/URL] Once you have a few candidate names, it's time to start Googling. Find out who among them is a professor at universities that might be suitable for your needs. Find their email at university. Contact them directly. Let them know specifically that you are looking for a place to do a PhD. Offer to send them more information about you. If it seems possible, ask them about things you have concerns about. Ask them to let you know about anything you should know. Once you have a potential faculty adviser, it's time to contact the university and find out about various mundane things. You will need to know application requirements, dates for various things, what you need regarding transcripts, reference letters, etc. Also, you should find out what scholarships or other financial support you can apply for. Many such things won't consider you unless you apply. You should be very careful to be nice to the support staff. Clerks and secretaries can often be valuable sources of information that profs may or may not know, and may or may not tell you about. For example, if you have difficulty understanding what is required on a form, you probably want to ask the department secretary. That's the person who will have looked at many of these forms and will know what is good to put in the boxes. They will also be able to tell you about deadlines and which ones can be pushed and which ones really are final. And lots of other things. Another place to look is magazines with titles like Physics Today, and various other "fluffy" subject-related magazines. Your university library will be able to make suggestions. The issue you want is to find out the "recent graduate" items. These will tell you things like where previous PhD students got jobs. If you are considering a prof as your adviser, and his previous students all got jobs that you would like to have, then that's a good possible adviser. [/QUOTE]
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