FACULTY OF NATURAL SCIENCES

Department of Physics

Address : Box 23343, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3343

Telephone : (787) 764-0620, (787) 764-0000, exts. 7702, 2311, 4768

Fax : (787) 764-4063

E-mail : Chairman@physd.cnnet.clu.edu

DEGREE OFFERED

MS in Physics

FACULTY

Fouad Aliev , PhD, Leningrad State University, 1975, Professor.
Experimental solid-state physics; condensed mass physics; liquid crystals; porous mediums; dielectric spectroscopy; static dispersion techniques and light dynamics.

Daniel R. Altschuler , PhD, Brandeis University, 1975, Professor.
Astronomy, extragalactic radio sources; active galactic nucleus .

Lutful B. Bhuiyan , PhD, University of London, 1977, Professor.
Statistical mechanics; chemical-physics; electrolyte structure and thermodynamics; double electric layers; theory of liquids .

Lesser Blum , PhD, University of Buenos Aires, 1956, JS Guggenheim Fellow 1978; Fellow, American Physical Society, 1980-; J. Hilderbrand Award 2003; Professor.
Mathematical physics; exact results for charged systems; exactly solved problems in statistical mechanics; surface electrochemistry, theory and experiment; theory of active electrodes; the hydrogen fuel cell; equations of state for complex fluids, polyelectrolytes, ionic channels; analytical theory of water and solutions .

Luis F. Fonseca , PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1985, Professor.
Solid-state physics; optical and electrical properties of crystalline and amorphous materials; nanostructured semiconductors: synthesis and opto-electronic properties .

Manuel Gómez , PhD, Cornell University,1968, Professor.
Solid-state physics; phase transitions; optical properties of solids .

Xianping Feng , PhD, La Trobe University, Australia, 2000, Assistant Proffesor. Performed experiments on laser-matter interaction utilizing Nd:YAG short pulse lasers; Thin film deposition and research; Photoemission & laser characterization; Study/analyze hot and dense plasma generated by laser radiation or in plasma focus

Ram Katiyar , PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,1968, Professor.
Raman and infrared spectroscopy; growth and characterization of ferroelectrics, transparent semiconductors, solid state ionics in thin film and nano-crystalline forms for optoelectronic applications; Lattice dynamics of phonons .

Carlos Marín , PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1997; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002, Assistant Profesor.
Production and characterization of nanostructured materials; melt, vapor and solution growth of single crystalline semiconductors and oxides; heat and mass transfer related to materials processing on earth and in space; measurement of electronic and thermophysical properties of solids and melts at high temperature; theoretical and experimental X-ray diffraction .

Antonio Martínez , PhD, American University, 1990, Associate Professor.
Condensed matter physics; epitaxial growth of metals and widebandgap semiconductors; transport properties; surface physics .

José F. Nieves , PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1980, Professor.
Theoretical particle physics .

Luca Olmi , PhD, University of Florence, 1991, Assistant Professor.
Radio astronomy, optical design, stars formation studies .

Carmen A. Pantoja , PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1995, Assistant Professor.
Astronomy; spectral analysis; galaxies; cosmology .

Jaime Ponce de León , Doctorate, Central University of Venezuela, 1985, Professor.
General relativity; cosmological heterogeneous models; Kaluza-Klein theory .

Ronald G. Selsby , PhD, Ohio State University, 1969, Professor.
Chemical-physics; calculations of molecular ionization energies and electronic affinities .

Alfredo Torruella , PhD, Yale University, 1965, Professor.
Quantum mechanics; nonlinear waves; computational fluid dynamics .

Marcelo R. Ubriaco , PhD, University of North Carolina, 1989, Professor.
Quantum field theory; quantum group applications to quantum statistical mechanics.

Gerardo Morel, PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1995. Professor.
Nanostructured material for electronic applications.

S. Zvi Weisz , PhD, Hebrew ( Jerusalem), 1962, Emeritus. Condensed matter physics; electrical and optical properties of semiconductors and amorphous materials; thin films.

MASTERS PROGRAM

Requirements for Admission

In addition to the requirements for admission to graduate study at the Río Piedras Campus and in the College of Natural Sciences, the Department of Physics requires:

Requirements for Graduation

Besides the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus, students must pass:

Program of Study

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