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-====== Beyond the First Year ======
-==== The Ph.D. Thesis and its defense ====
-The Ph.D. thesis represents the capstone of your graduate student career. The first part is the preparation of a written document summarizing your original research. Before beginning to prepare the document, you should review the Graduate School thesis format [[https://assets.asr.umn.edu/files/gssp/Thesis_formatting_guidelines.pdf|requirements]]. You should look at other prior theses as examples, particularly those in the same specialty area. Keep in mind that many students have developed electronic templates and packages to format the thesis.
-Once the thesis is written, and before the oral defense, students must request a Graduation Packet. Requests for a Graduation Packet can be made up to one semester before the thesis defense. Included in the packet are the Thesis Reviewer's Report, Application for Degree, and Preparing Doctoral Dissertation. Complete copies of the thesis should be given to the thesis reviewers at least three weeks before the defense. The Thesis Reviewer's Report form must be signed by the thesis reviewers at least one week before the thesis defense is scheduled, and taken to the Graduate Office. The thesis should also be given to the other committee members at least two weeks prior to the defense.
-The thesis defense date and time is scheduled by the student, in consultation with the adviser and the committee members. When the defense is formally scheduled, the names of the committee members are entered by the student into the scheduling online interface. The composition of the committee is then approved by the adviser and by the Director of Graduate Studies. Note that the adviser **cannot** serve as the chair of the Thesis Defense Committee. In the online form, you will designate at least three reviewers for the thesis, who will need to approve it as being ready for defense before the Graduate School will schedule your final defense. Two of the reviewers must be faculty in the Physics graduate program (and one of them can be the adviser). The third reviewer must be a committee member from outside physics.
-School of Physics guidelines for the composition of the committee are given in the [[graduate_handbook:physics_graduate_policies#assignment_of_ms_and_phd_committees_dissertation_defense|Graduate Policies section]].
-The thesis defense consists of a public and a private portion. The public portion is a one hour seminar. Because the thesis presentation is required to be public by the University, the time and place of the thesis defense must be announced in the weekly departmental calendar. It is the student responsibility to make sure that this announcement is made. After the seminar, there will be an opportunity for questions from anyone in attendance. Next, the Committee will have an opportunity to privately question the student about the thesis. At this time, generally, only questions about the thesis and related subjects are asked. Finally, the Committee will excuse the student and take a vote. For a pass, there must be no more than one dissenting vote.
-The Graduate School permits an opportunity to graduate any month of the year. If the Graduate Application for Degree form is submitted by the end of the first business day of the month, the student will graduate as of that month provided all other requirements are completed, and all forms are in the Graduate School office by the end of the last business day of the month. Otherwise, the date of the degree will be delayed until the month in which all the requirements are completed.
-===== Graduate courses required and by subfield =====
-==== Plasma and Space Physics ====
-: Introduction to Space Physics
-: Introduction to Plasma Physics
-: Plasma Physics I
-: Plasma Physics II
-: Cosmic Rays and Plasma Astrophysics
-: Advanced Topics in Space and Plasma Physics
-: Seminar: Space Physics
-==== Relativity and Cosmology ====
-: Relativity, Cosmology, and the Universe
-: General Relativity and Cosmology I
-: General Relativity and Cosmology II
-: Seminar: Cosmology and Astrophysics
-==== Some typical course programs ====
-Typical course programs for various sub-fields can be found [[http://zzz.physics.umn.edu/dgs_advice/classes_to_take|here]].
-Typical courses for first year students were discussed in the previous section. In succeeding years, the selection of courses will depend on the student's research field, and on whether the student is a theorist or experimentalist. Some of these courses are not offered every year. After 24-28 credits of course work during the first year, another 12-16 credits are required for the Ph.D. program. Since most of the 8xxx classes are 3 credits, 4 to 6 such courses, along with the group seminar, will be needed.
-A few suggestions for the second year follow:
-== Condensed Matter Experiment ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8711: Solid State Physics I | 8712: Solid State Physics II |
-| Material Science or Engineering elective | 8702: Advanced Statistical Mechanics and Transport |
-| 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter | 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter |
- == Condensed Matter Theory ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8711: Solid State Physics I | 8712: Solid State Physics II |
-| 8001: Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 8702: Advanced Statistical Mechanics and Transport|
-| 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter | 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter |
-== High Energy Experiment ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8001: Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 8011: Quantum Field Theory I |
-| 8901: Elementary Particle Physics I | 8902: Elementary Particle Physics II |
-| 8900: Seminar: Elementary Particles | 8900: Seminar: Elementary Particles |
-== High Energy Theory ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8001: Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 8011: Quantum Field Theory I |
-| 8901: Elementary Particle Physics I | 8902: Elementary Particle Physics II |
-| 8900: Seminar: Elementary Particles | 8900: Seminar: Elementary Particles |
-| 8501: General Relativity and Cosmology I | 8502: General Relativity and Cosmology II |
-| 8012: Quantum Field Theory II |  |
-== Nuclear Theory ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8001: Advanced Quantum Mechanics | 8702: Statistical Mechanics II |
-| 8012: Quantum Field Theory II | 8011: Quantum Field Theory I |
-| 8800: Seminar: Nuclear Physics | 8800: Seminar: Nuclear Physics |
-| 8801: Nuclear Physics I | 8802: Nuclear Physics II |
-== Space Physics and Astrophysics ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-|4611: Introduction to Space Physics | 4621: Introduction to Plasma Physics |
-| 8501: General Relativity and Cosmology I | 8502: General Relativity and Cosmology II |
-| 8600: Seminar: Space Physics | 8600: Seminar: Space Physics |
-| 8601: Plasma Physics I | 8602: Plasma Physics II |
-| 8611: Cosmic Rays and Plasma Astrophysics |
-== Biological Physics ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| 8711: Solid State Physics I | 5081: Introduction to Biopolymer Physics  |
-| biochemistry or biology elective | 8311: Biological Physics of Single Molecules |
-| biochemistry or biology elective | 8312: Biological Physics of Macroscopic Systems |
-| 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter, or\\ 8-level seminar in biochemistry  | 8700: Seminar: Condensed Matter, or\\ 8-level seminar in biochemistry |
-== Physics Education ==
-^ Fall ^ Spring ^
-| EPSY 8261: Statistical Methods I | EPSY8262: Statistical Methods II |
-| EPSY 8114: Cognition & Learning | EPSY 5247: Qualitative Methods in Educational Psychology |
-| CI 8595: Problems in Science Education | EPSY 8222: Advanced Measurement: Theory & Application |
-| CGSC 8410: Perspectives in Learning, Perception & Cognition | PHYS 8100: Seminar: Problems of Physics Teaching & Higher Education |

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