Information for Prospective Graduate Students

Applications for the 2007-2008 academic year are being accepted.

The University of Chicago is home to many of the most exciting projects in astrophysics and cosmology. Projects include:

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which is finding the 3D positions of one million galaxies and over 100,000 quasars

MSAM-TopHAT, a balloon-borne experiment.

Degree Angular Scale Interferometer (DASI), a 13-element interferometer based at the South Pole, John Carlstrom's Group

Planck, an ESA satellite

Interferometric Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging Experiment (SZE), the upscattering of the microwave background by hot electrons in galaxy clusters -- is being detected on a scale never dreamed possible by John Carlstrom's group

Each of these projects has the potential individually to revolutionize our understanding of the cosmos. Together, they may well provide us with a consistent view of how structure in the universe formed. When considering these along with all the other astrophysics initiatives at UofC [see below], one is led to the inescapable conclusion that Chicago truly is the Center of the Universe.

Research

Rules and Regulations and Classes

Astronomy and Astrophysics classes;
General statement summarizing the curriculum, the procedures, and the regulations;
Detailed outline of core class sequence;
Graduate program description from the online catalog;
Office of Academic Publications page on Graduate Programs at the University of Chicago in general.

Advice before, during, and after grad school

What Every New Graduate Student Should Know, including How to Be a Good Graduate Student.