The Cross-Disciplinary Physics (CDP) Program at the University of Rochester is centered in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and is operated in collaboration with faculty holding primary appointments in other departments in the College including:

• the School of Engineering and Applied Science,
• the Laboratory for Laser Energetics,
• the Medical School, and
• a selection of distinguished Industrial Partner laboratories.

Graduate students in the CDP program are admitted as regular graduate students into the Department of Physics and Astronomy (PAS). Like most PAS graduate students, they typically join a PAS related research group in the second or third year of their graduate work. Students receive their Ph.D. degree in Physics and satisfy all standard requirements of the Physics Ph.D.

How is Physics Ph.D. research carried out in the Rochester "CDP" Program?

At the University of Rochester, research in the various fields of Physics is done within the Department of Physics and Astronomy, in many Science and Engineering Departments, and in our Industrial Cohort laboratories. Student may freely join a research group led by a researcher with a faculty appointment (either primary or secondary) within the Department of Physics and Astronomy and continue on to a Ph.D. thesis. Students who are interested in working with a research group outside the Department are assigned both an Internal Advisor (who holds a faculty position in the department and who normally works in a closely related field) and an External Advisor. In most of these cases, it is the External Advisor who provides support and facilities for the studentís research and it is the External Advisor who provides the day to day supervision of the studentís Ph.D. research. About one third of the hundred or so graduate students in Department carry out their Ph.D. research in this mode. The CDP Program is directed by the Graduate Support and Awards Coordinator for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Professor Nicholas Bigelow.

What kinds of Physics opportunities are currently available outside of the Department through the CDP Program?

At present the research in the CDP program spans the following sub-fields:

• Accelerator Physics, e.g. with Fermilab
• Atomic and Molecular Physics, e.g. with Optics, LLE, ECE, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science)
• Biological and Medical Physics e.g. Biophysics and Structural Biology cluster, see http://dbb.urmc.rochester.edu/bsb/ ; Radiology, see http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/rad/ . ; Chemistry, Biology, Optics, BCS, Medical Center.

• Chemical Physics, e.g. with Chemistry, Chemical Engineering. Kodak, Xerox
• Communication, Computational and Information, e.g. with Optics, ECE, Lucent
• Physics Plasma Physics and Fusion, e.g. with LLE, Mech. E.
• Condensed Matter Physics, e.g. with LLE, Chemistry, Optics, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, Mech. Engineering
• Low Temperature Physics, e.g. with ECE
• Materials Science
• Micro-Electronics, e.g. with ECE, Optics
• Optical and Laser Physics, e.g. with Optics, LLE, Chemistry
• Quantum Optics, e.g. with Optics, ECE

In addition to active participation of over 30 graduate students in the CDP program, many undergraduates participate in the departmentís Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program and can also carry out their research within the CDP Program and gain experience working with the CDP research scientists. During summer months, CDP graduate students frequently interact with NSF REU students. The graduate - undergraduate interactions are invaluable and provide REU participants with a unique understanding of the Graduate experience.
 
 

Which University of Rochester Faculty supervise CDP students?
 

Naturally, all faculty with primary appointments in the Department of Physics and Astronomy are involved in CDP. In addition there are a selection of faculty with secondary appointments in Physics and/or Astronomy who supervise CDP students. In addition to this group, an excellent array of faculty and scientists at the University have supervised PAS students within the CDP structure.

For information about faculty with primary appointments in the department of Physics and Astronomy, see http://www.pas.rochester.edu. Faculty with secondary appointments in PAS, and faculty and staff scientists who have supervised PAS research students are listed in Tables I and II below.

Who are the CDP Internal Advisors?
 

The following primary appointment Faculty from the Department of Physics and Astronomy typically serve as internal advisors in the various fields of encompassed by the CDP program:

• Accelerator Physics : Adrian Melissinos
• Biological and Medical Physics : Yongli Gao and Robert Knox
• Low Temperature Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Chemical Physics and Materials Science : Nicholas Bigelow, David Douglass, Yongli Gao, Yonathan Shapir, Steve Teitel, Dan Watson, and Wenhao Wu
• Plasma Physics and Fusion : Eric Blackman and Adam Frank
• Quantum Optics and Optical and Laser Physics : Nicholas Bigelow, Joe Eberly,  John Howell, Adrian Melissinos and Emil Wolf

Currently, or in recent years, CDP Ph.D. students have carried out research with CDP cohorts at:

• Kodak Research Laboratories (summer internships possible in Chemical Physics and Medical Physics. For Medical Physics contact Rochester Alumnus Xiaohui Wang, xiaohui.wang@kodak.com, for Chemical/Optical Physics contact Prof. Spoonhower, jps@pas.rochester.edu )
• The Xerox Corporation (summer internships possible, contact Prof. Yongli Gao Ygao@pas.rochester.edu )
• Lucent Laboratories (summer internships possible. For Optical Science contact Rochester Alumnus George Fischer gfischer1@lucent.com)
• KLA-Tencor (summer internships possible in Optical Science and Semiconductors. Contact Rochester Alumnus Qun (Joe) Fan Joe.Fan@kla-tencor.com, also http://ktrecruits.com/engineering)
• MIT Lincoln Labs (summer internships possible. Contact Rochester Alumnus Mark Dickson, mrd@ll.mit.edu )
• National Laboratories such as Fermilab and Brookhaven (contact Arie Bodek, bodek@pas.rochester.edu for Accelerator Physics options)

Many Faculty and Staff outside of PAS carry out research, which is often also recognized as "Physics" by the professional community. A list of recent participants and interested faculty from the CDP program. These include faculty who hold joint appointments in PAS, as in Table I, and allied Faculty and Staff, as in Table II.

Table I - U of R Faculty with Joint Appointments in PAS
 
 
 

Faculty Member	Status	Area of Research
Agrawal, Govind P	Professor of Optics (and Physics)	Optical Physics and Lasers
Betti, Ricardo	Associate Prof. of Mech. Engineering (and Physics), and Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Plasma Physics and Fusion
Bocko, Mark F	Professor of Electrical Engineering (and Physics)	Quantum Information/Signal Processing
Boyd, Robert W	Professor of Optics (and Physics)	Optical Physics and Lasers
Conwell, Esther	Professor of Chemistry (and Physics) )	Chemical and Biological Physics
Foster, Thomas H.	Professor of Radiology (and Physics)	Experimental Biological/Medical Physics
Meyerhofer, David D.	Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and Physics), and Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Assistant to the Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Plasma Physics and Fusion, and Optical and Atomic Physics and Lasers
McCrory, Robert I	Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and Physics), Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Plasma Physics and Fusion
Rothberg, Lewis	Professor of Chemistry (and Physics)	Chemical and Condensed Matter Physics
Simon, Albert	Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and Physics), and Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Theoretical Plasma Physics
Spoohower, John	Senior Scientist, Eastman Kodak (and Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics).	Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Stroud, Carlos R., Jr.	Professor of Optics (and Physics)	Experimental Quantum Optics
Thomas, John H.	Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Science (and of Astronomy)	Theoretical Astrophysics and Plasma Physics
Van Horn, Hugh	Director, NSF Astronomy Division (and Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy)	Theoretical Astrophysics
Zhong, Jianhui	Associate Professor of Radiology	Biological and Medical Physics and Imaging

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Name	Position	Principal Area of Research
Berger, Andrew J.	Assistant Professor of Optics	Medical Physics
Brown, Thomas G.	Associate Professor of Optics	Optoelectronics
Chen, Shaw-Horn	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Chemical Physics
Chimowitz, Eldred H	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Chemical Physics
Craxton, Stephen R	Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Plasma Physics, Lasers and Fusion
Donaldson, William R	Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Optical Physics and Lasers
Farrar, James M	Professor of Chemistry	Chemical Physics
Fauchet, Phillippe	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics, Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Material Science, Biological and Optical Physics
Feldman, Marc J	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Quantum Information, Material Science,  Condensed Matter Physics
Fienup, James R.	Professor of Optics	Imaging Processing, Wave Front Sensing
George, Nicholas	Professor of Optics and EE	Optical Physics and Lasers
Goldfarb, David H.	Professor of Biology	Biological aging Physics
Guo,Chunlei	Professor of Optics	Femtosecond laser-matter interactions
Houde-Walter, Susan	Professor of Optics	Optical Physics and Lasers
Hsiang, Thomas Y.	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering	Optoelectronics, Superconductivity, Ultrafast Phenomena
Jacobs, Stephen D.	Professor of Chem E and Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Liquid Crystal Optics
Jones, Thomas B.	Professor of Electrical Engineering	High-speed microactuation of liquid for the laboratory on a chip
Jorne, Jacob	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Chemical Physics
Knauer, Jim	Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Plasma Physics and Fusion
Knox, Wayne H.	Professor of Optics	Ultrafast Optics and Telecommunications
Kraus, Todd	Assistant Professor of Chemistry	Spectroscopy of nanometer-scale materials
Mathews, David	Assist. Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics	Calculational RNA
Machonkin, Tim	Assist. Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics	Biophysics
Moore, Duncan T.	Professor of Optics	Optical Engineering
Ning, Ruola	Associate Professor of Radiology	Medical Physics
Novotny, Lukas	Assistant Professor of Optics	Optical Physics and Lasers
Ovchinnikov, Misha	Assist. Prof of Chemistry	Quantum Molecular Dynamics
Parker, Kevin	Electrical Engineering	Condensed Matter, Biological Physics
Pouget, Alexandre	Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science and Center for Visual Science	Biological Physics,cortical mechanisms of motion and form perception; visual memory
Seka, Wolf	Associate Professor of Optics and Senior Scientist Laboratory for Laser Energetics	Optical Physics and Lasers
Schroder, Wolf-Udo	Professor of Chemistry	Nuclear Chemistry/heavy ions
Sobolewski, Roman	Professor of Electrical Engineering and Senior Scientist, LLE	Ultrafast Optoelectronics, Superconductivity, Quantum communication
Syphers, Mike	Senior Scientist, Fermilab	Accelerator Physics
Teegarden, Kenneth J.	Professor of Optics	Optical Materials
Waag, Robert	Professor of Electrical Engineering	bio-ultrasound; tissue characterization; nondestructive testing
Wicks, Gary	Professor of Optics	Material Science, Condensed Matter Physics, Nano-materials
Williams, David R.	Professor of Psychology and Professor of Optics	Psychological Optics
Wu, David J H	Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Microbiology and Immunology	Biological and Medical Physics
Yang, Hong Magnetic	Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering	Nanoparticles
Yates, Matthew Z.	Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering	Colloids and Interfaces
Zavislan, Jes	Associate Professor of Optics Optical Engineering,	Biomedical Optics