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There are many students working at other research institutes near SBU. If you would like to contact someone and need help getting contact information then please reach out to sbupgsa@gmail.com.
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==Cold Spring Harbor==
 
==Cold Spring Harbor==
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Several Stony Brook Physics students find an advisor and pursue PhD thesis research at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory (between NYC and Huntington). For more information please see [https://www.cshl.edu/ their website].
 
===Biophysics and Engineering===
 
===Biophysics and Engineering===
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CSHL specializes in biophysics and engineering, which yes, does not sound like physics, but at the same time there is a lot of room for the experimental and theoretical techniques of physics to make significant progress in microscopic, as well as more theoretical (evolutionary) biology.
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Several students have worked at CSHL recently and would be willing to talk.
  
 
==Brookhaven National Lab==
 
==Brookhaven National Lab==
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It is very common for students at SBU to work either full time or part time at BNL. There are many potential advisors who spend similar amounts of time at BNL and at Stony Brook, and there are several strong collaborations between groups at both institutions.
 
===Condensed Matter and AMO===
 
===Condensed Matter and AMO===
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BNL has the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II - just built in the last few years for about $1 Billion) which does a lot of chemistry, materials science, condensed matter physics, and x-ray diffraction experiments. Getting time on the NSLS II is something that graduate students can forseeably do within the time span of a PhD thesis, so if defining your own research projects sounds fun then you should investigate research groups around BNL and SBU that are already using this resource.
 
===Lattice Nuclear Theory===
 
===Lattice Nuclear Theory===
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Sergey Syritsin is a new Lattice QCD professor at SBU who collaborates heavily with the Lattice Theory group at BNL, and several students at SBU are already working with him and others at BNL.
 
===Heavy Ion Physics===
 
===Heavy Ion Physics===
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The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) draws thousands of researchers to work on heavy ion collision experiments, both at RHIC and at the LHC. It should be fairly straightforward to find experimentalist and theorist advisors working on interesting physics for past, current, and future heavy ion physics and the phase diagram of QCD.
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===Astronomy===
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There are several researchers at BNL and SBU who do astronomy, particle astrophysics, and cosmology using resources at BNL, and they have given Friday Afternoon Seminar talks searching for PhD students and have taken other students recently.
  
 
==Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)==
 
==Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)==
===Computational Biology===
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Mathematical and computational physics has a (relatively new) resource available at SBU in IACS, which is both a research institute for various scientists and engineers across various disciplines, as well as the home of a super computer that researchers across SBU can request access on for their research, even if they aren't affiliated directly or have an office in IACS.
===Applied Math===
 
===Condensed Matter===
 
  
 
==Laufer Center==
 
==Laufer Center==
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The Laufer Center focuses on physically rigorous biology research.
 
===Biophysics===
 
===Biophysics===
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Ken Dill of the physics department is the head of the Laufer Center for Biology, and he is stepping back into a more research intensive role recently. He gave a Friday Afternoon Seminar talk looking for PhD students recently that delved into interesting modeling opportunities in cell energy cycles, among other things. He is certainly a good resource for finding similar research opportunities.
  
 
==Chemistry==
 
==Chemistry==
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There are several opportunities to pursue AMO and Nuclear physics research in the neighboring Chemistry department as a physics student.
 
===Tom Allison's AMO Lab===
 
===Tom Allison's AMO Lab===
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Tom Allison has his lab space in the Chemistry building, but he is definitely a Laser-AMO physicist, doing large amounts of research in various subfields of interest for fundamental quantum mechanics as well as materials science.
 
===Nuclear Chemistry===
 
===Nuclear Chemistry===
 
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There are several BNL-Physics-Chemistry affiliated professors who do what is called "Nuclear Chemistry" which is just a fancy term for the complicated interactions taking place at RHIC and the LHC in the high intensity era.
 
[[Category:Incoming student portal]]
 
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Revision as of 15:01, 22 June 2018

Research Groups and advice for working outside the Physics and Astronomy Department

There are many students working at other research institutes near SBU. If you would like to contact someone and need help getting contact information then please reach out to sbupgsa@gmail.com.

Cold Spring Harbor

Several Stony Brook Physics students find an advisor and pursue PhD thesis research at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratory (between NYC and Huntington). For more information please see their website.

Biophysics and Engineering

CSHL specializes in biophysics and engineering, which yes, does not sound like physics, but at the same time there is a lot of room for the experimental and theoretical techniques of physics to make significant progress in microscopic, as well as more theoretical (evolutionary) biology. Several students have worked at CSHL recently and would be willing to talk.

Brookhaven National Lab

It is very common for students at SBU to work either full time or part time at BNL. There are many potential advisors who spend similar amounts of time at BNL and at Stony Brook, and there are several strong collaborations between groups at both institutions.

Condensed Matter and AMO

BNL has the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II - just built in the last few years for about $1 Billion) which does a lot of chemistry, materials science, condensed matter physics, and x-ray diffraction experiments. Getting time on the NSLS II is something that graduate students can forseeably do within the time span of a PhD thesis, so if defining your own research projects sounds fun then you should investigate research groups around BNL and SBU that are already using this resource.

Lattice Nuclear Theory

Sergey Syritsin is a new Lattice QCD professor at SBU who collaborates heavily with the Lattice Theory group at BNL, and several students at SBU are already working with him and others at BNL.

Heavy Ion Physics

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) draws thousands of researchers to work on heavy ion collision experiments, both at RHIC and at the LHC. It should be fairly straightforward to find experimentalist and theorist advisors working on interesting physics for past, current, and future heavy ion physics and the phase diagram of QCD.

Astronomy

There are several researchers at BNL and SBU who do astronomy, particle astrophysics, and cosmology using resources at BNL, and they have given Friday Afternoon Seminar talks searching for PhD students and have taken other students recently.

Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)

Mathematical and computational physics has a (relatively new) resource available at SBU in IACS, which is both a research institute for various scientists and engineers across various disciplines, as well as the home of a super computer that researchers across SBU can request access on for their research, even if they aren't affiliated directly or have an office in IACS.

Laufer Center

The Laufer Center focuses on physically rigorous biology research.

Biophysics

Ken Dill of the physics department is the head of the Laufer Center for Biology, and he is stepping back into a more research intensive role recently. He gave a Friday Afternoon Seminar talk looking for PhD students recently that delved into interesting modeling opportunities in cell energy cycles, among other things. He is certainly a good resource for finding similar research opportunities.

Chemistry

There are several opportunities to pursue AMO and Nuclear physics research in the neighboring Chemistry department as a physics student.

Tom Allison's AMO Lab

Tom Allison has his lab space in the Chemistry building, but he is definitely a Laser-AMO physicist, doing large amounts of research in various subfields of interest for fundamental quantum mechanics as well as materials science.

Nuclear Chemistry

There are several BNL-Physics-Chemistry affiliated professors who do what is called "Nuclear Chemistry" which is just a fancy term for the complicated interactions taking place at RHIC and the LHC in the high intensity era.