Empower Yourself - Student Guide to the University of Texas at Austin Physics Department

University of Texas at Austin or commonly known as UT Austin, is one of the original eight public Ivy institutions. With about fifty thousand students enrolling for its various academic and research programs, it is the largest member of the University of Texas system. The physics department at UT Austin is considered to be among the best across the world, and is currently ranked eleventh in the US by the National Research Council.

The department boasts of two Nobel Prize winners in its faculty, five National Academy of Science members, and an even mix of experimentalists and theorists. Areas of research at the UT Austin Physics Department cover atomic, optical, and molecular physics, plasma physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, fluid dynamics, relativity, and cosmology, statistical mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, and elementary particle physics.

The UT Austin Physics Department is housed in the Robert Lee Moore hall at 1 University Station, Austin; where it occupies over 190,000 square feet of space with state of the art laboratories.

The department hosts weekly seminars and colloquia on almost every aspect in physics. The weekly schedules are updated on the department's website. These seminars are quite informative and range from topics like Physics Colloquia, Complex Quantum Systems, Condensed Matter, Nonlinear Dynamics, Particles and Fields, and even Chemistry and Biochemistry.

The graduate programs at UT Austin Department of Physics enroll about 270 students who also get the opportunity to perform duties of teaching assistants. The scholars are advised to identify their area of interest and select advisors near the beginning of their program.