Education

Ph.D. students enter the SELIM program from 6 departments that span the schools of Arts & Sciences and Engineering at UVa. Departmental coursework and Ph.D. candidacy requirements vary considerably with discipline. Nevertheless, most SELIM students elect to take several courses from the following list:

Phys 531	Optics
Phys 533	Optics Laboratory
Phys 532	Fundamentals of Photonics
Phys 534	Photonics Laboratory
MAE 612	Microscale Heat Transfer
Chem 722	Reaction Kinetics and Dynamics
MSE 722/EP 733	Surface Science
EP 734	Processing of Materials by Electrons, Ions, & Lasers
Phys 822	Lasers and Non-linear Optics
Chem 825	Quantum Dynamics with Applications to Spectroscopy
Phys 826	Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy
Phys 888	Quantum Optics
Within their first two years, all SELIM fellows enroll in a professional development course,
Chem 702/Phys 702	Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Ethics
and an introductory seminar course,
Phys 951	Introduction to the Science and Engineering of Laser Interactions with Matter