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Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Curriculum Requirements
    1. CSI Ph.D.
    2. Physics Ph.D.
  3. Course Notes
  4. Courses Taught
    1. 2013 Fall
    2. 2013 Spring
    3. 2012 Fall
    4. 2012 Spring
    5. 2011 Fall
    6. 2011 Spring
    7. 2010 Fall
    8. 2010 Spring
    9. 2009 Fall
    10. 2009 Spring
    11. 2008 Fall
    12. 2008 Spring
    13. 2007 Fall
    14. 2007 Spring
    15. 2006 Fall
    16. 2006 Spring
    17. 2005 Spring
    18. 2005 Fall
    19. 2004 Fall

1. Introduction

Students wishing to study Space Weather at the graduate level have two options for Ph.D. programs:

  1. Ph.D. in Computational Sciences and Informatics with a concentration in Space Sciences and Computational Astrophysics.
  2. Ph.D. in Physics

Courses listed below can be used to fulfill some of the requirements of both degrees.

The main objective of the Ph.D. program for students wishing to specialize in Space Weather is to train students to be research scientists for future careers in academia, industry, and government. The program provides students with an interdisciplinary academic environment to comprehensively develop their ability/intellect to successfully pursue a scientific career in all aspects of Space Weather. The graduates of this program should therefore be better capable of attacking the interdisciplinary research problems that characterize the new challenges we face in the coming years than students whose graduate coursework and research is entirely within a single discipline.

The basic requirement for entry as a graduate student is a science degree and computational experience. However, the system is flexible and provides opportunities for taking courses to compensate for deficiencies in a student's educational background. We accept full-time and part-time graduate students.

2. Curriculum Requirements

2.1. CSI Ph.D.

For the Ph.D. in Computational and Data Sciences [1], there is a Space Sciences and Computational Astrophysics concentration with the following requirements:

  • CSI 785 Electromagnetic Theory
  • CSI 661 Astrophysics, or CSI 662 Space Weather
  • CSI 769 Space Plasma Physics, or CSI 764 Computational Astrophysics,
  • Two from: CSI 763 Statistical Methods in Space Sciences, CSI 780 Computational Physics and Applications, CSI 782 Statistical Mechanics for Modeling and Simulation, CSI 783 Computational Quantum Mechanics, CSI 721 Computational Fluid Dynamics

2.2. Physics Ph.D.

See [2]

3. Course Notes

See Courses Taught for a list of past and present course taught by GMU faculty.

CSI 796 (Directed Reading and Research) Depending on interest and needs of students, reading courses on Space Weather topics may be offered:

  • Special Topics in Solar, Heliospheric, Magnetospheric, and Ionospheric Physics
  • Special Topics in Processes and Techniques: Radiative transfer, spectroscopy, space-based data analysis, etc.

CSI 769/ASTR 769 (Topics in Space Sciences) Courses under this heading vary by semester. Previous courses include

  • Magnetospheric Physics
    • Large-scale current systems
    • Ionospheric convection
    • Geomagnetic storms and substorms
    • Waves
    • Solar wind driving of geomagnetic activity
    • The radiation belt
    • The plasma sheet
  • Plasma Physics
    • An introductory course on space plasma physics
  • Introduction to the Space Environment
    • Applicable physics concepts: charged particle orbits, Maxwell and fluid equations, Ohm's law, diamagnetism, ionization, excitation and radiation. The solar cycle and basic phenomenology of the solar atmosphere and corona
    • Solar wind and the earth's bow shock,
    • The magnetosphere and geomagnetism,
    • The ionosphere, radio propagation in the ionosphere, and satellite environment effects.
  • Solar Atmosphere. Internal Structure and convection zone, magnetic cycle and solar dynamo; solar atmosphere, observations, spectra, spectroscopy, non-LTE radiative transfer, plasma properties; solar wind observations and theory; solar activity, flares, coronal mass ejections and solar energetic particles; coronal heating, magnetic recombination, MHD, and acceleration and transport of energetic particles.

4. Courses Taught

4.1. 2013 Fall

  • Zhang - CDS 130
  • Weigel - Seminar in the Space Sciences
  • Weigel - Space Plasma Physics

4.2. 2013 Spring

  • Weigel - CDS 130
  • Zhang - CDS 130
  • Shebalin - (Reading course) MHD Turbulence
  • Poland - (Reading course) Introduction to spectroscopic data analysis

4.3. 2012 Fall

  • Zhang - Astrophysics
  • Weigel - Statistical Methods in the Space Sciences
  • Weigel - Seminar in the Space Sciences
  • Pulkkinen - Space Weather: Physics, Applications and Operations (at Catholic University of America)

4.4. 2012 Spring

  • Zhang - Introduction to Space Weather
  • Weigel - CDS 130 - Computing for Scientists (hybrid distance ed. section) [3]

4.5. 2011 Fall

  • Weigel - CSI 769 - Space Plasma Physics [4]
  • Zhang - CDS 130 - Computing for Scientists [5]
  • Poland - (Reading course) Introduction to spectroscopic data analysis

4.6. 2011 Spring

4.7. 2010 Fall

List of all Astronomy, CDS, CSI, and Physics Course [6]

4.8. 2010 Spring

4.9. 2009 Fall

4.10. 2009 Spring

4.11. 2008 Fall

4.12. 2008 Spring

4.13. 2007 Fall

4.14. 2007 Spring

4.15. 2006 Fall

4.16. 2006 Spring

4.17. 2005 Spring

4.18. 2005 Fall

4.19. 2004 Fall

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