Graduate Programs

A popular and successful innovation of the Centers is an academic course entitled Interdisciplinary Chemistry, Engineering and Physics for graduate stuents and undergraduates.

In 2003, the course focused on Nanoscale Science and Engineering with Harvard faculty and selected visitors from various disciplines presenting topics from: Growth of Nanoscale Structures, Imaging Electrons inside Nanostructures, and Spins and Charges in Coherent Electronics. More information can be found on the course website at http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~apphy298/.

In 2005, a course entitled Materials Chemistry and Physics will be offered, targeted at graduate students with undergraduate concentrations in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and geology.

To promote the training of students, the Centers make their Shared Experimental Facilities available to several academic courses. Center faculty and technical staff also provide short courses on experimental techniques such as Rutherford ion backscattering analysis and electron microscopy.