Departmental programs

Beginning in September 1965, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., will introduce a new physics undergraduate program designed to prepare students of outstanding promise for productive graduate careers in physics. In the first two years students will be expected to attain the level of a BS degree in the traditional physics curriculum, including modern physics. In the third and fourth years, the students will be prepared for advanced subjects in the physical sciences and may elect to study theoretical or experimental physics, applied physics and engineering, or geophysics, oceanography, and astronomy. Fluid dynamics, including turbulence, and the newer subjects of magnetohydrodynamics and plasma physics will form one of the most important areas of the curriculum. The accompanying mathematics courses will be of a similarly advanced nature and will cover such topics as statistical decision theory, probability, metric spaces and elementary topology, and modern algebra, including group theory. Total enrollment in the honors program will be limited to some twenty students.