Graduate study in physical acoustics at the University of Mississippi

Abstract

The University of Mississippi is a Ph.D. granting institution with an R1 Carnegie designation placing it among schools with the highest level of research activity. The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Ole Miss has a diverse range of research opportunities, including two groups associated with recent Nobel Prizes. Along with programs in Computational Physics, High Energy Physics, Atmospheric Physics and Gravitation, the department is affiliated with the National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA). NCPA is an 85 000 square foot standalone facility on the campus of the University of Mississippi dedicated to the physics and engineering applications of acoustics. It has research groups dedicated to ultrasound, infrasound, aeroacoustics, atmospheric propagation, porous media, and ocean acoustics. Graduate students in physics and engineering are pursuing Ph.D. and M.S. degrees at NCPA, and four faculty members from the Physics department have their research laboratories in the facility. In addition to NCPA, the Physics department has affiliations with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), The European Center for Particle Physics (CERN), Fermilab and Belle II.