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Current Undergraduate Students
For complete information about undergraduate programs, including first-year subjects, major and minor degree requirements, senior thesis, and UROP
(MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), please refer to the Department of Physics. See also:
Current Graduate Students
For complete information about graduate programs, please refer to the Department of Physics.
Here are quick links to:
- Current Grad Student FAQs
- General Exams
- Housing
- Faculty Research (see faculty bios listed on the MKI and Physics websites; see also MKI affiliated faculty)
- Fiscal Procedures: for Physics’ procedures, contact Physics Finance Department; for MKI, see policies regarding purchasing and travel here: MKI
- MKI Graduate Student Travel Grant Program
- Oral Exam Information
- Orientation: Physics Orientation 2020 for incoming graduate students (please note: the orientation information listed here is for orientation planned for August 2020; the information for 2021 orientation will be updated by Physics in the coming months)
- Orientation: Physics Graduate Student Orientation FAQs (please note: the information currently listed is for graduate students entering fall 2020; the information will be updated by Physics in the coming months)
- Physics Diversity and Inclusion
- Physics Community Values
- Physics Doctoral Candidates: Guidelines
- Physics Graduate Student Activities
- Physics Graduate Thesis FAQs
- Physics Policies for Graduate Students
- Thesis Submission Guidelines
- Tell MKI Your Thesis Defense Date
- Schedule Marlar Lounge for your Thesis Defense (via Zoom until further notice)
- Student Resources for Living and Learning at MIT
- Contact Physics Academic Administrator
- ODGE (Office of the Dean for Graduate Education)
Related Degree Programs
MIT Kavli Institute is an interdisciplinary research center and hosts the research of graduate students from different departments. Admission to these graduate programs is through these departments. Most of our students are in the Physics degree program, but students come from others departments, including:
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- Aeronautics/Astronautics
- Mechanical Engineering
Research Fellowships
- External: Graduate Fellowships
- Internal: The Kavli Graduate Fellowship is awarded through an internal process to a graduate student whose research is in the MIT Kavli Institute, and who is affiliated with an MKI faculty member. Contact Jack Defandorf for additional information.
Top row:
Image (left): MIT Physics graduate student Nicholas Demos (left) shows a LIGO mirror-testing apparatus to Satoshi Tanioka, a visiting student from Sokendai University.
(Credit: Photo courtesy of the researchers.)
Image (center): MIT Physics graduate student Danielle Frostig awaits the lifting of travel restrictions to mount an astronomical instrument she helped develop on the Magellan Telescope in Las Campanas, Chile.
Credits: (Credit: Photo courtesy of Danielle Frostig)
Image (right): MIT Mechanical Engineering graduate student Mallory Whalen measuring the optical properties of a CAT grating inside a temperature-controlled cleanroom enclosure at MKI’s Space Nanotechnology Laboratory (SNL). (Credit: Mallory Whalen)
Second row:
Image (left): MIT Sidewalk Astrogazers doing outreach on Main Street in Kendall Square.
(Credit: MIT Sidewalk Astrogazers)
Image (right): Faculty member Michael McDonald (center) with astrograds Michael Calzadilla (left) and Stephanie O’Neil (right) at an MIT Warrior Scholar event held at the MIT Samberg Center.