天文学与天体物理学博士学位

天文学与天体物理学系提供的研究生课程
The graduate program in Astronomy and Astrophysics is offered by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, leading to the Doctor of Philosophy. In some cases, the Department may admit students to the Master of Science as preliminary phase before proceeding to the PhD.<br>The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics is actively engaged in a wide range of observational and theoretical research on solar system dynamics, stars, stellar systems, the interstellar medium, the Galaxy, galaxies, quasars, clusters of galaxies, cosmology, and problems in general relativity. The Department has close ties with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and the Dunlap Institute, which further enhance the opportunities for our students to interact with leading researchers. Faculty and students use the major optical, radio, and satellite observing facilities of the world and are engaged in many large survey projects. We have an active experimental program using telescopes on long-duration stratospheric balloons and a complementary program designing and building instrumentation for optical, millimetre, and radio telescopes.<br>This track is a four-year program focused on a doctoral thesis project for students who enter with an MSc degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics or in another appropriate discipline deemed equivalent. There is no minimum course requirement in the four-year program except for courses deemed necessary by the student's PhD supervisory committee. Students must successfully complete the two parts of the PhD qualifying examinations (general knowledge and thesis proposal) in the summer session of the first year.