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In a fit of procrastination, I wrote a small program to mine the historical course offerings of the University of Rochester's Physics department from the Registrar's website. Here are all of the graduate courses offered by this department since 1993:


PHY 401 Mathematical Methods of Optics and Physics (required first-year course)

1993,Fall,401,RAJEEV S
1994,Fall,401,WOLF E
1995,Fall,401,WOLF E
1996,Fall,401,WOLF E
1997,Fall,401,WOLF E
1998,Fall,401,WOLF E
1999,Fall,401,MELISSINOS
2000,Fall,401,RAJEEV S
2001,Fall,401,RAJEEV S
2002,Fall,401,HAGEN C
2003,Fall,401,ALONSO M
2004,Fall,401,ALONSO M
2005,Fall,401,ALONSO M
2006,Fall,401,ALONSO M

PHY 402 Probability (required first-year course)

1993,Spring,402,LOBKOWICZ
1994,Spring,402,RAJEEV S
1995,Spring,402,RAJEEV S
1996,Spring,402,RAJEEV S
1997,Spring,402,LAVINE R
1998,Spring,402,LAVINE R
1999,Spring,402,LAVINE R
2000,Spring,402,LAVINE R
2001,Spring,402,LAVINE R
2002,Spring,402,LAVINE R
2003,Spring,402,RAJEEV S
2004,Spring,402,SHAPIR Y
2005,Spring,402,SHAPIR Y
2006,Spring,402,RAJEEV S
2007,Spring,402,RAJEEV S or the course may be eliminated

PHY 403 (Unknown course, not offered anymore.)

1993,Fall,403,RAJEEV S
1994,Fall,403,WOLF E

PHY 404 Linear Spaces (required first-year course)

1993,Spring,404,LOBKOWICZ
1994,Spring,404,RAJEEV S
1995,Spring,404,RAJEEV S
1996,Spring,404,RAJEEV S
1997,Spring,404,LAVINE R
1998,Spring,404,LAVINE R
1999,Spring,404,LAVINE R
2000,Spring,404,LAVINE R
2001,Spring,404,LAVINE R
2002,Spring,404,LAVINE R
2003,Spring,404,RAJEEV S
2004,Spring,404,SHAPIR Y
2005,Spring,404,SHAPIR Y
2006,Spring,404,RAJEEV S
2007,Spring,404,RAJEEV S or the course may be eliminated

PHY 405 Geometric Methods of Physics (Differential Geometry)

1993,Spring,405,RAJEEV S
1999,Fall,405,RAJEEV S
2004,Spring,405,RAJEEV S

PHY 406 Symmetries in Physics (Group Theory)

1993,Fall,406,MATHUR V
1995,Fall,406,MATHUR V
1997,Fall,406,MELISSINOS

PHY 407 Quantum Mechanics I (required first-year course)

1993,Fall,407,KNOX R
1994,Fall,407,LOBKOWICZ
1995,Fall,407,LOBKOWICZ
1996,Fall,407,LOBKOWICZ
1997,Fall,407,DAS A
1998,Fall,407,DAS A
1999,Fall,407,SHAPIR Y
2000,Fall,407,HAGEN C
2001,Fall,407,DAS A
2002,Fall,407,SHAPIR Y
2003,Fall,407,HAGEN C
2004,Fall,407,HAGEN C
2005,Fall,407,RAJEEV S
2006,Fall,407,Bigelow or Howell

PHY 408 Quantum Mechanics II (required first-year course)

1993,Spring,408,HAGEN C
1994,Spring,408,KNOX R
1995,Spring,408,LOBKOWICZ
1996,Spring,408,LOBKOWICZ
1997,Spring,408,LOBKOWICZ
1998,Spring,408,RAJEEV S
1999,Spring,408,RAJEEV S
2000,Spring,408,SHAPIR Y
2001,Spring,408,SHAPIR Y
2002,Spring,408,DAS A
2003,Spring,408,HAGEN C
2004,Spring,408,HAGEN C
2005,Spring,408,HAGEN C
2006,Spring,408,HAGEN C
2007,Spring,408,SHAPIR

PHY 411 Mechanics and Chaotic Dynamics (Classical Mechanics)

1993,Fall,411,HAGEN C
2000,Spring,411,RAJEEV S
2002,Spring,411,RAJEEV S
2005,Spring,411,RAJEEV S
2006,Spring,411,RAJEEV S

PHY 412 Computational Methods for Engineering and Science

2002,Spring,412,MCCRORY R
2004,Spring,412,MCCRORY R
2006,Spring,412,MCCRORY R

PHY 413 Gravitation (General Relativity)

1993,Fall,413,HELFER H
1995,Spring,413,DAS A
1997,Spring,413,DAS A
1999,Spring,413,MELISSINOS
2000,Fall,413,MELISSINOS
2004,Fall,413,DAS A

PHY 415 Electromagnetic Theory I (required first-year course)

1993,Fall,415,WOLF E
1994,Fall,415,FERBEL T
1995,Fall,415,MELISSINOS
1996,Fall,415,FERBEL T
1997,Fall,415,FERBEL T
1998,Fall,415,MELISSINOS
1999,Fall,415,DAS A
2000,Fall,415,DAS A
2001,Fall,415,HAGEN C
2002,Fall,415,TEITEL S
2003,Fall,415,TEITEL S
2004,Fall,415,TEITEL S
2005,Fall,415,HAGEN C
2006,Fall,415,DAS

PHY 418 Statistical Mechanics I (required first-year course)

1993,Spring,418,SHAPIR Y
1994,Spring,418,KOLTUN D
1995,Spring,418,KOLTUN D
1996,Spring,418,SHAPIR Y
1997,Spring,418,SHAPIR Y
1998,Spring,418,SHAPIR Y
1999,Spring,418,KOLTUN D
2000,Spring,418,KOLTUN D
2001,Spring,418,KOLTUN D
2002,Spring,418,TEITEL S
2003,Spring,418,SHAPIR Y
2004,Spring,418,TEITEL S
2005,Spring,418,TEITEL S
2006,Spring,418,TEITEL S
2007,Spring,418,TEITEL S

PHY 420 Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics

2000,Fall,420,TSYBESKOV
2001,Fall,420,HSIANG T
2004,Fall,420,WU W
2004,Spring,420,WU W
2006,Fall,420,TEITEL

PHY 421 Seminar in the Physics of Medical Imaging

2005,Spring,421,FOSTER T P
2006,Spring,421,FOSTER T P
2007,Spring,421,FOSTER

PHY 422 Medical Imaging Theory and Implementation

2004,Spring,422,PARKER K
2005,Spring,422,PARKER K
2006,Spring,422,PARKER K
7,Spring,422,TBA

PHY 423 Reading Course: Topics in Health Physics

2006,Fall,423,SCHELL

PHY 424 Biological Physics
PHY 425 Physics of Radiotherapy I

2006,Fall,425,SCHELL

PHY 426 Physics of Radiotherapy I

1993,Fall,426,MCKINSTRIE
1994,Fall,426,MCKINSTRIE
1995,Fall,426,MEYERHOFFE
1997,Fall,426,MEYERHOFER
1998,Fall,426,MEYERHOFER
1999,Fall,426,MEYERHOFER
2000,Fall,426,SIMON A

PHY 427 Physics of Radiobiology I

1993,Spring,427,BETTI R
1995,Spring,427,SIMON A
1998,Spring,427,SIMON A
2000,Spring,427,SIMON A
2001,Fall,427,BETTI R
2005,Fall,427,KENG P

PHY 428 Physics of Radiobiology II

2006,Spring,428,KENG P
7,Spring,428,KENG P

PHY 431 Nano-optics

2004,Fall,431,NOVOTNY L
2005,Fall,431,NOVOTNY L
2006,Fall,431,NOVOTNY L

PHY 435 Laser Systems

2003,Spring,435,HOUDE-WALT
2004,Spring,435,HOUDE-WALT
2005,Spring,435,GUO C
2006,Spring,435,GUO C
2007,Spring,435,TBA

PHY 436 Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure

2006,Fall,436,TBA

PHY 437 Nonlinear Optics

2003,Spring,437,BOYD R
2004,Spring,437,BOYD R
2005,Spring,437,BOYD R
2006,Spring,437,BOYD R
2007,Spring,437,TBA OPT

PHY 438 Optical Communications Systems

2002,Fall,438,AGRAWAL G
2003,Fall,438,AGRAWAL G
2004,Fall,438,AGRAWAL G
2005,Fall,438,AGRAWAL G
2006,Fall,438,AGRAWAL G

PHY 439 Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

2003,Spring,439,MUKAMEL S
2007,Spring,439,TBA CHEMISTRY

PHY 440 20th Century High Energy Physics

2002,Fall,440,THORNDIKE
2003,Fall,440,FERBEL T
2005,Fall,440,DAS A

2000,Spring,442,PIPHER J

PHY 445 Advanced Experiments in Nuclear, Particle

2004,Fall,445,HOWELL J
2005,Fall,445,BIGELOW N
2006,Fall,445,HOWELL or BIGELOW

PHY 446 Nuclear Chemistry I

2004,Spring,446,SCHROEDER
2007,Spring,446,TBA Chemistry

PHY 454 Introduction to Plasma Physics 1

2002,Fall,454,GONCHAROV
2003,Fall,454,MEYERHOFER
2004,Fall,454,MEYERHOFER
2005,Fall,454,MEYERHOFER
2006,Fall,454,MEYERHOFER

PHY 455 Introduction to Plasma Physics II

2003,Spring,455,MEYERHOFER
2005,Spring,455,REN C
2007,Spring,455,TBA MechEng

PHY 456 Compressible Flow

2002,Fall,456,THOMAS J
2004,Fall,456,GONCHAROV
2006,Fall,456,TBA MechEng

PHY 457 Incompressible Flow

2003,Fall,457,THOMAS J
2005,Fall,457,GONCHAROV
2006,Fall,457,Goncharov (MechEng)

PHY 475 Experimental Particle Physics for High School Teachers

PHY 476 Medical Optics

2005,Fall,476,BERGER A
2006,Fall,472,BERGER A

PHY 490 Seminar in the Physics of Radiation Oncology and
PHY 491 Master's Reading in Physics
PHY 492 Certificate in Teaching of College Physics or Physics and
PHY 493 Special Topics in Physics I

2006,Spring,493,REN C

PHY 509 Introduction to Non-Relativistic Many Body Systems

1993,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
1994,Fall,509,RAJEEV S
1997,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
1998,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
1999,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
2000,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
2002,Spring,509,SHAPIR Y
2003,Fall,509,KOLTUN D
2005,Fall,509,SHAPIR Y
2006,Fall,590,SHAPIR Y

PHY 510 Advanced Quantum Mechanics (Relativistic)

1993,Fall,510,DAS A
1994,Fall,510,DAS A
1995,Fall,510,DAS A
1996,Fall,510,RAJEEV S
1998,Spring,510,KOLTUN D
2000,Spring,510,DAS A
2001,Fall,510,KOLTUN D
2002,Fall,510,KOLTUN D
2004,Fall,510,RAJEEV S
2004,Spring,510,DAS A
2007,Spring,510,HAGEN

PHY 511 Field Theory

1993,Spring,511,DAS A
1994,Spring,511,MATHUR V
1995,Spring,511,MATHUR V
1996,Spring,511,MATHUR V
1997,Spring,511,RAJEEV S
1999,Spring,511,DAS A
2000,Fall,511,RAJEEV S
2003,Fall,511,DAS A

PHY 512 Renormalization

2001,Spring,512,DAS A
2003,Spring,512,DAS A
2005,Spring,512,DAS A

PHY 513 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: from Spins to Brains

2004,Fall,513,BAVELIER D
2005,Fall,513,BAVELIER D
2006,Fall,513,BAVELIER D
2007,Spring,513,ZHONG
PHY 516 Electromagnetic Theory II

1994,Spring,516,ORR L
1996,Spring,516,ORR L
1998,Spring,516,ORR L
2000,Spring,516,FERBEL T
2002,Fall,516,DAS A
2004,Spring,516,FERBEL T

PHY 519 Statistical Mechanics II

1995,Spring,519,SHAPIR Y
1996,Fall,519,SHAPIR Y
1998,Fall,519,SHAPIR Y
2001,Fall,519,SHAPIR Y
2004,Fall,519,SHAPIR Y

PHY 521 Condensed Matter I

1993,Fall,521,SHAPIR Y
1994,Fall,521,GAO Y
1997,Fall,521,SHAPIR Y
1999,Fall,521,WU W
1999,Spring,521,SHAPIR Y
2000,Fall,521,GAO Y
2001,Fall,521,GAO Y
2002,Fall,521,GAO Y
2003,Fall,521,GAO Y

PHY 522 Condensed Matter Physics II

1993,Spring,522,TEITEL S
1994,Spring,522,SHAPIR Y
1995,Spring,522,GAO Y
1997,Spring,522,STAFF
1998,Spring,522,WU W
2001,Spring,522,TEITEL S

PHY 523 Special Topics in Solid State Physics

1996,Spring,523,FAUCHET P
1998,Spring,523,FAUCHET P

PHY 524 Special Topics in Solid State Physics

1995,Fall,524,SHAPIR Y
2000,Fall,524,SHAPIR Y
2003,Fall,524,SHAPIR Y

PHY 527 Computational Neuroscience in Physics

1998,Spring,527,BETTI R
2006,Spring,527,POUGHET [it looks like this got uncrosslisted with the registrar]

PHY 531 Introduction to Quantum Optics

1993,Fall,531,EBERLY J
1994,Fall,531,EBERLY J
1995,Fall,531,EBERLY J
1996,Fall,531,EBERLY J
1997,Fall,531,STROUD C
1998,Fall,531,EBERLY J
1999,Fall,531,EBERLY J S
2000,Fall,531,EBERLY J
2001,Fall,531,EBERLY J
2002,Fall,531,STROUD C
2003,Fall,531,STROUD C
2004,Fall,531,STROUD C
2005,Fall,531,EBERLY J
2006,Fall,531,EBERLY or STROUD

PHY 532 Quantum Optics of the Electromagnetic Field

1993,Spring,532,MANDEL L
1994,Spring,532,MANDEL L
1995,Spring,532,MANDEL L
1996,Spring,532,MANDEL L
1997,Spring,532,MANDEL L
1998,Spring,532,STROUD C
2001,Spring,532,WALMSLEY I
2002,Spring,532,MELISSINOS
2004,Spring,532,HOWELL J

PHY 533 Quantum Optics of the Atom-Field Interaction

1996,Spring,533,WOLF E
1999,Spring,533,BIGELOW N
2000,Fall,533,STROUD C
2000,Spring,533,WOLF E
2001,Fall,533,STROUD C
2002,Fall,533,EBERLY J
2003,Fall,533,EBERLY J
2004,Fall,533,EBERLY J
2005,Fall,533,STROUD C
2006,Fall,522,EBERLY or STROUD

PHY 534 Mechanical Effects in the Atom-Field Interaction

1995,Spring,534,WOLF E
1996,Spring,534,BIGELOW N
1997,Spring,534,WOLF E
1999,Spring,534,WOLF E
2001,Spring,534,WOLF E
2002,Spring,534,WOLF E
2005,Spring,534,BIGELOW N

PHY 535 Modern Coherence Theory

1999,Spring,535,SIMON A
2002,Spring,535,MEYERHOFER
2005,Fall,535,WOLF E
2007,Spring,535,Maybe Wolf OR p537

PHY 536 Special Topics in Quantum Optics

2000,Spring,536,BIGELOW E

PHY 537 Statistical Optics

2003,Spring,537,WOLF E

PHY 538 Advanced Topics in Light Wave Technologies

2003,Spring,538,AGRAWAL G
2007,Spring,538,TBA

PHY 539 Waveguide Optoelectronic Devices

2004,Spring,539,MARCIANTE
2005,Spring,539,AGRAWAL G
2006,Spring,539,AGRAWAL G
2007,Spring,539,TBA

PHY 541 Nuclear Structure I

1994,Fall,541,KOLTUN D

PHY 542 Nuclear Structure II

1993,Spring,542,CLINE D
1995,Spring,542,CLINE D

PHY 546 Nuclear Science and Technology II

2005,Fall,546,SCHROEDER

PHY 552 Magnetohydrodynamics

2001,Spring,552,THOMAS J
2005,Fall,552,THOMAS J

PHY 553 Laser-Plasma Interactions

2004,Spring,553,MAXIMOV A
2006,Spring,553,MAXIMOV A
2007,Spring,553,TBA

PHY 554 Cosmology

2001,Fall,554,ORR L FRAN
2003,Fall,554,FRANK A
2006,Spring,554,MELISSINOS
2006,Fall,554,MELISSINOS

PHY 555 Advanced Topics in Plasma Physics

2001,Spring,555,BETTI R
2003,Spring,555,MCKINSTRIE
2007,Spring,555,TBA

PHY 556 Hydrodynamic Stability and Turbulence

2003,Spring,556,BETTI R
2005,Spring,556,STAFF
2006,Spring,556,BETTI R
2007,Spring,556,TBA

PHY 557 Plasma Stability

2004,Spring,557,BETTI R
2007,Spring,557,TBA

PHY 564 Seminar on High Energy Astrophysics

2001,Fall,564,BLACKMAN E
2003,Fall,564,BLACKMAN E
2005,Fall,564,BLACKMAN E

PHY 581 Particle Physics I

1993,Fall,581,LOBKOWICZ
1994,Fall,581,TIPTON P
1996,Fall,581,THORNDIKE
1998,Fall,581,THORNDIKE
2000,Fall,581,THORNDIKE
2001,Fall,581,THORNDIKE
2003,Fall,581,THORNDIKE
2005,Fall,581,THORNDIKE

PHY 582 Particle Physics II

1993,Spring,582,THORNDIKE
1994,Spring,582,LOBKOWICZ
1995,Spring,582,ORR L
1999,Spring,582,ORR L
2001,Spring,582,ORR L
2002,Fall,582,ORR L
2004,Fall,582,ORR L
2006,Fall,582,ORR L

PHY 584 Special Topics in Particle Physics

1995,Fall,584,RAJEEV S


Summers were excluded from the search.

Date: 2006-01-12 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] furzicle.livejournal.com
what curiousity of yours prompted this endeavor?

Date: 2006-01-12 06:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com
Generally our dissatisfaction with the sparsity of offerings this coming semester. I've been lobbying to get Physics 405 offered again—I was surprised to find that it's only been offered every 5-6 years!

Date: 2006-01-12 06:46 pm (UTC)
ext_3729: All six issues-to-date of GUD Magazine. (Default)
From: [identity profile] kaolinfire.livejournal.com
Nifty. :)

PHY 404 Linear Spaces (required first-year course) -- may be eliminated?

With or without the requirement being dropped? ;)

Date: 2006-01-12 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com
unknown!

I linked to the program, though it's just a quick and dirty perl script.

It screenscrapes from these web pages: http://www.uis.rochester.edu/cschd/

Date: 2006-01-12 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com
The raw output is here:

http://web.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/dept/courses.txt

Surprisingly, I think I can do whatever SQL-style queries I want on the data just using sort and grep. Apparently sort has options to specify field deliminators (in this case, comma), and then you can tell it to sort by specific fields in a certain order, as opposed to just sorting the complete lines lexically.

Date: 2006-01-12 10:18 pm (UTC)
ext_3729: All six issues-to-date of GUD Magazine. (Default)
From: [identity profile] kaolinfire.livejournal.com
yeah, sort rocks. I only recently re-remembered a few days ago about multi-column sort. Thoguh I apparently didn't post anything about it in the relevant post because it didn't wind up being relevant. ;)

Some of my other favorite commands are tr and cut. :)

Astronomy Courses

Date: 2006-01-12 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com
sorted by term: http://web.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/dept/courses-ast.txt
sorted by course: http://web.pas.rochester.edu/~tobin/dept/courses-ast-by-course.txt


Re: Astronomy Courses

Date: 2006-01-12 07:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nibot.livejournal.com
AST 403 Experimental Techniques in Astronomy

403,1993,Fall,WATSON D
403,1995,Fall,WATSON D
403,1997,Fall,WATSON D
403,1999,Fall,WATSON D
403,2001,Fall,FORREST W
403,2003,Fall,FORREST W
403,2005,Fall,FORREST W

432,2000,Fall,FORREST W

441,2001,Spring,PIPHER J
441,2003,Spring,FORREST W

AST 450 Stellar Atmospheres

450,1993,Spring,MUSLIMOV A

AST 453 Introduction to Stellar Interiors and Stellar Atmospheres

453,1996,Fall,PIPHER J
453,2002,Spring,FORREST W
453,2004,Fall,BLACKMAN E
453,2006,Spring,FORREST W

AST 455 Astronomical Interferometry

455,1996,Spring,WATSON D

AST 461 The Physics of Astrophysics I

461,1997,Fall,FORREST W
461,1998,Fall,FORREST W
461,2000,Fall,BLACKMAN E
461,2002,Spring,BLACKMAN E
461,2004,Spring,FORREST W

AST 462 The Physics of Astrophysics II

462,1998,Spring,FRANK A
462,1999,Spring,WATSON D
462,2001,Spring,FRANK A
462,2003,Spring,BLACKMAN E
462,2005,Spring,BLACKMAN E

AST 465 Observational Galactic Structure

465,1995,Fall,FORREST W
465,1995,Spring,STAFF
465,1997,Spring,STAFF

491,1993,Fall,STAFF

AST 551 Diffuse Matter in Space

551,1994,Fall,WARDLE M

AST 552 Galactic Dynamics

552,2002,Fall,QUILLEN A
552,2004,Fall,FRANK A

AST 553 Stellar Interiors

553,1994,Spring,WARDLE M

AST 554 Cosmology

554,1993,Fall,HELFER H
554,1997,Spring,DAS A
554,1999,Spring,MELISSINOS A
554,2000,Fall,MELISSINOS A
554,2001,Fall,ORR L FRANK A
554,2003,Fall,FRANK A
554,2006,Spring,MELISSINOS A

AST 564 Seminar on High Energy Astrophysics

564,1993,Fall,STAFF
564,1994,Spring,STAFF
564,1995,Spring,MUSLIMOV A
564,1996,Spring,STAFF
564,2001,Fall,BLACKMAN E
564,2003,Fall,BLACKMAN E
564,2005,Fall,BLACKMAN E

583,1997,Spring,FRANK A

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