Serin Physics Laboratory, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Nuclear Faculty:
Experimental Faculty:
Theoretical Faculty:
Application deadline:
January 1st to be considered financial aid.
Departmental web site: www.physics.rutgers.edu
Application site: http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu/
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Contact in Nuclear Physics:
Ronald Ransome
732-445-5500 x 3873 ransome@physics.rutgers.edu
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General Info:
Rutgers University, founded in 1771 as Queen’s College, is the eighth oldest university in the US. The New
Brunswick-Piscataway campus is the largest of the three
Rutgers campuses, with over 26,000 undergraduates and
8000 graduate and professional students. With 75 faculty members in the graduate program, the Department of
Physics and Astronomy is about the tenth largest in the nation. The department has approximately 100 full time graduate students.
Nuclear physics research:
The major experimental efforts in research are in the structure of the nucleon, with efforts concentrated at
Jefferson Lab and Fermilab, nuclear structure far from stability, concentrated at Oak Ridge, and magnetic moments of excited states, concentrated at Yale. Nuclear theory efforts concentrate on nuclear structure, heavy ion collisions, and nucleon-anti-nucleon annihilation.
Other broad research areas in department:
Astronomy and astrophysics
Biophysics
Condensed matter physics
Elementary particle physics

Theorists: Experimentalists:
Prof. Larry Zamick
Prof. Zamick is renowned for his sense of humor and his studies of nuclear structure; he is currently working on partial dynamical symmetries. He is a Fellow of the
American Physical Society, and has received a Humboldt Prize and multiple NATO Fellowships. lzamick@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Noemie Benczer Koller
Prof. Benczer Koller measures magnetic moments to study the structure of nuclei. Prof. Koller is currently serving as chair of the
American Physical Society Forum on International Physics. She received the 2006 APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Distinguished Service Award, the 2001 Rutgers Daniel
Gorenstein Memorial Award, for outstanding scholarship and service to the university, and is a Fellow of APS and AAAS. Prof.
Koller has previously served as chair of APS DNP, and on the
Nuclear Sciences Advisory Committee, advising NSF and DOE on national nuclear physics research priorities. nkoller@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Aram Mekjian
Prof. Mekjian studies relativistic heavy-ion collisions, densityfunctional theory of nuclear structure, biophysics, discrete mathematics, and is an accomplished artist. Prof.
Mekjian has received a Humboldt
Prize, a Fulbright Scholars
Fellowship, and the 2005 Rutgers
Society of Physics Students
Outstanding Teacher Award. He is an
APS Fellow. mekjian@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Jolie Cizewski
Professor Cizewski’s research is at the interface of nuclear and astrophysics, studying reactions with rare isotope beams, including those along the r process path of nucleosynthesis that may occur in supernova explosions. Her research is conducted at rare isotope accelerators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Michigan State University. She is a fellow of the APS and
AAAS and is a recognized leader in graduate education in nuclear science. cizewski@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Wim Kloet
Prof. Kloet studies properties of mesons (quark-anti-quark systems, sometimes with gluonic excitations) and matter-antimatter annihilation; he has made critical analyses of the existence of dibaryon resonances.
Prof. Kloet has received a NATO
Fellowship. kloet@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Ronald Ransome
Prof. Ransome is currently leading efforts to study the structure of nucleons and nuclei through neutrino scattering at Fermilab; this effort will revolutionize knowledge of neutrino interactions and provide data needed for interpreting neutrino oscillation experiments. Prof. Ransome is Associate Chair of the
Department. ransome@physics.rutgers.edu
Prof. Ronald Gilman
Prof. Gilman leads experiments at Jefferson Lab studying the structure of nucleons and few-body nuclei, and is also working at
Fermilab. Prof. Gilman is Chair of the Jefferson Lab Users
Group, Chair-Elect of the APS Group on Hadronic Physics, and an APS Fellow. rgilman@physics.rutgers.edu