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Theoretical
Astronomy and Astrophysics. Solar and stellar atmospheres; stellar interiors; binary, rotating, and variable stars; solar oscillations; quasars; cosmology; fluid and plasma astrophysics; stellar dynamics; kinematics and structure of galaxies.
Condensed Matter Physics. Structural properties of alloys and glasses; electronic properties of surfaces and clusters; phase transitions; magnetism in layered materials, electron systems and in solid helium; properties of zero-, one-, and two-dimensional electron systems in magnetic fields; extreme statistics applied to breakdown and crack propagation; numerical and computer simulation techniques.
Elementary Particle Physics. Fundamental structure and interaction of elementary particles; the parton (quarks and gluons) structure of hadrons; tests of quantum chromodynamics; spontaneous symmetry-breaking in electroweak interactions; physics of the Higgs particle and the top quark; diffractive processes; quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics of bound systems; Monte Carlo methods.
Nuclear theory. Many-body techniques for nuclear reactions and nuclear structure. Heavy-ion reaction dynamics from low to ultra-relativistic energies, fragmentation, particle correlations, the nuclear equation of state, phase transitions, and quark-gluon plasma. Nuclear structure models include those for: level structure, collective states, nuclear spectroscopy, chaos in nuclear systems and tests of fundamental interactions and nuclear astrophysics.