Looking for backup HET schools, help me prune this list:
Johns Hopkins
Rutgers
BU
UC Davis
UCLA
Michigan
Maryland
Stonybrook
CU Boulder
I'm more interested in particle/QFT side of things than cosmological stuff, but that's just because I don't have a lot of astro exposure. I just want to do HET
>>17786901
As a non-american without a degree (or even hischool diploma... career got in the way), UCLA and Michigan are the only ones of those that i've heard of... i guess that might mean they're somewhat famous and/or prestigious.
Also, neutron.
is bumping allowed? need some advice from people in the field, post at /sci/ wasn't allowed
>>17786901
Da fuck is a HET school?
>>17787164
HET stands for high energy theory, i.e. theoretical high energy physics programs
I know a girl doing her PhD in astro at Hopkins right now. She's crazy smart and did her undergrad at Princeton, and my impression is that she virtually had her pick of schools. I'd say that speaks well of it for physics in general, but I don't know if HET and astro are different enough that you'd want different schools for them.
>>17787901
there is some overlap, a big part of HET is cosmology (quantum gravity, big bang conditions, etc.) but not completely the same
It's a pretty respectable school