APPH at Columbia University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate APPH coursework.

• APPH E4010INTRODUCTN TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE.opens 9 courses (4 directly)
• APPH E3300APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM.opens 6 courses (4 directly)
• APPH E4500HEALTH PHYSICS.opens 4 courses (2 directly)
• APPH E4600FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY.opens 4 courses (2 directly)
• APPH E6380HEALTH PHYSICS PRACTICUM.opens 4 courses (1 directly)
• APPH E4300APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS.opens 2 courses (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate APPH work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 29 APPH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 41 more APPH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in APPH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at APPH E6102

  1. APMA E3102APPLIED MATHEMATICS II: PDE'S.
  2. APPH E3300APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETISM.
  3. APPH E4300APPLIED ELECTRODYNAMICS.
  4. APPH E6101PLASMA PHYSICS I.
  5. APPH E6102PLASMA PHYSICS II.

• 5 courses deep, ending at APPH E6340

  1. APPH E4500HEALTH PHYSICS.
  2. APPH E4600FUNDAMENTALS OF DOSIMETRY.
  3. APPH E6330DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY PHYSICS.

• 4 courses deep, ending at APPH E6365

  1. APMA E2000MULTV. CALC. FOR ENGI ＆ APP SCI.
  2. APPH E4010INTRODUCTN TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE.
  3. APPH E6319CLIN NUCLEAR MEDICINE PHYSICS.

• 3 courses deep, ending at APPH E4100

  1. APMA E3101APPLIED MATH I: LINEAR ALGEBRA.
  2. APPH E3100INTRO TO QUANTUM MECHANICS.
  3. APPH E4100QUANTUM PHYSICS OF MATTER.

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on APPH sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Alexander Gaeta
• Aravind Devarakonda
• Ben Zhu
• Boyu Peng
• Carlos Paz Soldan
• Cheng Wuu
• Elizabeth Paul
• Julian Chen
• Klaus Hamacher
• Lorenzo Polvani
• Marco Zaider
• Peter Caracappa
• Sean Berry
• Stephen Ostrow

Columbia professor board

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under APPH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

APPH does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Columbia campus feed.