Help For A Field-Switcher in Dire Straits

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I'm an electrical engineering major from India. I wanted to get into physics, and was lucky enough to find a cosmology professor at college, and since then I have done all my projects and research in physics.

• Academic project: Special Relativity

 

• Self-taught GR as a continuation of the above

 

• Academic project: Cosmology up to structure formation

 

• Attended a lecture school on advanced cosmology

 

• Project: Plotting the matter power spectrum using the Hu-Eisenstein fit functions

 

• Academic project: Basics of QM (Sakurai Ch 1,2)

 

• Internship at CERN (CMS, attended lectures)

 

• Academic project: Basics of Differential Geometry (Schutz)

 

• Project: Neutrino mass constraints through the Lyman-alpha power spectrum (truncated / on hold)

 

• Undergrad thesis: Effect of massive neutrinos on power spectrum. Did N-body simulations on GADGET-2. Also worked on the HI power spectrum in case of neutrinos (work stuck).

 

 

I currently have decent recommendation letters from my professor at my institute, my thesis advisor (at a different place) who is internationally recognised, and the head of my lab at CERN.

 

GRE: 334 (V:164,Q:170). PGRE: Done reasonably well. Expect above 900. 

 

Issues: Unrelated major, consciously chose to ignore it, final GPA 7.28.

 

Looking for good mid-level graduate programs in cosmology where I have a chance of getting through. 

 

Any help or advice is appreciated. Cheers.