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MPAGS Training Modules

Modules are grouped by broad subject area for convenience. Students are free to choose any modules subject to their home department's rules on the taught components of the research degree. Please browse all subject areas when looking for modules and contact the module convenor if you are not sure whether the module would be suitable.

Module Registration

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If you have any queries, please email physicspg@warwick.ac.uk

Module Contacts

Academic staff contact details can be found for Warwick, Birmingham , Nottingham, Leicester, Bristol , and Sheffield

If you have any feedback on the delivery of MPAGS modules, please fill in the module feedback form

Any general queries can be directed to physicspg@warwick.ac.uk

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Modules 2024/25


Module Convenor

Subject Area

Scheduled Date

ASTRO

  Term1  
Richard Alexander(Leicester) Formation of Planetary Systems Not running
Tom Wilson (Warwick)

Astrophysical Techniques

Start date: 28/10/2024

Simon Dye, Omar Almaini (Nottingham)

Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Warwick)

Astronomy Background Reading Terms 1-3

Christopher Moore and

Patricia Schmidt (Birmingham

Black Hole and Gravitational Waves Not running

COMPUTATIONAL

 

  Term 1  
Michael Smith (Nottingham) An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python Start date: 01/10/2024

Mark Slater (Birmingham), Thomas Latham (Warwick)

Luke Kreczko (Bristol)

Software Development with C++ Start date: 04/10/2024
  Term 2  
Rudo Roemer (Warwick) Machine Learning Start date: 08/01/2025
Jamie Mair High performance computing with Julia Self study

CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY

 

  Term 1  
Gavin Bell (Warwick) Nano / Surface Physics (online only, Moodle) Self study
Dr Maksym Myronov (Warwick) Epitaxy Fundamentals Not running
Gavin Bell (Warwick) Vacuum Science (hands-on content + Moodle) Not running
Vincent Boyer and Giovanni Barontini (Birmingham) Optics Lab (hands-on content) TBA
Maksym Myronov (Warwick) Introduction to Microfabrication Not running
Richard Beanland (Warwick) Introduction to Microscopy TBA
Martin Long (Birmingham) Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR
Start date: from mid October exact date TBA
Martin Long (Birmingham) Exact Diagonalization Start date: 08/10/2024
Mark Dennis (Birmingham) Introduction to Continuous Groups  TBA
Mike Gunn (Birmingham) Bosonic Physics  TBA
Dr Dimitri Gangardt (Birmingham) Bose-Einstein Condensation in Ultra Cold Gases Start date: 13/11/2024

Animesh Datta (Warwick)

Quantum Computation Self study

Maksym Myronov (Warwick)

Physics of semiconductor materials and devices Start date: 15/10/2024
  Term 2  
Professor Igor Lerner (Birmingham)

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Condensed Matter

Start date: from mid January exact date TBA
Kay Brandner (Nottingham)

Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics

Not running
Stephen Powell (Nottingham) Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions Start date: 24/02/2025

PARTICLE

 

  Term 1  
Karolos Potamianos (Warwick) Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Start date: 02/10/2024
Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield) Introduction to Particle Physics Start date: 07/10/2024
Francesco Gonnella (Birmingham) Digital Electronics Start date: 02/10/2024
Dr O. Villalobos Baillie (Birmingham) Group Theory for Particle Physics Start date: 04/11/2024
Paul Newman (Birmingham)

Proton Structure and How we Know It

Start date: 04/11/2024
Dr Tasos Avgoustidis (Nottingham) Quantum Field Theory Start date: 06/11/2024
Konstantinos A. Petridis (Bristol) QED and the Standard Model Start date: 06/11/2024
Kostas Nikolopoulos (Birmingham) Data Analysis with Machine Learning TBA
  Term 2  
Jonas Rademacker (Bristol) TBA Statistics for Particle Physics Not running (will run in Jan 2026)
Dr Andrew Chisholm (Birmingham) Particle Techniques Start date: 06/01/2025
Kostas Nikolopoulos (Birmingham) Higgs Boson Physics TBA
Roman Lietava (Birmingham) and Karim Massri (CERN) Trigger for Particle Physics Start date: 10/01/2025
Dr Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) Astroparticle and Massive Neutrino Start date: 08/01/2025
Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield) Particle Dark Matter Start date: 05/03/2025
Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield) Background radiations in underground laboratories Start date: 09/04/2025