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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

Please fill in the module registration form to register for an MPAGS module.

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 2025/26


Module Convenor

Subject Area

Scheduled Date

ASTRO

  Term1  
Richard Alexander(Leicester) Formation of Planetary Systems Not running 2025/26
Tom Wilson (Warwick)

Astrophysical Techniques

Start date: TBC

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 TBC

COMPUTATIONAL

 

  Term 1  
Michael Smith (Nottingham) An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python Start date: 29/09/2025

Mark Slater (Birmingham), Thomas Latham (Warwick)

Luke Kreczko (Bristol), Ben Morgan (Warwick)

Software Development with C++ Start date: 17/10/2025
  Term 2  
Rudo Roemer (Warwick) Machine Learning Start date: TBC
Jamie Mair High performance computing with Julia Self study

CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY

 

  Term 1  
Gavin Bell (Warwick) Nano / Surface Physics Not running 2025/26
Dr Maksym Myronov (Warwick) Epitaxy Fundamentals Not running 2025/26
Gavin Bell (Warwick) Vacuum Science (hands-on content + Moodle) TBC
Vincent Boyer and Giovanni Barontini (Birmingham) Optics Lab (hands-on content) TBC
Maksym Myronov (Warwick) Introduction to Microfabrication Not running 2025/26
Richard Beanland (Warwick) Introduction to Microscopy TBC
Martin Long (Birmingham) Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR
Start date: TBC
Martin Long (Birmingham) Exact Diagonalization Start date: TBC
Mark Dennis (Birmingham) Introduction to Continuous Groups  TBC
Mike Gunn (Birmingham) Bosonic Physics  TBC
Dr Dimitri Gangardt (Birmingham) Bose-Einstein Condensation in Ultra Cold Gases Not running 2025/26

Animesh Datta (Warwick)

Quantum Computation Self study

Maksym Myronov (Warwick)

Physics of semiconductor materials and devices Start date: 14/10/2025
  Term 2  
Professor Igor Lerner (Birmingham)

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Condensed Matter

Start date: TBC
Kay Brandner (Nottingham)

Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics

Not running 2025/26
Stephen Powell (Nottingham) Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions Not running 2025/26

PARTICLE

 

  Term 1  
Karolos Potamianos (Warwick) Relativistic Quantum Mechanics Start date: 08/10/2025
Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield) Introduction to Particle Physics Start date: 06/10/2025
Francesco Gonnella (Birmingham) Digital Electronics Start date: 07/10/2025
Dr O. Villalobos Baillie (Birmingham) Group Theory for Particle Physics Start date: 10/11/2025
Dr Tasos Avgoustidis (Nottingham) Quantum Field Theory

Start date: 12/11/2025

Konstantinos A. Petridis (Bristol) QED and the Standard Model Start date: 12/11/2025
  Term 2  
Jonas Rademacker (Bristol) TBA Statistics for Particle Physics TBC
Dr Andrew Chisholm (Birmingham) Particle Techniques Start date: TBC
Kostas Nikolopoulos (Birmingham) Higgs Boson Physics TBC
Roman Lietava (Birmingham) and Karim Massri (CERN) Trigger for Particle Physics Start date: TBC
Dr Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) Astroparticle Start date: TBC
Martin Long (Birmingham) Spin-charge separation and infinite particle transformations Start date: TBC
Dr Susan Cartwright (Sheffield) Massive Neutrinos Start date: TBC
Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield) Particle Dark Matter Start date: TBC
Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield) Background radiations in underground laboratories Start date: TBC

 

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