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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 2026/27


Module Convenor

Subject Area

Scheduled Date

ASTRO

  Term1  
Richard Alexander(Leicester) Formation of Planetary Systems TBC
Tom Wilson (Warwick)

Astrophysical Techniques

TBC

Simon Dye, Omar Almaini (Nottingham)

Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Warwick)

Astronomy Background Reading October 2026

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: 28/09/2026

Mark Slater (Birmingham), Thomas Latham (Warwick)

Luke Kreczko (Bristol), Ben Morgan (Warwick)

Software Development with C++ Start date: 16/10/2026
  Term 2  
Jamie Mair High performance computing with Julia TBC

CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY

 

  Term 1  
Gavin Bell (Warwick) Nano / Surface Physics TBC
Dr Maksym Myronov (Warwick) Epitaxy Fundamentals TBC
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 TBC
Richard Beanland (Warwick) Introduction to Microscopy TBC
Martin Long (Birmingham) Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR
TBC
Martin Long (Birmingham) Exact Diagonalization 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 TBC

Animesh Datta (Warwick)

Quantum Computation Self study

Maksym Myronov (Warwick)

Physics of semiconductor materials and devices TBC
 

Advanced Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics (Warwick students only)

TBC
  Term 2  
Adam Gammon-Smith (Nottingham) and George McCardle

Introduction to topological phases of matter

TBC
Professor Igor Lerner(Birmingham)

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Condensed Matter

TBC
Kay Brandner (Nottingham)

Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics

TBC
Stephen Powell (Nottingham) Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions TBC

PARTICLE

 

  Term 1  
Karolos Potamianos (Warwick) Relativistic Quantum Mechanics TBC
Kristin Lohwasser (Sheffield) Introduction to Particle Physics TBC
Francesco Gonnella (Birmingham) Digital Electronics TBC
Dr O. Villalobos Baillie (Birmingham) Group Theory for Particle Physics TBC
Dr Tasos Avgoustidis (Nottingham) Quantum Field Theory

TBC

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

TBC

 

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