Course list

• Semester 1
  • Advanced Cosmology
  • Advanced Data Analysis Astronomy
  • Gravitational Wave Detection
  • Magnetofluids and Space Plasmas
• Semester 2
  • Astrobiology and the Search for Life
  • Plasma Astrophysics
  • The Sun's Atmosphere
  • SUPA Observing Course

Condensed Matter and Material Sciences

• Semester 1
  • Advanced Statistical Physics
  • Computational Chemistry
  • MBQT 1 (Quantum Field Theory)
  • Modern Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
  • Open Quantum Systems
  • Superconductivity (Quantum Condensed Matter)
  • Geometry and Physics of Soft Condensed Matter
• Semester 2
  • Electron Microscopy
  • Electronic Structure Theory
  • Introduction to Soft Condensed Matter
  • Quantum Magnetism and Quantum Phase Transitions
  • Chaikin and Lubensky's Principles of Condensed Matter
  • Matrix Product State and Tensor Network Approaches to Many Body Systems (tbc)
  • MBQT 2 (Response Functions)
  • Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

Energy Theme

• Semester 1
  • Solar Power

Nuclear and Plasma Physics

• Semester 1
  • Plasma Physics
• Semester 2
  • Laser Driven Plasma Acceleration
  • Nuclear Instrumentation
  • Nuclear Reaction Theory and Nuclear Forces
  • Quarks and Hadron Spectroscopy

Particle Physics

• Semester 1
  • Accelerators
  • Detectors
  • Group Theory
  • Relativistic Quantum Field Theory
  • String Theory
  • Modern Quantum Field Theory
• Semester 2
  • Gauge Theory in Particle Physics
  • Collider Physics
  • Discussion Classes
  • Flavour Physics
  • Lattice QCD

Photonics

• Semester 2
  • Semiquantum Theory of Atom Light Interactions
  • Ultrafast Photonics
  • Solid State Lasers

• Semester 1
  • Biomedical Applications of Lasers, Beams and Radiation
  • Biophotonics
  • Introducing Biology to Physicists
• Semester 2
  • Biological Physics
  • Introductory Biology School
  • Mathematical Modelling
  • Physics and Life Sciences Short Research Project

• Semester 1
  • C++/Object Oriented Programming
  • Introductory Data Analysis
  • Maths Primer
  • Vacuum Technology
• Semester 2
  • Advanced Data Analysis
  • Hands on Writing (semester 2)
  • Python
  • Research Ventures
  • ROOT
  • Software Carpentry