Master of Science in Physics

The first year consists of lectures, seminars, and laboratory classes, whereas the complete second year is exclusively spend on your research project. You will carry out your research thesis in one of the four clusters of the Department of Physics and Materials Science:

Magnetic and Multiferroic Materials
Soft and Living Matter
Photovoltaics and Semiconductor Physics
Theory and Materials Modelling

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Semestre 1 (Winter 2022-2023)

		CM (hours)	TD (hours)	ECTS
TOTAL (mandatory / optional)		0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Solid State Physics [MCMP-27]	Module 1.1	70	20	6
Classical and Quantum Transport [MCMP-32]	Module 1.2	30	15	4
Computational Methods [MCMP-21]	Module 1.3	30	15	4
Colloids and Liquid Crystals [MCMP-41]	Module 1.4	30	15	4
Laser Physics [MCMP-40]	Module 1.5	30	15	4
Classical and Quantum Information Theory [MCMP-45]	Module 1.6	60		4
Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques [MCMP-4]	Module 1.7	30		2
Advanced experimental and Theoretical Laboratory Classes (Part 1) [MCMP-49]	Module 1.8	40		3
Discrete-time stochastic processes [MAMATH-171] (optionnel)	Module 1.9 (2 ECTS minimum)	45		6
ISB701: Introduction to Systems Biology [MAISB-14]	Module 1.9 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	40	4
Academic English B2 [LC_CAT-198] (optionnel)	Module 1.9 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Physics didactics 1 [BA_PHYS_GEN-36] (optionnel)	Module 1.9 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Computational Fluid Dynamics [MEEE-3]	Module 1.9 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3

Semestre 2 (Summer 2021-2022)

		CM (hours)	TD (hours)	ECTS
TOTAL (mandatory / optional)		0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Ferroelectrics and multiferroics [MCMP-5]	Module 2.1	30	15	4
Introduction to General Relativity [MCMP-46]	Module 2.2	45		4
Classical and Quantum Transport [MCMP-32]	Module 2.3	30	15	4
Semiconductors and Solar Cells [MCMP-33]	Module 2.4	30	15	4
Nonequilibrium soft and active matter [MCMP-47]	Module 2.5	45		4
Lab class [MCMP-13]	Module 2.6		120	6
Literature Seminar [MCMP-7]	Module 2.7	30		2
Partial Differential Equations II [MAMATH-156] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	30	8
Principles of Software Development [MICS2-50] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	15	5
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining [MICS2-13] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	15	5
Didactics for Physics 2 [BASI-255] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Advanced engineering materials [MSP-18] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	45		4
Communicating science [MCMP-48] (optionnel)	Module Options 2.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	0		3

Semestre 3 (Winter 2022-2023)

		CM (hours)	TD (hours)	ECTS
TOTAL (mandatory / optional)		0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Lab Class in Preparation for Master Thesis [MCMP-8]	Module 3.1	375		27
Seminar on the Master Thesis Topic [MCMP-9]	Module 3.1	30		3
Particle physics [BA_PHYS_GEN-34] (optionnel)	Module 3.2 (Options)	30	15	4