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 2021-2022)

		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
Physics of Living Matter [MCMP-39]	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
Partial Differential Equations I [MAMATH-3] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	30	8
Discrete-time stochastic processes [MAMATH-4] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	15	6
111 Lernen und schulisches Lernen [BSCE-425] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		4
ISB701: Introduction to Systems Biology [MAISB-14] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30	40	4
Academic English B2 [LC_CAT-198] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Physics didactics 1 [BASI-251] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Computational Fluid Dynamics [MEEE-3] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	30		3
Communicating science [MCMP-36] (optionnel)	Module 1.8 (2 ECTS minimum)	24		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
Astrophysics and Cosmology (remplace 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 2.8	30	30	8
Principles of Software Development [MICS2-50] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30	15	5
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining [MICS2-13] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30	15	5
Didactics for Physics 2 [BASI-255] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30		3
Advanced engineering materials [MSP-18] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	45		4
Communicating science [MCMP-48] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	0		3

Semestre 3 (Winter 2021-2022)

		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