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 2020-2021)

		CM (hours)	TD (hours)	ECTS
TOTAL (mandatory / optional)		0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Solid State Physics [MCMP-27]	Module 1.1	60	30	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
Introduction to General Relativity [MCMP-42]	Module 1.6	30	15	4
Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques [MCMP-4]	Module 1.7	30		2
ISB701: Introduction to Systems Biology [MAISB-14]	Module 1.8	20	30	4
111 Lernen und schulisches Lernen [BSCE-425] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	30		4
Partial Differential Equations I [MAMATH-3] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	45		5
Probability (Martingale Theory) [MAMATH-4] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	45		5
Physics didactics 1 [BASI-251] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	30		3
Computational Fluid Dynamics [MEEE-3] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	30		3
Communicating science [MCMP-36] (optionnel)	Module 1.8	24		3

Semestre 2 (Summer 2020-2021)

		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 [MCMP-43]	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
Polymer Physics [MCMP-3]	Module 2.5	30	15	4
Lab class [MCMP-13]	Module 2.6		120	6
Literature Seminar [MCMP-7]	Module 2.7	30		2
Probability (stochastic analysis) [MAMATH-23] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	45		5
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining [MICS2-13] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30	15	5
Partial Differential Equations II [MAMATH-22] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	45		5
Didactics for Physics 2 [BASI-255] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30		3
Advanced engineering materials [MSP-18] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	45		4
Academic English B2.2 [LC_CAT-141] (optionnel)	Module 2.8	30		2

Semestre 3 (Winter 2020-2021)

		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