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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.

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Modules 2026/27


Module Convenor

Subject Area

Scheduled Date

ASTRO

  Term1  
(Leicester) Formation of Planetary Systems Not running
Tom Wilson (海角社区)

Astrophysical Techniques

TBC

, (Nottingham)

Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (海角社区)

Astronomy Background Reading October 2026

Christopher Moore and

(Birmingham

Black Hole and Gravitational Waves Not running

COMPUTATIONAL

 

  Term 1  
(Nottingham) An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python Start date: 28/09/2026

Mark Slater (Birmingham), Thomas Latham (海角社区)

(Bristol), Ben Morgan (海角社区)

Software Development with C++ Start date: 16/10/2026
  Term 2  
(Nottingham) High performance computing with Julia Start date: 08/02/2027

CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY

 

  Term 1  
Gavin Bell (海角社区) Nano / Surface Physics TBC
Dr Maksym Myronov (海角社区) Epitaxy Fundamentals TBC
Gavin Bell (海角社区) Vacuum Science (hands-on content + Moodle) TBC
and (Birmingham) Optics Lab (hands-on content) TBC
Maksym Myronov (海角社区) Introduction to Microfabrication TBC
Richard Beanland (海角社区) Introduction to Microscopy Not running
(Birmingham) Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR
TBC
(Birmingham) Exact Diagonalization TBC
(Birmingham) Introduction to Continuous Groups  TBC
(Birmingham) Bosonic Physics  TBC
(Birmingham) Bose-Einstein Condensation in Ultra Cold Gases TBC

Animesh Datta (海角社区)

Quantum Computation Self study

Maksym Myronov (海角社区)

Physics of semiconductor materials and devices TBC
 

Advanced Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics (海角社区 students only)

TBC
  Term 2  
(Nottingham) and

Introduction to topological phases of matter

TBC
(Birmingham)

Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Condensed Matter

TBC
Nottingham)

Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics

TBC
(Nottingham) Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions Not running

PARTICLE

 

  Term 1  
Karolos Potamianos (海角社区) Relativistic Quantum Mechanics TBC
(Sheffield) Introduction to Particle Physics TBC
(Birmingham) Digital Electronics TBC
(Birmingham) Group Theory for Particle Physics TBC
(Nottingham) Quantum Field Theory

TBC

(Bristol) QED and the Standard Model TBC
  Term 2  
(Bristol) TBA Statistics for Particle Physics TBC
(Birmingham) Particle Techniques TBC
(Birmingham) Higgs Boson Physics TBC
(Birmingham) and Karim Massri (CERN) Trigger for Particle Physics TBC
(Sheffield) Astroparticle TBC
(Birmingham) Spin-charge separation and infinite particle transformations TBC
(Sheffield) Massive Neutrinos TBC
(Sheffield) Particle Dark Matter TBC
(Sheffield) Background radiations in underground laboratories TBC
and Adam Softley-Brown(Sheffield) Dark Matter: evidence and axions

TBC

 

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