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2nd Year (M2): Specialization

1st Semester (S3)

Compulsory courses :

• Advanced Quantum Mechanics (4 ECTS)
• Advanced Statistical Mechanics (4 ECTS)
• Introduction to Dynamical Systems (4 ECTS)
• Introduction to Hamiltonian systems  (3 ECTS)
• Renormalization Group (3 ECTS)

Choice 1: Option “Simulation of Quantum Systems”

The block of compulsory courses can be complemented by the following block of 4 options that lead to a specialization in quantum many-body problems and their numerical simulation:

• Quasi-exact Numerical Methods for Quantum Systems (3 ECTS)
• Quantum Monte Carlo (3 ECTS)
• Quantum many-body problem (3 ECTS)
• Artificial intelligence – Machine Learning (3 ECTS)

Choice 2: Option “Physics of Complex Living Systems”

Alternatively, the block of compulsory courses can be complemented by the following block of 4 options that lead to a specialization in complex systems and the physics of living matter:

• Introduction to Chaotic and Complex Systems (3 ECTS)
• Physics of living matter (3 ECTS)
• Networks: Theory and Applications (3 ECTS)
• Artificial intelligence – Machine Learning (3 ECTS)

Choice 3: General Theory

Finally, students have the possibility to construct their own profile in theoretical physics. For this purpose, they choose 12 ECTS among the courses of choices 1 & 2, or for example (opening and compatibility subject to demand):

• French for Foreigners / Scientific Communication in English^(*) (3 ECTS)
• Symmetries in physics (3 ECTS)
• Integrable Systems (3 ECTS)
• Classical and Quantum Information (3 ECTS)
• Introduction to Quantum Information (3 ECTS)
• Transport Phenomena and nanomaterials (3 ECTS)
• Density Functional Theory (3 ECTS)
• Markov Chains (3 ECTS)
• Graph Theory (3 ECTS)
• Introduction to Databases (3 ECTS)
• Big Data (3 ECTS)
• Soft Matter (3 ECTS)
• Tutored Project (3 ECTS)

The subjects of the tutored projects are to be chosen by the student in agreement with the pedagogical committee. One tutored project (3ECTS) amounts to a full time work of two weeks, plus writing a report and preparing an oral presentation. The student may decide, with the approval of the Master committee, to gather two projects into a larger one.

2nd Semester (S4)

The student will choose a research subject among those proposed by our laboratory or any research institution approved by the Master Pedagogical Committee. This internship (30 ECTS) is concluded by a written report and a public Master thesis defense.

^(*) Proposed to improve English skills of French speaking students