Directions and general information
After your Bachelor's degree, it is time to choose a Master's programme. Physics in Lund offers one Master's programme, with a number of choices and selections. In practice you have great freedom in creating your own Master's programme. Your Master's thesis will define what physicist you have become.
Here you will find a description of
> The structure of the Masters programme and a list of courses
You will also find some advice under the link "How to pick the right courses" to the left.
> Presentation on practical information for arriving mastersstudents.
To aid your selecton of courses we have developed the following general directions:
- Mathematical Physics
"We offer you a broad education in the fundamentals of theoretical modelling, which is useful in many areas of science and technology. Once you have gained the necessary knowledge in mathematics and physics you are free to choose an area of application.
You will be creating models and using them in areas
such as chaos, nanoscience or solid state theory, theoretical
nuclear physics or even econophysics"
- Analytical physics
"How much mercury is there in a single hair? How old is that
ceramic pitcher found by archaeologists? How are the atoms
arranged in a nanostructure or a virus? The answers to all these questions, and many more, can be found using analytical physics."
- Synchrotron radiation physics
"Researchers in synchrotron radiation in Lund investigate a wide range of materials and processes. As our name implies, the majority of our experiments take place at synchrotron radiation sources: large national or international facilities that provide intense X-rays, called synchrotron radiation. Our work is concentrated at MAX-lab in Lund, which attracts top researchers from all over the world."
- Nanophysics
"Would you like to take an atomistic view in order to understand how things work? Or what about developing new biomedical sensors by applying nanotechnology or connecting electronics to living cells?
Nanoscience is one of the most intense areas of research
today, and is likely to have an impact on all branches of industry"
- Combustion physics
"Combustion processes are extremely complex. Apart from
hundreds of chemical reactions and complicated fluid dynamics, a number of physical processes take place, such as radiation and diffusion. Researchers at Combustion Physics in Lund are developing models that describe the complicated chemistry taking place during combustion. Our most extensive area is that of measurement technology."
- Subatomic physics
"Starting at the far end of the scale with galaxies and stars,
moving on to objects that we can touch, and then past crystals, molecules and atoms, we arrive in the subatomic world of nuclei and fundamental particles such as leptons and quarks. Although we think we know most things about the building blocks of matter, we still know little about the
fundamental forces holding them together"
- Photonics and lasers
"Photonics is about generating and controlling photons, including the emission, transmission, amplification, manipulation, detection and utilization of light. Lasers are often used in photonics applications, and are becoming standard tools in industry and research"
You can read our presentation of these here:
> Broschure on Master's Programme
And together with the Department of Theoretical Physics we offer
In Lund you can also follow other Master's programme, suitable for physicists, such as:
- Bioinformatics
- Chemistry/physics
- Biogeophysics
We are also working on a combined teacher and physicist education, together with teaching colleges in Malmö and Kristianstad.
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