The first year offers a wealth of lectures covering a wide range of topics in modern physics, from fundamental interactions to biophysics, and also several aspects of quantum mechanics and condensed matter physics, to name just a few. Students follow those lectures, chosen according to their interests and for a total of 30 ECTS (the condensed matter course is compulsory), during the first semester. The second semester is devoted to a 6-month research internship in French or foreign laboratories, in any field of physics or its interfaces.
| Name | Phone number | |
|---|---|---|
| Jean François ALLEMAND | In charge of the internships ENS professor jean-francois.allemand@ens.fr |
ENS office L059g 01 44 32 33 61 |
| Frédéric CHEVY | Head of studies ENS professor frederic.chevy@ens.fr |
ENS office LS165 01 44 32 20 19 |
| Guilhem SEMERJIAN | ENS assistant professor Coordinator of the first year of Master ENS-ICFP guilhem.semerjian@ens.fr |
ENS office LE106 01 44 32 25 13 |
| Associated universities | Phone number | |
| Michela PETRINI | UPMC professor Université Pierre et Marie Curie petrini@lpthe.jussieu.fr |
Paris 5e 01 44 27 76 54 |
| Marc DURAND | Paris Diderot assistant professor Université Paris Diderot marc.durand@univ-paris-diderot.fr |
Paris, 13e 01 57 27 62 58 |
| Marc RABAUD | Paris Sud professor Université Paris Sud marc.rabaud@u-psud.fr |
Orsay 01 69 15 80 87 |
Please refer to the page How to apply for informations regarding the recruitment process.
Stéphanie LEFEBVRE
Administration Officer in charge of the relationships with lecturers
stephanie.lefebvre@ens.fr
01 44 32 25 98
Julie LOUSSIER
Administration Officer in charge of internships
julie.loussier@ens.fr
01 44 32 25 37
Médina MAHREZ
Administration Officer in charge of students
medina.mahrez@phys.ens.fr
01 44 32 35 60
Marie BERNABE
Secretary
marie.bernabe@ens.fr
01 44 32 35 61
The courses of the first year of Master ENS-ICFP are (almost) freely chosen by the students. During the first semester there are five teaching units of 6 ECTS each :
| Morning | Afternoon | |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Fundamental structure of matter | Experimental physics |
| Tuesday | Physics for biology | Students seminar Computational physics and Numerical analysis |
| Wednesday | Statistical physics | Condensed matter physics (COMPULSORY) |
| Thursday | Energy transformations Cosmology |
Introduction to General Relativity Mathematical aspects of symmetries in physics |
| Friday | Evolution and measurement of quantum states Quantum fluids |
Soft interfaces Non-linear partial differential equations |
(Click on the name of a course to get its description.)
See also the detailed timetable.
Students can also perform a Self-directed work: library-based project, considered as a full course (6 ECTS), doing personal research and presenting a short seminar in january.
The lectures on Thursday and Friday are half courses, spread on the two halves of the semester.
One teaching unit = one full course (6 ECTS) or two half courses (2x3 ECTS) at will. At most 9 ECTS can be obtained by following courses not organized by the Masters program.
It is indeed possible to follow other lectures, in particular in some M2 of associated universities (Interface physique-biologie, Océanologie et météorologie, Géodynamique et physique de la terre, Mécanique), conditioned on the agreement of the faculties in charge of the Masters program and of the lecture followed.
Students must have chosen their four teaching units by the end of September, inquiries will be made via email by the people in charge. Individual meetings will be organized if necessary.
Each of the five teaching units M1–M5 are attributed a mark on a scale of 20, the mark of the first semester being their average : MA = (M1 + M2 + M3 + M4 + M5) / 5. If this average is strictly less than 10, the student must take again in September the exams of each of the courses for which he obtained a mark lower than 10. In such a case the committee is entitled to forbid the student to go abroad to do his internship.
Weekly attendance of the Students seminar is compulsory for the validation of the first semester ; students will have to write brief reports on some of the seminars.
SECOND SEMESTER (30 ECTS)
The second semester is fully devoted to an internship done full-time in a research laboratory, most often abroad (in Europe but not only) or in France, in an academic or industrial environment. The internship start after the winter holidays (mid-February) and last until the summer (end of July).
The work undertaken is evaluated from a written report describing the results obtained and an oral presentation (mid-September), leading to the mark (on the scale of 20) for the second semester : MB = INTERNSHIP.
PASSING THE FIRST YEAR OF THE MASTERS PROGRAM (M1)
The first year is passed if the marks of both semesters (MA and MB) are larger or equal than 10, the yearly mark being their average :
(MA + MB) / 2 = (M1 + M2 + M3 + M4 + M5 + 5 * INTERNSHIP) / 10
The student who has successfully passed the M1 year of ICFP will be admitted in one of the pedagogical path of the M2 ICFP. Which path depends on the student’s proposal and of the estimate of the student’s abilities by the directors of the pedagogical paths. In case of disagreement between the student and the directors of pedagogical paths, the director of the ICFP Master program will propose one of the pedagogical paths to the student. If the student refuses the ICFP director’s proposal he/she will be considered as quitting the ICFP Master program.
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