The Department of Physics
Program, courses and calendar 2022 - 2023 Faculty :Meydi Ferrier (LPS ORSAY) Gwendal Feve (LPA ENS) Tutor : François Mallet ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Description : | ↦ Read more
Active matter and collective behaviour
Advanced topics in Markov-chain Monte Carlo
Advanced Topics in Quantum Field Theory
Circuits and network dynamics in synthetic biology and neuroscience
Complex Systems: from physics to social sciences
Conformal Field Theory
Cosmology
Differential geometry and gauge theory
Ecology, evolution and epidemiology
Electrodynamics in Quantum Materials (proposé par Physique de la Matière Condensée)
Introduction to AdS/CFT
Localized spins in solids
Numerical methods for fluid dynamics
Machine Learning
Particles in the Dark Universe
Phenomenology of the Standard Model and Beyond,
Physics of multicellular systems
Physics of 2D materials (proposed by Condensed Matter)
Quantum Field Theory II
Quantum Information Theory
Quantum machines : quantum physics with electrical circuits and mechanical resonators
Quantum metrology
Quantum physics and condensed matter in advanced technology
Quantum Physics Out of Equilibrium (proposed by Condensed Matter)
Quantum Optomechanics
Random geometry and non-unitary quantum field theories.
Reservoir-controlled quantum materials (proposé par Physique de la Matière Condensée)
Transfers in complex fluids
Soft or Slender: mechanics of Nature-inspired, highly deformable bodies
Statistical Physics2: Disordered Systems and Interdisciplinary Applications
String Theory
Superconducting circuits
Topological theory in condensed matter (proposed by Condensed Matter)
Turbulence
Ultimate quantum conductors : Novel electronic states and transport
phenomena
Ultra cold Atoms
Waves in disordered media and localization phenomena
Faculty :Meydi Ferrier (LPS ORSAY) Gwendal Feve (LPA ENS) Tutor : François Mallet ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Description : | ↦ Read more
Responsible : Christophe MORA (MPQ, Université de Paris) Teachers : Leonardo MAZZA (LPTMS, Université Paris-Saclay), Christophe MORA (MPQ, Université de Paris) number ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : English Evaluation : oral exam (...) | ↦ Read more
Responsible : Luca de’ Medici (PR ESPCI Paris-PSL) Teachers : Ricardo Lobo (DR CNRS, ESPCI Paris-PSL), Luca de’ Medici (PR ESPCI Paris-PSL), Yann Gallais (PR Univ. Paris) number ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : English Evaluation : Oral (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Julien Tailleur (CNRS, P7), Carine Douarche (MdC P11) ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Examination : Marks will be attributed following a written exam. Description : The lectures offer a statistical-physics (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Laurence Talini (CNRS, ESPCI Saint Gobain) + Matthieu Roche (CNRS, U Paris) ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : a 3 hour exam with questions on a given article at the start of the exam Website: (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Claude Loverdo (CNRS SU) + Thierry Mora (CNRS ENS) Tutor : ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : The exam will be a paper assignment, which will be given mid-course, where students working in (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Pascal Hersen (CNRS Curie) + Georges Debregas (CNRS SU), Volker Bormuth (MdC SU) Tutor : ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : Exam through article presentation. Description : This course will (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Etienne Reyssat (CNRS ESPCI) + Tristan Baumberger (SU prof) Tutor : ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination: the grades will be based on two components: 1/3 will be based on the oral presentation of a (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Hervé Turlier (CNRS CdF) + Vincent Hakim (CNRS ENS) Tutor : ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : study and presentation of a scientific article. Part of the mark will also be based on homework (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Alexandros Alexakis (LPENS) - Bérengère Dubrulle, SPEC, Université Paris-Saclay ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Exam: The final exam will be based upon an homework. Turbulent flows are present all around us and (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Raphaël Lopes - Aurélien Perrin - Martin Robert de St Vincent ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Web site Description Since the 80’s laser cooling has become a major tool in atomic physics. The very low (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Nicolas TREPS and Jakob REICHEL Tutor : Matthia Walschaers, Jérôme Lodewyck ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Site web : Description Atoms and photons are the quantum probes that enable some of mankind’s most precise (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Christophe Texier (LPTMS, Univ. Paris Sud) Chargé de TDNicolas Cherroret (LKB, UPMC) ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Site web : http://lptms.u-psud.fr/christophe_texier/enseignements/enseignements-en-master/onde-en-milie | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Miguel Paulos Tutor : Nat Levine ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Site web : Description The goal of this course is to introduce string theory. We motivate the study of string theory, and demonstrate the use of (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Jérôme Martin and Vincent Vennin Tutor : ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Site web : Description The purpose of these lectures is to provide the basis on modern theoretical cosmology. First, we’ll discuss (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Amir-Kian Kashani-Poor ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Description This is the follow-up couse to the quantum field theory class of the first semester. Topics we will cover include non-abelian gauge symmetry, (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Mark Goodsell ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Mark Goodsell’s teaching page Description The aim of this course is to introduce the most important topics needed to understand how we can test the Standard Model, (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculties and Tutor : Francesco Zamponi and Gregory Schehr ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : Anglais Web site: http://www.phys.ens.fr/ zamponi/teaching/M2disorder/disorder.html Description In the last decades statistical physics has proven (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Andrés Santander, Marcello Civelli Tutors: ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction: English Examination: 1 oral exam (30 minutes) based on the reading of 2-3 papers provided two weeks before the exam. Descriptif du (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD and Valentina Ros ECTS credits : 3 Description : 1) Hasard Benin et Hasard Sauvage : de Gauss à Pareto 2) Phénomènes Multiplicatifs et Lois de Zipf 3) Phénomènes critiques et transitions de phase 4) Réseaux, (...) | ↦ Read more
Responsible : Abhay Shukla (PR, Sorbonne Université) Teachers : Abhay Shukla (PR, Sorbonne Université), Nicolas Bergeal (MCF, ESPCI), Johan Biscaras (MCF, Sorbonne Université) number ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : English Evaluation : (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Benoît Estienne, Yacine Ikhlef Tutors: Benoît Estienne, Yacine Ikhlef ECTS: 3 Language of instruction: Anglais Description : This course is an introduction to Conformal Field Theory (CFT), in the context of two-dimensional (and (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Francesco Nitti ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction: English Exam : Oral Key words : conformal field theory / gauge theories / non-perturbative duality / string theory" | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Yann Mambrini Tutors : ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : English Exam : QCM + questions ouvertes Description A Dark Matter Journey from Particle Physics to Modern Cosmology. For more than a century now, the mystery of missing mass (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Carlo Sirtori Tutors : Marta Mastrangelo ECTS : 3 Language of instruction : English Exam : Report on one of the seminars + Oral exam Description : The aim of these seminars is to give a perspective about the role of (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Werner Krauth ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Exam : Oral + Project presentation Description : Course + Tutorial + Practical exercices This course leads from the mathematical foundations of Markov chains (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Emmanuel Dormy ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : Validation will take the form of a mid-term problem and a final project in pairs. Description Numerical simulation is playing an expanding role in the (...) | ↦ Read more
Professors : Pierre-François Cohadon, Samuel Deleglise (LKB UPMC) et Patrice Bertet (SPEC/CEA Saclay) ECTS : 3 Language of instructiont : English Description : Although quantum physics is primarily applied to microscopic systems such as (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Claude Loverdo (CNRS SU) + Thierry Mora (CNRS ENS) ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : The exam will be a paper assignment, which will be given mid-course, where students working in small groups (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Laurence Talini (CNRS, ESPCI Saint Gobain) + Matthieu Roche (CNRS, U Paris) ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : a 3 hour exam with questions on a given article at the start of the exam Website: (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty : Jesper Jacobsen ECTS credits : 3 Language of instruction : English Examination : Description : This course is an introduction to random geometrical critical phenomena and their description using algebraic, probabilistic and (...) | ↦ Read more
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