The Department of Physics
Program, courses and calendar 2022 - 2023 Lectures: Cédric Deffayet Exercises: Ian Hothi ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction: English Keywords: Exam: written Description | ↦ Read more
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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.
There is also the possibility to do a supervised research project, considered as a full course (6 ECTS).
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 five 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.
Lectures: Cédric Deffayet Exercises: Ian Hothi ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction: English Keywords: Exam: written Description | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Sylvie Cohen-Addad and Frédéric Restagno Exercises: Raphaël Jeanneret and Alessandro Siria ECTS: 6 Language of instruction: french and english Key words: scales, capillarity, wetting, fluctuations, entropic forces, brownian motion Exam: (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Lucile Savary Exercises: Baptiste Coquinot ECTS: 3 Langue d’enseignement: English Keywords: Exam: written Plan du cours rappels de certains concepts de mécanique quantique, physique statistique, chimique quantique et matière (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Massimo Vergassola Exercises: Thierry Mora ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Keywords: Statistical Physics, Information, Development, Biology Exam: oral Description The course provides an introduction to the (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Kris Van Houcke Exercises: Félix Werner ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Keywords: Classical field theory, hydrodynamics, two-fluid model, Kostelitz-Thouless theory Exam: written Description Superfluidity (like its (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Frédéric Chevy Exercises: Antoine Bourget ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Description The goals of the course are twofold: to introduce mathematical tools relevant in many fields of physics such as quantum mechanics, (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Stephan Fauve Exercises: Baptiste Coquinot and Antonio Costa ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Key words: Dynamical systems, instabilities, fluctuations, stochastic processes Exam: written Covid-19 alternative (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Stephan Fauve ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction: English or French Validation: written report and oral defense The supervised research project offers the possibility to pursue an experimental research project within a team of (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Raphael Cerf Exercises: Guilhem Semerjian ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Key words: Exam: written Description This course will present the probabilistic model and the fundamental limit theorems for sums of (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Guilhem Semerjian Exercises: ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Key words: Exam: written Covid-19 alternative examination: Oral examination Description Several physical systems exhibit phase transitions, i.e. (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Alain Aspect and Fabien Bretenaker Tutor: Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English This course will take place at Ecole Polytechnique on following Mondays: 21/9, 28/9, 12/10, 19/10, 2/11, 9/11, (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Pierre-François Cohadon Exercises: Pierre-François Cohadon and Joris Verstraten ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Keywords: Exam: written Description The course will introduce a number of concepts and techniques in (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Freddy Bouchet Exercises: Julie André ECTS credits: 3 Language of instruction : English Keywords: Climate physics, Climate dynamics, Radiative budget, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Climate change and climate change impact. Exam : written (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Adel Bilal Exercises: Guilhem Semerjian ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction: English Keywords: relativistic quantum mechanics, Dirac equation, free quantum fields, Feynman diagrams Exam: written (3 to 4 hours) Prerequisites: A good (...) | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Jakob Reichel ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction : French and English Keywords: experiments, project, initiative, personalised programme Exam: oral and written Pré-requis : des connaissances d’optique géométrique, d’optique (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Guillaume Legendre Exercises: Projects supervision: Guillaume Legendre, Kris Van Houcke ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction: English Keywords: numerical methods, differential equations, discretization, stability Exam: oral and (...) | ↦ Read more
Lectures: Marios Petropoulos Exercises: Vadim Briaud ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction: English Web site: | ↦ Read more
Faculty: Kris Van Houcke ECTS credits: 6 Language of instruction: English Description Personal work plays an essential role in the undergraduate studies at ENS. The reduced class time allows the students to think and go deeper in their (...) | ↦ Read more
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