MPAGS Training Modules
Modules are grouped by broad subject area for convenience. Students are free to choose any modules subject to their home department's rules on the taught components of the research degree. Please browse all subject areas when looking for modules and contact the module convenor if you are not sure whether the module would be suitable.
Module Registration
Please fill in the module registration form to register for an MPAGS module.
If you have any queries, please email physicspg@warwick.ac.uk
Modules 2025/26
Module Convenor |
Subject Area |
Scheduled Date |
ASTRO |
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| Term1 | ||
| (Leicester) | Formation of Planetary Systems | Not running 2025/26 |
| Tom Wilson (Warwick) | Start date: 29/10/2025 | |
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, (Nottingham) Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Warwick) |
Astronomy Background Reading | Terms 1-3 |
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and (Birmingham |
Black Hole and Gravitational Waves | TBC |
COMPUTATIONAL
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| Term 1 | ||
| (Nottingham) | An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python | Start date: 29/09/2025 |
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(Birmingham), Thomas Latham (Warwick) (Bristol), Ben Morgan (Warwick) |
Software Development with C++ | Start date: 17/10/2025 |
| Term 2 | ||
| (Warwick) | Machine Learning | Start date: 12/01/2026 |
| High performance computing with Julia | Start date: 04/02/2026 | |
CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY
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| Term 1 | ||
| Gavin Bell (Warwick) | Nano / Surface Physics | Not running 2025/26 |
| Dr Maksym Myronov (Warwick) | Epitaxy Fundamentals | Not running 2025/26 |
| Gavin Bell (Warwick) | Vacuum Science (hands-on content + Moodle) | Not running 2025/26 |
| and (Birmingham) | Optics Lab (hands-on content) | TBC |
| Maksym Myronov (Warwick) | Introduction to Microfabrication | Not running 2025/26 |
| Richard Beanland (Warwick) | Introduction to Microscopy | TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR |
Start date: TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Exact Diagonalization | Start date: TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Introduction to Continuous Groups | TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Bosonic Physics | TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Ultra Cold Gases | Not running 2025/26 |
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Animesh Datta (Warwick) |
Quantum Computation | Self study |
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Maksym Myronov (Warwick) |
Physics of semiconductor materials and devices | Start date: 14/10/2025 |
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Advanced Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics (Warwick students only) |
Start date: 12/11/2025 | |
| Term 2 | ||
| (Nottingham) and | Start date: 02/02/2026 | |
| (Birmingham) | Start date: TBC | |
| Nottingham) | Not running 2025/26 | |
| (Nottingham) | Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions | Not running 2025/26 |
PARTICLE
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| Term 1 | ||
| Karolos Potamianos (Warwick) | Relativistic Quantum Mechanics | Start date: 08/10/2025 |
| (Sheffield) | Introduction to Particle Physics | Start date: 06/10/2025 |
| (Birmingham) | Digital Electronics | Start date: 21/10/2025 |
| (Birmingham) | Group Theory for Particle Physics | Start date: 10/11/2025 |
| (Nottingham) | Quantum Field Theory |
Start date: 12/11/2025 |
| (Bristol) | QED and the Standard Model | Start date: 12/11/2025 |
| Term 2 | ||
| (Bristol) TBA | Statistics for Particle Physics | Start date: 12/01/2026 |
| (Birmingham) | Particle Techniques | Start date: 12/01/2026 |
| (Birmingham) | Higgs Boson Physics | TBC |
| (Birmingham) and Karim Massri (CERN) | Trigger for Particle Physics | Start date: 14/01/2026 |
| (Sheffield) | Astroparticle | Start date: TBC |
| (Birmingham) | Spin-charge separation and infinite particle transformations | Start date: TBC |
| (Sheffield) | Massive Neutrinos | Start date: TBC |
| (Sheffield) | Particle Dark Matter | Start date: TBC |
| (Sheffield) | Background radiations in underground laboratories | Start date: TBC |
| and Adam Softley-Brown(Sheffield) | Dark Matter: evidence and axions |
Start date: 18/03/2026 |