Modules

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

Module Calendar 2026/27

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Module Contacts

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If you have any feedback on the delivery of MPAGS modules, please fill in the module feedback form

Any general queries can be directed to physicspg@warwick.ac.uk

Modules 2026/27

Module Convenor	Subject Area	Scheduled Date
ASTRO
	Term1
(Leicester)	Formation of Planetary Systems	TBC
Tom Wilson (Warwick)	Astrophysical Techniques	TBC
, (Nottingham) Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Warwick)	Astronomy Background Reading	TBC
and (Birmingham	Black Hole and Gravitational Waves	TBC
COMPUTATIONAL
	Term 1
(Nottingham)	An Introduction to Scientific Computing with Python	TBC
(Birmingham), Thomas Latham (Warwick) (Bristol), Ben Morgan (Warwick)	Software Development with C++	TBC
	Term 2
(Warwick)	Machine Learning	TBC
	High performance computing with Julia	TBC
CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY
	Term 1
Gavin Bell (Warwick)	Nano / Surface Physics	TBC
Dr Maksym Myronov (Warwick)	Epitaxy Fundamentals	TBC
Gavin Bell (Warwick)	Vacuum Science (hands-on content + Moodle)	TBC
and (Birmingham)	Optics Lab (hands-on content)	TBC
Maksym Myronov (Warwick)	Introduction to Microfabrication	TBC
Richard Beanland (Warwick)	Introduction to Microscopy	TBC
(Birmingham)	Probes of Condensed Matter:Mossbauer and Mu-SR	TBC
(Birmingham)	Exact Diagonalization	TBC
(Birmingham)	Introduction to Continuous Groups	TBC
(Birmingham)	Bosonic Physics	TBC
(Birmingham)	Bose-Einstein Condensation in Ultra Cold Gases	TBC
Animesh Datta (Warwick)	Quantum Computation	Self study
Maksym Myronov (Warwick)	Physics of semiconductor materials and devices	TBC
	Advanced Experimental Techniques in Condensed Matter Physics (Warwick students only)	TBC
	Term 2
(Nottingham) and	Introduction to topological phases of matter	TBC
(Birmingham)	Introduction to Quantum Field Theory for Condensed Matter	TBC
Nottingham)	Open Quantum Systems and Quantum Thermodynamics	TBC
(Nottingham)	Classical and Quantum Phase Transitions	TBC
PARTICLE
	Term 1
Karolos Potamianos (Warwick)	Relativistic Quantum Mechanics	TBC
(Sheffield)	Introduction to Particle Physics	TBC
(Birmingham)	Digital Electronics	TBC
(Birmingham)	Group Theory for Particle Physics	TBC
(Nottingham)	Quantum Field Theory	TBC
(Bristol)	QED and the Standard Model	TBC
	Term 2
(Bristol) TBA	Statistics for Particle Physics	TBC
(Birmingham)	Particle Techniques	TBC
(Birmingham)	Higgs Boson Physics	TBC
(Birmingham) and Karim Massri (CERN)	Trigger for Particle Physics	TBC
(Sheffield)	Astroparticle	TBC
(Birmingham)	Spin-charge separation and infinite particle transformations	TBC
(Sheffield)	Massive Neutrinos	TBC
(Sheffield)	Particle Dark Matter	TBC
(Sheffield)	Background radiations in underground laboratories	TBC
and Adam Softley-Brown(Sheffield)	Dark Matter: evidence and axions	TBC

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MPAGS Training Modules

Module Registration

Module Calendar 2026/27

Module Contacts

Modules 2026/27

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ASTRO

COMPUTATIONAL

CONDENSED MATTER and THEORY

PARTICLE