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Master Class in Mathematical Physics

Sep 1, 2019 – Jun 30, 2020
University of Geneva, Switzerland
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SwissMAP is organizing a year-long master class at the University of Geneva in the academic year 2019/2020 for master and beginning PhD students.

Student interviews

Video lectures

 

Description 

The program is aimed at Master students and beginning PhD students. Participants will enroll in a one-year program at the University of Geneva starting in September 2019, providing 60 ECTS credits.


Participants will be offered the possibility of obtaining a Master Degree from the University of Geneva by completing a Master Thesis for 30 additional ECTS credits.

 

Tuition fee for regular (master) students at the University of Geneva is 500 Swiss Francs per semester. There is no tuition fee for exchange students.

 

A number of fellowships covering accommodation and local expenses are available.

 

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Registration is now closed.

If you have any questions concerning the program, please write to: swissmap-masterclass2019@unige.ch

Program 

Fall Semester: 

  • Introduction to Statistical Mechanics I - Yvan Velenik
  • Quantum Mechanics for mathematicians - Anton Alekseev
  • Randow growth and Loewer evolution - Stanislav Smirnov and Amanda Turner
  • Random Matrices and Universality I - Antti Knowles

Spring Semester: 

  • Introduction to Statistical Mechanics II: The example of the Ising model  - Hugo Duminil-Copin
  • An introduction to Topological Field Theory - Marcos Marino
  • Quantum information theory - Nicolas Brunner
  • Knots and Quantum Groups: Theory and Computations without Representations - Dror Bar Natan 
  • Random Matrices and Universality II - Johannes Alt

Mini-courses:

Spring Semester: Anna Beliakova, Vincent Tassion (Zurich)

 

Related documents: 

Adobe_PDF_icon.svg Schedule (PDF, 60.8KB)
Adobe_PDF_icon.svg Abstracts (PDF, 124.8KB)

 

 

Read more on this year's students.

 

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Phase I & II research project(s)

  • String Theory
  • Quantum Systems
  • Field Theory
  • Statistical Mechanics
  • Geometry, Topology and Physics

Program(s)

  • Education
  • Master Class
  • Leading house

  • Co-leading house


The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs) are a funding scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation

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