Introduction
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Scope of alumni’s professional activity
Graduates of Master program in 03.04.02 Physics are engaged in research of different levels of nature’s structure and properties, from elementary particles to the Universe, fields, and phenomena which are basic to Physics. They may develop new methods of studying the main laws of nature, all kinds of physical phenomena, processes, and structures existing in nature while working at public and private research establishments and industrial enterprises dealing with issues of Physics, at universities, colleges, vocational schools, and comprehensive schools.
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Types of professional activity:
Research
Innovational
Managerial
Pedagogical
“Condensed Matter Physics” Master program
Condensed Matter Physics is a large branch of Physics studying the behavior of complex systems consisting of a big number of particles. Condensed media physics is abundant in mathematical models and practical applications. We can come across condensed media everywhere. Examples include ordinary fluids, crystals and amorphous bodies, materials with the complex inner structure, quantum liquids (electron liquid in metals, neutron liquid in neutron stars, superfluids, atomic nuclei), magnetic torques, complex networks, etc. Their properties may often be so many-sided and complicated that scholars need a preliminary study of their simplified mathematical models. As a result, the search and study of condensed media mathematical models having accurate solutions are now among the major issues of Physics.
The main fields of study include Solid State Physics, Physics of Fluids, Superconductivity, Continuum Mechanics, High Correlated Systems (high-temperature superconductivity), Physics of Disordered Systems.
The objects of alumni’s professional activities include physical systems of various scopes and organization levels, their functioning, as well as physical, engineering, physico-medical and nature protection technologies, physical expert examination, and monitoring survey.
“Condensed Matter Physics” Master program is aimed at training high-skilled specialists and building skills necessary for implementing professional activities in the field of condensed matter physics.
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Program objectives
Studying the main principles of condensed media formation and properties
Mastering fundamental concepts, laws, and theories of condensed media physics and research methods
Building skills necessary to study and forecast condensed media properties in doing research
Academic subjects
The core part of the curriculum
Philosophical problems of natural sciences
Special Physics workshop
Contemporary Physics issues
Professional foreign language
Formulation of a scientific experiment
The variable part of the curriculum (Compulsory subjects)
Physical fundamentals of semiconductor electronics
Experimental data processing
Applied physics research: organization, legal aspects, and economics
Quantum theory of solids
(Elective courses)
Interaction of radiation with condensed media
Processes of ionizing radiation passage through matter
Physical fundamentals of nanotechnology
Quantum mechanics of nano-systems. Quantum effects in nano-systems
Electro-optics of liquid crystals
Electro-optics of anisotropic liquids
Simulation of fast particles interaction with solids
Simulation of radiation passage through matter
The variable part of the curriculum (Optional courses)
The probability theory as applied to physical processes
MathCAD for the solution of physical problems
Each student will have a research advisor to assist them throughout their academic training, internship, and thesis.
The majority of theoretical courses are taught in the 1st and 2nd terms, though some courses will take place in the 3rd term.
Within the program, students do research and perform experiments at Belgorod State University laboratories using state-of-the-art equipment. In the 4th term, students usually do their theses.
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Academic exchange program partners
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics at Moscow State University
Тomsk Polytechnic University
National Polytechnic School in Ecuador
Lebedev Institute of Physics at the Russian Academy of Sciences
“Kurchatov Institute” High Energy Physics Institute national research center (the town of Protvino)
Gran Sasso National Laboratory (LNGS) at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics in Italy (INFN)
Oulu Biocenter, Tissue Imaging Center at the University of Oulu (Oulu, Finland)
The Center of Microscopy and Nanotechnology (CMNT) (Oulu, Finland)
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-BPC) (Göttingen, Germany)
Continuing education prospects
Post-graduate programs are offered, including those in 03.06.01 Physics and Astronomy (“Condensed Matter Physics” profile) and other ones.
Admission
Master programs at Belgorod State National Research University are available for Russian and international students.
Language requirements: А2 level of English and higher.
Admissions start from the 20th of June.
