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Pure Mathematics:
Theoretical Physics:
Mathematics
|MSc
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenPURPOSE
For Mathematics graduates. Provides basic training for a research degree. DESCRIPTION
Our programme consists of a wide range of courses and a project. The coursework is organised on a module system. A supervisor assists each student in choosing modules, taking a majority from the two main blocks of Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. You may also choose certain courses from the Financial Mathematics programme. Pure Mathematics:
- Metric & Banach Spaces
- Fourier Analysis
- Operator Theory
- Lie Groups & Lie Algebras
- Modular Forms
- Algebraic Geometry.
Theoretical Physics:
- Quantum Mechanics II
- Quantum Field Theory
- String Theory & Branes
- Supersymmetry
- Advanced General Relativity.
You may also take up to two modules from a wide range of undergraduate topics, eg Real Analysis II; Complex Analysis; Galois Theory; Topology; Special Relativity & Electromagnetism; Linear Control Theory.
You may also take courses at other London colleges subject to approval.
KEY FACTS
Programme leader/s
Professor Yuri Safarov
Awarding institution
King's College London
Credit value (UK/ECTS equivalent)
UK 180/ECTS 90
Duration
One year FT, two years PT, September to September.
Location
Strand Campus.
Student destinations
Many of our graduates take up full-time employment in various industries that require good mathematical/computer knowledge or that look for intelligent and creative people. Recent employers of our graduates include Barclays Bank, Kinetic Partners, Lloyds Banking Group and Sapient.
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
Mathematics Research MPhil/PhD (Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics), option of joint PhD with HKU