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Theoretical Physics:
Mathematics
|MSc
|Part Time, Full Time
| Admissions status: OpenSTRUCTURE OVERVIEW
Core programme content
- Individual project.
Indicative non-core content
Pure Mathematics: - Metric & Banch 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.
FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT
Eight modules assessed by written examinations; one individual project.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