Master's program

The first semester of the Master's program is leveling, because students with a Bachelor’s degree that enter the program come from different universities and with different specializations. Therefore, it becomes necessary to level their knowledge of mathematical methods in physics, photonics, computational electrodynamics and quantum mechanics. The language of study in this program is English. There is also an opportunity to improve English during the compulsory English classes throughout the entire period of study. As early as the first semester, Master’s students choose their scientific supervisors among the researchers of the Department of Physics and Engineering and begin scientific work.

In the second and third semesters, students attend certain classes together, and other classes are elective, i.e. related to the chosen educational track. All the Master’s students study introduction to materials science, computational physics, quantum chemistry methods, and physics of two-dimensional systems. Students that have selected the quantum materials track learn spintronics, quantum optics, many-body quantum theory, low-dimensional magnetism, and machine learning methods. These areas are necessary for the theoretical and numerical study of strongly correlated materials. Experimentalists, i.e. the students who have selected the hybrid materials track, study special chapters of organic and inorganic chemistry, cell biology, spectroscopy methods, and computer modeling. This allows preparing specialists to work with systems based on combinations of chemically different compounds such as organic-inorganic systems, alloys, etc. To study these systems, quantum chemistry methods are used, which make it possible to predict the materials’ properties with quantum mechanics methods.