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MSc - Master of Science
Singleton Park Campus
Full Time
JUL-25
1 year
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MSc - Master of Science
Singleton Park Campus
Full Time
JUL-25
1 year
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The MSc by Research in Experimental Physics allows you to undertake a year-long individual programme of personally and professionally enriching research. Your experimental physics research project will be shaped by participation in activities such as seminars, workshops, laboratory activity and fieldwork, as well as your involvement in one of our established research groups. While this research programme usually finishes after a year, it can be used to progress to the second year of a PhD degree in the appropriate circumstances.
We have three main research groups.
The Atomic, Molecular and Quantum Physics Group (AMQP) is supported by grants from EPSRC, the EU, The Royal Society, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and various industrial and government sources.
The areas of research are:
Analytical laser spectroscopy,
Ultrafast Dynamics, Imaging and Microscopy, Optomechanics
Antihydrogen, positronium and positrons
Cold atom physics
Nano-scale physics and the life sciences
The Applied Physics and Materials (APM) Group is supported by grants from the European Union, Welsh Government, National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, Welsh European Funding Office, and EPSRC.
The areas of research include:
Biophotonics: Nano- and micro-structured materials, biomimetics, analyte sensing and light-tissue interaction
Nanomedicine
sustainable Advanced Materials: next-generation semiconductors, bioelectronic materials and devices, optoelectronics including photodetection, solar energy conversion, advanced electro-optics and transport physics of disordered solids
The Particle Physics and Cosmology Theory (PPCT) Group is one of the five largest particle physics groups in the UK. It is supported mainly by STFC, but also has grants from EPSRC, the EU, the Royal Society and the Leverhulme Trust.
The areas of research include:
Amplitudes in gauge and supergravity theories
Hot and Dense matter, High-performance computing
Gauge/string duality, Higher spin holography, Integrability, Large-N gauge theories, supersymmetry and duality
Holography and lattice theories in physics beyond the Standard Model
Quantum fields in curved spacetime and theoretical cosmology
Applicants for MSc by Research must normally hold an undergraduate degree at 2.1 level (or Non-UK equivalent as defined by Swansea University).
Students living in
Domestic
£4,712 per year
Students from Domestic
Jul 2024: £4,712; Oct 2024 or Jul 2025: £4,800. Tuition fees for years of study after your first year are subject to an increase of 3%.
£22,700 per year
Students from EU
Jul 2024: £22,700; Oct 2024 or Jul 2025: £23,850. Tuition fees for years of study after your first year are subject to an increase of 3%.
£22,700 per year
Students from International
Jul 2024: £22,700; Oct 2024 or Jul 2025: £23,850. Tuition fees for years of study after your first year are subject to an increase of 3%.
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