The Master's Degree in Physics at the University of Valladolid is especially aimed at Physics graduates and graduates of the Double Degree in Physics and Mathematics. Graduates from other related areas, such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering or Biotechnology, are also welcome.
It is mainly oriented towards research and doctoral studies (this Master's degree gives direct access to doctoral studies), although it also offers the possibility of contacting some of the companies with which the research groups that support this degree collaborate.
The Master in Physics is structured in three fields of study that develop some of the most active branches of current Physics and are taught by professors and researchers renowned worldwide:
- Atmospheric Physics and Climate. This speciality is structured in three blocks:
- Atmospheric Physics: thermodynamics and atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric components and radiative transfer.
- Instrumentation and space technologies for obtaining atmospheric parameters.
- Climate modeling, climate change and data processing.
All subjects have at least 50% of practical content.
- Materials Physics. A wide spectrum of materials of current interest is studied within this speciality:
- Materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices.
- Magnetic materials and metamaterials.
- Functional materials: polymers, biomaterials, cellular materials and selective porous materials.
- It is an interdisciplinary module that combines Quantum Physics, Electromagnetism, Solid State Physics, Crystallography, Electronics, Chemistry and Biophysics and includes aspects of fabrication, experimental characterization and computational simulation.
Practical subjects (80%) have 35-90% of practical content and employ the research equipment used by the research groups involved in this Master program.
- Mathematical Physics. Covers some of the most interesting and advanced aspects of current Mathematical Physics:
- Astrophysics and Cosmology.
- Field Theory, Classical and especially Quantum.
- Quantum Technologies, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation.
- Mathematical Physics: group theory, modern differential geometry and functional analysis, classical and quantum integrable systems.
As a whole, it is an speciality close to Theoretical Physics and the fundamental techniques of Mathematical Physics are developed. In addition to being aimed at Physics graduates, it may be also especially attractive for students who have taken one of the double degrees in Physics and Mathematics that are already being taught in many Spanish universities with great success.