Università degli Studi di Trieste
INFORMAZIONI DIDATTICHE:
via A. Valerio, 2 - 34127 Trieste
Tel. 040-558.3378
e-mail: presidenzaccdsfisica@ts.infn.it
INTERNATIONAL STUDY PROGRAM IN PHYSICS: ICTP-UNIVERSITY AGREEMENT
The University of Trieste with its Faculty of Sciences and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), upon recognizing the extensive possibilities offered by the collaboration between the two institutions, have agreed to cooperate in education in physics at the graduate level.
1) The cooperation concerns an international study program centered on a set of curricula in physics of the University of Trieste:
- Laurea Magistralis in Fisica with its training tracks in:
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Nuclear and Sub-Nuclear Physics
- Theoretical Physics
- Earth and Environmental Physics
- Laurea Magistralis in Astrofisica e Fisica Spaziale
These two degrees called "Laurea Magistralis" can be compared to an advanced master in physics or in astrophysics in the Anglo-Saxon system or to the last two years of the New European Educational System as fixed by the Bologna-Sorbonne agreement among the European Ministers of Education in the mid nineties.
2) This international study programme is open to anyone having the equivalent of a Bachelor degree in Physics or who has completed the first three years of the New European Educational System equivalent to 180 ECTS points (European-Credits-Transfer-System points). Before registration the academic degree will be checked by a joint committee of the University of Trieste and ICTP.
The courses will be taught in English and will be offered by scientists belonging either to the University of Trieste or ICTP. A course on Italian language will be organized for the foreign students during the first academic year.
A limited number of fellowships will be awarded to the best students from developing countries.
3) The "Laurea Magistralis" is two years long and, besides a set of courses with their relative exams (as detailed below), it requires the preparation of a research thesis for a total of 120 ECTS points. For the thesis the students can profit from the interaction and supervision of the many scientists working in the Trieste Area at various research facilities like ICTP (http://www.ictp.it/), the University of Trieste (http://www.units.it/), the Elettra Synchrotron Machine (http://www.elettra.trieste.it), the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Trieste (http://www.ts.astro.it/), the laboratories of INFN (http://www.ts.infn.it/), INFM (http://www-dft.ts.infn.it/INFM/), OGS (http://www.ogs.trieste.it/) and SISSA (http://www.sissa.it/main/).
4) Upon successful completion of the entire study plan students will be awarded the "Laurea Magistralis in Fisica" or the "Laurea Magistralis in Astrofisica e Fisica Spaziale" by the University of Trieste. The degree of 'Laurea Magistralis' allows entrance to the Ph.D program in all European Countries, USA, Canada, Australia and many more countries. It provides also the basic training to start a research activity in any major laboratory.
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The training tracks of the "Laurea Magistralis in Fisica"
Each academic year is organized in three periods, from the end of September till the end of June of the following year. The training tracks of the "Laurea Magistralis in Fisica" consist of basic and advanced courses. As described in the tables below, each different training track is further characterized by 'optional courses' which are left to the choice of the student. These can be divided in four different types:
- those which can be chosen among some of the science courses offered by the Faculty of science but different from Physics and which will be indicated with the acronym 'OSC' for 'Optional Science Course'
- those offered by the physics program of the university of Trieste and which will be indicated as 'OPC' for 'Optional Physics Course'
- those which are totally free, i.e. even not in science and which will be indicated as 'OGC' for 'Optional General Course'
- those in Theoretical or Nuclear physics, indicated as 'OTNPC' for 'Optional Theoretical or Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics course'.
The 'Apprenticeship' course required in the study tracks below is a reading or laboratory course which the student can privately agree upon with his thesis advisor in order to better tackle the thesis topic.
Condensed Matter Physics
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I Period |
II Period |
III Period |
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FIRST YEAR |
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Electronic states in Atoms andMolecules |
Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy |
Basics of Surface Science |
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Electrons in Crystals |
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Materials |
OSC |
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Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory A |
Introduction to Computational Physics |
Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory B |
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OGC |
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SECOND YEAR |
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- Computational Techniques in electronic structure |
THESIS |
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- Experimental techniques in surface physics |
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Apprenticeship |
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Nuclear and Sub nuclear Physics
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I Period |
II Period |
III Period |
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FIRST YEAR |
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Nuclear Physics |
Basics of Elementary Particle Physics |
Elementary particles Dynamics |
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Advanced Quantum Mechanics |
Advanced Statistics for Data Analysis |
Data Control and Acquisition Laboratory |
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Principles of radiation detection and measurement |
OPC |
Particle Detectors or a FIS/04 Course (see below) |
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OGC |
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SECOND YEAR |
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Nuclear and sub-nuclear Physics Laboratory |
THESIS |
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OPC |
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Apprenticeship |
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EXAMPLES OF OPC SUGGESTED:
Applications of Group Theory in Physics (FIS/02), Space-time Geometry (FIS/02), Statistical Mechanics(FIS/02), Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physics(FIS/02), New Frontiers of Quantum Mechanics (FIS/02), Field Theory(FIS/02), Advanced Field Theory(FIS/02)
Principles of Radiation Detection and Measurement (FIS/04), Elementary Particles Dynamics (FIS/04), Nuclear Physics (FIS/04), Nuclear and Subnuclear Experimental Physics (FIS/04), Basics of Elementary Particle Physics (FIS/04), Environmental Physics Laboratory (FIS/04), Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics Laboratory (FIS/04), Particle Detectors (FIS/04), Advanced Statistics for Data Analysis(FIS/04)
Geophysical Fluidodynamics (FIS/06
Medical Physics Laboratory (FIS/07), Imaging in Medical Physics (FIS/07)
Theoretical Physics
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I Period |
II Period |
III Period |
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FIRST YEAR |
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Space-Time Geometry |
Basics of Elementary Particle Physics |
OSC |
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Advanced Quantum Mechanics |
Field Theory |
OTNPC |
| Laboratory Course |
Introduction to Computational Physics |
OGC |
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OPC |
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SECOND YEAR |
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OTNPC |
THESIS
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OTNPC
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Apprenticeship |
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EXAMPLES OF SUGGESTED OTNPC :
Dynamics of Elementary Particles, Nuclear Physics, Advanced Field Theory, Applications of Group Theory in Physics, Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physics, Phenomenology of Fundamental Interactions, Laboratory of Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics, Experimental Nuclear and Sub nuclear Physics, Particle Detectors, Statistical Mechanics, New Frontiers of Quantum Mechanics, Introduction to Quantum Information, Introduction to String Theory, Introduction to supersymmetric field theories.
Earth and Environmental Physics
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I Period |
II Period |
III Period |
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FIRST YEAR |
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Earth Physics A |
Earth Physics B |
Seismology B |
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Advanced Mathematical Methods for Physics |
Oceanography A |
Geophysical Fluid-dynamics |
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Seismology A |
Oceanography B |
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OGC |
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SECOND YEAR |
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Seismic and Volcanic Risk |
THESIS |
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Laboratory * |
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Apprenticeship |
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*The laboratory course will have to be chosen among the following courses
"Laboratory of Data Acquisition and Control" and "Environmental Physics Laboratory"
EXAMPLES OF SUGGESTED OSC:
Topography, Hydraulic Infrastructures, Geodesy, Mechanics of Continuous Media, Seismometry.
The training track of the "Laurea Magistralis in Astrofisica and Fisica Spaziale"
Each academic year is organized in three periods, from the end of September till the end of June of the following year. The training track of the "Laurea Magistralis in Astrofisica and Fisica Spaziale" consists of basic and advanced courses. As described in the following table, each different training track is further characterized by 'optional courses' which are left to the choice of the student. These can be divided in three different types:
- those which can be chosen among some of the science courses offered by the Faculty of science but different from Physics and which will be indicated with the acronym 'OSC' for 'Optional Science Course';
- those offered by the physics program of the university of Trieste or the Diploma courses of ICTP and which will be indicated as 'OPC' for 'Optional Physics Course';
- those which are totally free, i.e. even not in science and which will be indicated as 'OGC' for 'Optional General Course'.
The 'Apprenticeship' course required in the study track below is a reading or laboratory course which the student can privately agree upon with his thesis advisor in order to better tackle the thesis topic.
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I Period |
II Period |
III Period |
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FIRST YEAR |
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Astronomy |
Astrophysics |
Space Missions and Instrumentation |
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Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis |
Astrophysical Techniques |
Origin and evolution of Cosmic Structures |
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Cosmology |
Chemical and Photometric evolution of Galaxies |
OPC |
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OPC |
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SECOND YEAR |
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Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies |
Numerical Methods in Astrophysics |
Thesis |
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OGC |
An Introduction to Astrobiology |
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OGC |
Apprenticeship, Thesis |
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OSC |
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EXAMPLES OF SUGGESTED OPC:
Observational Astronomy (FIS/05), Radiative Processes in Astrophysics (FIS/05), Nuclear Physics (FIS/04), Space-time Geometry (FIS/02).
Application forms and further information can be found here:
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/www_users/ItaLab/joint-programme.html
The Teaching of the various courses is done at the: DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA, VIA VALERIO 2, TRIESTE 34127, TEL +39.040.5583377/8, FAX +39.040.5583350
Web master: Nadia D'Antoni