Astrophysics
Course Description
This Masters programme lasts one year (full-time) and contains 180 credits. You will undertake 120 credits of advanced laboratories and lecture courses in Semesters 1 and 2. Your curriculum will be flexible and tailored to your prior experience and chosen research project. Semester 1 courses will focus on building core theoretical and experimental/computational skills relevant to the area of astrophysics, while courses taken in Semester 2 will build key research skills – in preparation for the extended 60 credits project which runs over the summer period.
Core courses include:
- Cosmology (alternate years, starting 2012–13)
- Stellar Structure and Evolution (alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Problem-solving workshop
- Research skills
- Advanced data analysis for physics and astronomy
- Extended project
Optional courses include:
- Advanced astrophysics laboratory
- General relativity and gravitation (alternate years, starting 2012–13)
- Plasma theory and diagnostics (alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Pulsars and supernovae (alternate years, starting 2012–13)
- Statistical astronomy(alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Galaxies (alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Circumstellar matter (alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Exploring planetary systems (alternate years, starting 2012–13)
- Instruments for optical and radio astronomy (alternate years, starting 2012–13)
- High energy astrophysics (alternate years, starting 2013–14)
- Gravitational wave detection
- Advanced electromagnetic theory
- Statistical mechanics
- Dynamics, electrodynamics and relativity
- Applied optics