Entry requirements

60 credits in physics and/or mathematics. Admission requires a project plan accepted by the department of Physics and Astronomy. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• apply tools and analyse problems within a chosen field of mathematical physics.
• search, interpret and compile relevant scientific literature.
• delimit a scientific problem, plan a scientific study, choose appropriate methods, carry out the study, interpret and evaluate the results and, if applicable, generate falsifiable a hypotheses to explain the observations.
• present the results in correct language in scientific form.

Content

An independent project is carried out, where knowledge from earlier completed courses are applied. The project is guided by a supervisor in close connection to ongoing projects in research or development. The content is defined together with the program coordinator and program advisor to promote further studies within a particular specialisation within the subject.

Instruction

The teaching is devised individually dependent on the direction of the project. Supervision is provided individually or in group.

Assessment

Oral and written presentation of the project at a seminar is required. The difficulty of the project and the performance, in relation to the course extent, determines together with written and oral presentations the grade.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.