Physics 2026-27

Core courses

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced biomedical imaging methods and instrumentation (Next time: Fall )
PHYS-719 / Section EDPY
Hyacinthe, Invited lecturers, Just
EN
Term paper
4
Advanced concepts in particle accelerators (Next time: Spring)
PHYS-751 / Section EDPY
Herr, Iadarola, Maclean, Pieloni
EN
Oral presentation
4
Atomic and radiative processes in plasmas (Next time: Spring 2028)
PHYS-762 / Section EDPY
Mykytchuk, Porte, Sheikh, Stollberg
EN
Oral
4
Attosecond radiation sources (Next time: Fall)
PHYS-761 / Section EDPY
Carbone, Invited professor(s), Puppin
EN
Oral
4
Axiomatic Quantum Field Theory (Next time: Fall 2027)
PHYS-757 / Section EDPY
Bossoney
EN
Oral
1
CIBM translational MR neuroimaging & spectroscopy (Next time: Spring 2027)
PHYS-770 / Section EDPY
Cudalbu Moldovan, Invited lecturers, Lanz, Wenz, Xin
EN
Project report
4
Control and Operation of Tokamaks (Next time: Spring 2027)
PHYS-748 / Section EDPY
Felici, Galperti, Mele, Merle, Pau, Reimerdes
EN
Oral
3
Electron Matter Interactions in Transmission Electron Microscopy (Next time: Spring 2028)
PHYS-637 / Section EDPY
Alexander, Hébert, La Grange
EN
Oral presentation
2
Field Theory in Condensed Matter Physics (Next Time: Fall 2026)
PHYS-639 / Section EDPY
Mudry
EN
Term paper
4
Fusion and industrial plasma technologies (Next time: Spring 2027)
PHYS-632 / Section EDPY
Baquero Ruiz, Decker, Hogge, Martin, Nes, Pouchon, Reimerdes, Sedlák, Siravo
EN
Oral
4
General aspects of the electronic structure of crystals (Next time: Fall 2027)
PHYS-636 / Section EDPY
Yevtushynsky
EN
Oral
2
Introduction to Frustrated Magnetism (Next time: Spring 2027)
PHYS-726 / Section EDPY
Mila
EN
Oral
2
Introduction to Metalorganic Vapour Phase Epitaxy of III-V semiconductors (Next time: Spring)
PHYS-747 / Section EDPY
Caroff, Chen, Grandjean, Moselund
EN
Oral
1
Magnetic confinement (Next time: Fall 2026)
PHYS-731 / Section EDPY
Fasoli, Graves, Loizu, Merle, Ricci
EN
Oral
4
Mechanical fabrication for physicists (Next time: Fall)
PHYS-651 / Section EDPY
Brantut, Cavin
EN
Project report
1
Neutron and X-ray Scattering of Quantum Materials (Next time: Fall )
PHYS-640 / Section EDPY
Lacmann, Rønnow, Schmitt
EN
Winter session
Oral
4
Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics simulations (Next time: Spring )
PHYS-729 / Section EDPY
Bonella
EN
Project report
1
Parallel programming (Next time: Fall (Block course))
PHYS-743 / Section EDPY
Lanti, Richart
EN
Oral presentation
3
Physical Optics and Advanced Imaging (Next time: Fall )
PHYS-715 / Section EDPY
Guizar Sicairos, Invited lecturers
EN
Oral presentation
3
Plasma Diagnostics in Basic Plasma Physics Devices and Tokamaks: from Principles to Practice (Next time: Spring 2028 (Block course))
PHYS-732 / Section EDPY
Furno, Labit, Reimerdes
EN
Written
2
Plasma instabilities (Next time: Fall 2027)
PHYS-736 / Section EDPY
Brunner, Graves
EN
Multiple
4
Statistical physics for optimization & learning (Next time: Spring 2028)
PHYS-642 / Section EDPY
Barbier, Krzakala, Stephan
EN
During the semester
4
Technical drawing for experimentalists (Next time: Fall. Course requirements (software, equipment) : please check the Note section)
PHYS-650 / Section EDPY
Brantut, Dutoit
EN
Project report
1

Other doctoral courses (EDOC)

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced lll-Nitride Semiconductor Devices (Next time: Spring 2027)
EE-627 / Section EDEE
Grandjean, Matioli
EN
Oral presentation
3
Lecture series on scientific machine learning (Next time: Fall 2026)
PHYS-754 / Section EDPY
Bitbol, Carleo, Ceriotti, Harvey, Schrimpf, Schwaller, Zdeborová
EN
Oral presentation
2
Many-Body Approaches to Quantum Fluids
PHYS-619 / Section EDPY
Holzmann
EN
Oral presentation
1

Master courses

Courses
Language
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Modern approaches to quantum gravity (MA3 only)
PHYS-504 / Section PH
Henriksson, Penedones, Vacat, Vecchi
EN
Winter session
Oral
8
Quantum computing
PHYS-541 / Section PH
Savona
EN
Winter session
Oral
6
Quantum field theory III (MA3 only. The lecture takes places in Geneva.)
PHYS-503 / Section PH
Vacat
EN
Winter session
Oral
8
Quantum optics and quantum information
PHYS-454 / Section PH
Brantut
EN
Summer session
Written
6
Spintronics : basics and applications
PHYS-510 / Section PH
Pivetta, Rusponi
EN
Summer session
Oral
4
Statistical physics of biomacromolecules
PHYS-441 / Section PH
De Los Rios
EN
Winter session
Oral
4
The standard model (MA3 only)
PHYS-505 / Section PH
Riembau Saperas
EN
Winter session
Oral
8