Overview and specifics
3-200-1-0
Graduate
90 credits
Dissertation or thesis track
Specifics
- Full-time
- Part-time
- Offered at the Montréal campus
- Offered at the MIL campus
- Day course
- With international exchange option
Description
The Department of Physics will be moving to the new Science Complex in the fall of 2019. Discover your new surroundings in photos and video.
Research subjects are varied and include:
- Astronomy and astrophysics
- Biophysics
- Condensed matter and materials physics
- Particle physics
- Plasma physics
- Mathematical physics
- Medical physics
Language accommodations
Although Université de Montréal is a French-language university, many of our research departments are open to creating a bilingual environment for students in graduate-level programs. Students who are proficient in English are therefore welcome and accepted into graduate-level programs.
The Department of Physics provides a number of accommodations to make you feel comfortable and help you fulfill the requirements of the program even if French is not your main language of study:
- Choice of giving oral presentations in either French or English.
- Choice of writing exams in French or English.
- Possibility of taking an equivalent course at an English-language university in Montréal.
- Choice of taking the comprehensive exam in either French or English.
- Possibility of writing your doctoral thesis or dissertation in English.
Objectives
The goal of the program is to train students so that they can independently carry out a cutting-edge research project in their field. Students are taught how to master a new subject, keep their knowledge up to date, and develop their own research projects. Students who complete their doctorate should be able to conduct research as part of a team and eventually carry out their own research projects.
Strengths
- The Bibliothèque de physique (physics library) and computer labs reserved for physics students for their assignments: experiment write-ups, digital physics labs, symbolic computation tools, and more.
- Lectures given by renowned researchers who inform students about the latest advances in the field.
- Professors who are internationally renowned for their publications and their prestigious awards and grants.
Members of the Graduate Studies Committee
- Andrea Bianchi
- Jean-François Carrier
- Claude Leroy
- Richard Mackenzie
- Joëlle Margot
- Daniel Nadeau
Resource persons
Program information
- Secrétariat du Département de physique 514 343-6667
- Joëlle Margot 514-343-6635
- Sophie Tremblay (Gestion académique) 514 343-6667