Computational Atomic Physics

• PHYS4070 (Advanced Computational Physics)
  • Introduction to C++ for scientific computing
  • Introduction to computational atomic physics
  • ODEs, basis diagonalisation methods, numerical integration
  • From Hydrogen-like atoms, basic many-body perturbation theory, through to the self-consistant Hartree-Fock method
  • OpenMP, multi-threading and paralellisation

Quantum Field Theory

• PHYS4040 (Quantum Field Theory)
  • Canonical quantisation: harmonic oscillator to field theory
  • Scalar fields, Klein-Gordon equation
  • Propogators and Green’s functions
  • Symmetries and conservation laws: Noether’s theorem
• PHYS6004 (Advanced Quantum Field Theory)
  • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, Lamb shift

Particle Astrophysics

• PHYS4080 (Frontiers in Astrophysics)
  • Dark matter phenomonology, direct and indirect detection
  • Freezeout and the production of thermal relics, WIMP miracle
  • Weak decoupling, recombination
  • Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  • Beyond the standard ΛCDM model of cosmology

Classical Mechanics and Field Theory

• Foundations of Classical Mechanics and Classical Field Theory
  • Lagrangian and Hamiltonian classical mechanics
  • Relativity and foundations of classical field theory
  • Relativistic electrodynamics, Maxwell’s equations and radiation
  • The geodescic: constructing a Lorentz covariant field theory of gravity as a General Relativity motivation

Data Visualisation

• COSC3000 (Data Visualisation and Graphics)
  • Python data visualisations, and very basic data analysis

Computational Workshops

• git and GitHub workshop