Ultracold Quantum Fields

On June 19th, 1999, the European Ministers of Education signed the Bologna Declaration, with which they agreed that European university education should be uniformized throughout Europe and based on the two-cycle bachelor master's system.

The Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University quickly responded to this new challenge and created an international master's program in theoretical Physics which started running in the summer of 2000.

At present, the master's program is a so-called prestige master at Utrecht University, and it aims at training motivated students to become sophisticated researchers in theoretical physics.

The program is built on the philosophy that modern theoretical physics is guided by universal principles that can be applied to any subfield of physics. As a result, the basis of the master's program consists of the obligatory courses Statistical Field Theory and Quantum Field Theory.

These focus in particular on the general concepts of quantum field theory, rather than on the wide variety of possible applications. These applications are left to optional courses that build upon the arm conceptual basis given in the obligatory courses. 

The subjects of these optional courses include, for instance, Strongly Correlated Electrons, Spintronics, Bose-Einstein Condensation, The Standard Model, Cosmology, and String Theory.

Author: Henk T. C. Stoof, Dennis B. M. Dickerscheid, Koos Gubbels
Publisher: Springer
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 485
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781402087622