Course catalogue
Create your own master’s programme by choosing between the different specializations of our partner universities.
LASCALA Academic Programme
Semester 1
Compulsory courses (31,5 ECTS):
- Quantum solid State Physics (8 ECTS)
- Mathematics and statistical methods (to the big data processing) (3 ECTS)
- Experience in laboratories (large scale facilities at Paris-Saclay) (6 ECTS)
- Nuclei (3,5 ECTS)
- Atoms, Molecules, Optics (5 ECTS)
- European history of science and its role on building EU values (3 ECTS)
- Summer school (3 ECTS)
Additional course for students in La Sapienza semester 2
- Particles (3,5 ECTS)
Additional course for students in Lund semester 2
- Lasers (3,5 ECTS)
Semester 2
Compulsory courses (21 ECTS):
- Physics Laboratory II
- Particle physics (6 ECTS)
- Detectors and accelerators in particle physics (6 ECTS)
2 optional courses to be chosen (12 ECTS):
- Methods in experimental particle physics (6 ECTS)
- Accelerator Physics and relativistic electrodynamics (6 ECTS)
- Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion (6 ECTS)
- Optics (6 ECTS)
- Laser fundamental (6 ECTS)
- Advanced Machine Learning for Physics (6 ECTS)
- Computer Architecture for Physics (6 ECTS)
- Nuclear physics (6 ECTS)
Compulsory courses (15 ECTS):
- FFFN25 - Optoelectronics and optical communications (7,5 ECTS)
- FAFN10 - Advanced Optics and lasers (7,5 ECTS)
2 optional courses to be chosen (15 ECTS):
Summer School (3 ECTS included in the SEM 1)
Place : European Scientific Institute, Archamps (France)
Date: July 2024
The TOSCA Summer School aims to introduce students to the management of big science projects.
The school focuses on the main tools for developing, implementing, managing and monitoring a project through dedicated courses:
- Governance, organization & structure
- Costing & financing
- Procurement: specification, tendering and contracts
- Schedule, reporting and tracking
- Quality assurance & inspection
- Knowledge & technology transfer, IP
- Environmental impact & sustainability
- Information, communication & outreach
Highly experienced professionals will share their knowledge and experience in a series of talks and seminars on key aspects of project management and how they are implemented in real large-scale scientific projects.
Semester 3 (30 ECTS)
Compulsory courses (12 ECTS):
- Transverse high technologies (high vacuum, cryogeny, supraconductivity) (3 ECTS)
- Management of large scale installations (2 ECTS)
- Numerical methods (3 ECTS)
- Practical on large scale facilities at Paris-Saclay - 8 days (4 ECTS)
1 optional course + speciality + winter school (up to 18 ECTS):
- Tokamak physics (winter school CELIA Bordeaux / JUAS / Walkeyrie)
- High power laser physics (winter school in CELIA Bordeaux / Walkeyrie)
- Accelerator physics (winter school in JUAS / ESI)
- Selected topics in femto- and attosecond pulse phenomena (4 ECTS)
- Femtosecond physics with Python (3 ECTS)
- Fundamentals of femtosecond and nonlinear optics (3 ECTS)
- Scalar diffraction theory and its applications (5 ECTS)
- Theory and detection of gravitational waves by laser interferometric instruments (5 ECTS)
- Weekly practice work at the ELI facility (10 ECTS)
Semester 4 (30 ECTS)
Internship and master thesis
Master thesis charter of rules - 2022-2023The master thesis project is an essential component of the students' training, both from the point of view of training and skill assessment. The master thesis project takes place over 5 months minimum and 6 months maximum, during the fourth semester, and is worth 30 ECTS. The starting date will depend on the track chosen by the student, from mid-January to mid-March and will end, at the latest, early September. It can be carried out in a research lab of the associated partner institutions or companies who have submitted a thesis proposal/internship offer on the Lascala website or in another place.