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: Agust 2025
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 – 2025The 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 4,5 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, on 31 August. 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.