An introduction to the Standard Model of particle physics, covering its fundamental particles and interactions.

Ce cours présente une introduction à la mécanique analytique. Loin de se cantonner à la mécanique, les principes variationnels sont présents dans tous les domaines de la physique (optique, hydrodynamique, mécanique quantique, etc...), ce que nous illustrerons lors des travaux dirigés.

Phase transitions take place in many different branches of physics: from soft and hard condensed matter to cosmology and high-energy physics. This course presents the fundamental ideas, concepts and methods that underpin the modern theory of phase transitions. 

In this course, you will learn tools and ideas developed by statistical physics to deal with "complex systems". These tools can be used in different contexts, including economics and social sciences where the modelling of collective phenomena, crises, panics, and discontinuities, is more necessary than ever.

This course is about how to describe complex systems using ideas of the renormalization group (‘coarse-graining’) and statistical field theory.

Computational physics plays a central role in all fields of physics, from classical statistical physics, soft matter problems, and hard-condensed matter. Our goal is to cover the very basic concepts underlying computer simulations in classical and quantum problems, and connect these ideas to relevant contemporary research problems in various fields of physics. In the TD’s you will also learn how to set, perform and analyse simple computer simulations by yourself. We will use Python, but no previous knowledge of this programming language is needed.

This course is an introduction to geometrical critical phenomena and their description by means of algebraic, probabilistic and quantum field theoretical techniques.