M1 ICFP

• Information session 2025: September, 01st, 2025 - 2:00pm - Room Borel – Bâtiment Jaurès (29 Ulm - ENS)
• Study period and examinations: September, 02 2025 to february 06th 2026
• Break: October 27th to 31th, 2025
• PSL Week: November 24th to 28th, 2025
• Christmas break: December 22th 2025 to January 02nd, 2026
• Inter-semester period: January, 26th 2026 to January, 30th 2026
• Full-time internships: From February, 09th 2026

The rooms where the courses take place are indicated on the pdf schedule.

The first year offers a wealth of lectures covering a wide range of topics in modern physics, including fundamental interactions, biophysics, quantum mechanics, and condensed matter physics, among others. Students have the flexibility to choose their lectures from the ICFP course list based on their individual interests, accumulating a total of 30 ECTS credits during the first semester. Additionally, the program administration allows students to take a course outside the master's curriculum for up to 9 ECTS credits.

→ The first semester grade (MA) is calculated as the weighted average of the marks obtained in each course unit. Should this average fall below 10 out of 20, the student will be required to retake the assessments for all course units in which a mark lower than 10 was received.

Weekly attendance of the Student seminar is compulsory for the validation of the first semester ; students will have to write brief reports on some of the seminars.
 

→ The second semester is dedicated to a 6-month research internship in France (for international student) or abroad (for French student), in any field of physics or its interfaces. Its evaluation defines the mark for the second semester : MB = INTERNSHIP.

Passing the first year of the Master program (M1)

The first year is passed if the marks of both semesters (MA and MB) are larger or equal than 10, the yearly mark being their average : (MA + MB) / 2

The student who has successfully passed the M1 year of ICFP will be admitted in one of the pedagogical path of the M2 ICFP. Which path depends on the student’s proposal and of the estimate of the student’s abilities by the directors of the pedagogical paths. In case of disagreement between the student and the directors of pedagogical paths, the director of the ICFP Master program will propose one of the pedagogical paths to the student. If the student refuses the ICFP director’s proposal he/she will be considered as quitting the ICFP Master program.

In the first year of the Master program (M1), the second semester (between February and July) is entirely devoted to a laboratory research internship, which students usually carry out abroad.

This full-time internship takes place in a laboratory belonging to a public research organization or a major industrial company, preferably in the European Union, but also in North America or other countries.

It is carried out under the responsibility of a laboratory researcher, and must allow the student a certain degree of autonomy, so that he or she can derive maximum benefit from this first long-term immersion in a professional research environment.

More details can be found on the dedicated webpage.

See the master ICFP webpage for more informations on the recruitment.

See here the schedule of Student seminars