CP3 Genius Bachelor

CP3-Genius Bachelor Programme

The CP3-Genius Programme is an offer for bachelor students in physics and mathematics at SDU. The purpose is to provide an introduction to high-energy physics and the centre’s research interests, thereby enabling the students to participate in research already at the level of the bachelor project and master thesis.

You will:

• Keep following your standard bachelor curriculum and at the same time you will join the advanced research programmes at our centre.
• Be part of a mini unit consisting of one or two graduate students (master and/or PhD students), a postdoc, and a staff member.
• Be able to acquire the required skills ranging from the use of supercomputers, advanced theoretical physics concepts and mathematics in order to address the challenging problems you will encounter.

CP3-Genius Feedback Meeting

To ensure that everything goes as planned every year we will have a CP3-Genius Feedback Meeting, where we will discuss your progress.
Also, every six months we will have a pizza meeting, where Post Docs and Staff members will present their recent research results and discuss possible bachelor projects and master theses.

Finally, note that CP3-Genius students should sent their average grade every year before the end of July. 1st year students should only send the average of their Physics and Mathematics grades. To stay in the CP3-Genius Program, you must maintain an average degree of at least 10.

When to sign up

It is possible to sign up for the program at all bachelor levels, but you are of course encouraged to start as early as possible.

To insure maximum effect of the program 1^st year students should sign up no later than March 20, 2^nd and 3^rd year bachelor students should sign up by either January 20 or August 20.

Schedule

Below you can find details on our regular schedule. For each part of the programme, we also list the graduate students responsible for the specific study group. If you have special interests in specific topics, we can tailor the programme for you.

1^st Year

4^th Quarter

• Special relativity (Eugenio Del Nobile and Matin Mojaza).
• First year project within CP3’s area for example on cosmology or collider physics.

You are also suggested to follow the linear algebra course provided by IMADA.

2nd Year

1^st Quarter

Introduction to complex analysis: (Tuomas Hapola & Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard)

• Holomorphic functions.
• Complex integration.
• Cauchy’s integral- and residue theorem.

2^rd Quarter

Classical Field Theory: (Jakob Jark Jørgensen and Matin Mojaza)

• Variational principle
• Lagrangin and Hamiltonian mechanics
• Canonical Transformation
• Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and transition to Quantum Mechanics

3^nd Quarter

Electromagnetism: (Eugenio Del Nobile and Jakob Jark Jørgensen)

• Maxwell’s equations, differential form.
• Gauge transformations.
• Four-vector notation in electromagnetism and special relativity.

4^th Quarter

We encourage you to follow the master course on cosmology or the bachelor course in complex analysis.

3rd Year

1^st and 2^nd Quarter

We encourage you to follow the master course on advanced quantum mechanics.

Introduction to quantum field theory (Ulrik Ishøj Søndergaard)

3^rd and 4^th Quarter

Bachelor project supervised by CP3-Origins.

Disclaimer

This honour programme builds entirely on the voluntary “extra” work carried out mostly by the graduate students with the support of postdocs, staff members and administration at CP3-Origins. Therefore no claims can be made towards any decisions made by the people involve nor about the form of the programme. We are, however, always happy to receive your feedback and suggestions for improving it.

Poster

The poster for the CP3 Genius Bachelor Programme can be found here.