Year-1 training will extend throughout the first year, encompassing 8 core modules, 7 option modules, 1 short project and transferable skills courses. The core modules will be assessed for everyone, and provide underpinning material from right across the field. Students will elect to be assessed in 5 of the option modules. The modules will variously contain lectures, workshops and group work.
Training modules offered will be:
Core modules:
- Quantum Mechanics
- Statistical Mechanics
- Mathematics I
- Applied Statistics
- Computer Programming and Numerical Methods
- Methods of Computer Simulation
- Electronic Structure Theory
- Software Development
Option modules:
- Applied Computational Chemistry
- Mathematics II
- Quantum Mechanics in Condensed Phases
- Intermolecular Potentials
- Chemical Reaction Dynamics
- Advanced Quantum Mechanics
- Advanced Statistical Mechanics
The project is intended to broaden experience of research in a research group setting. The project will normally be undertaken after Term 3 and be supervised by core Staff.