School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Scientific Requirements for Admission

The following knowledge must have been acquired during the studies on Bachelor´s level (percentages are used, if no ECTS credits are provided):

  • knowledge of a programming language corresponding to 8 ECTS credits or 4%; and
  • 24 ECTS credits or 13% which can be assigned to one of the following specialization fields:

Experimental Physics (Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Atoms and Molecules), Thermodynamics, Data Analysis and Statistics

Self-assessment test for Atmospheric Physics

Electromagnetics / Electromagnetic Theory, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Techniques in Engineering /Computational Engineering

Self-assessment test for Computational Electromagnetics

Analysis I, II and III, Linear Algebra I and Introduction to Stochastic Calculus, Introduction into Numerical Analysis, Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, Functional Analysis

Self-assessment test for Computational Finance

Newton’s laws, circular motion, harmonic oscillator, forced oscillations, energy and momentum conservation, elastic scattering. Basic relations of relativistic kinematics. Coloumb’s law of electric forces, Lorentz force, law of induction, propagation of planar electromagnetic waves in vacuum and matter. Quantisation of energy levels in atoms, excitations of atoms, photoelectric effect, description of microscopic particles with wave functions, Compton scattering. Radioactive decays.

Self-assessment test for Detector Physics

Atomic Physics, Nuclear Physics, Basic Quantum Mechanics

Self-assessment test for Imaging in Medicine

Physical Chemistry (including Introductory Thermodynamics), Modern General Physics.

Self-assessment test for Molecular and Materials Modelling

Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particle Physics, Theoretical Physics (Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics).

Self-assessment test for Theoretical Particle Physics

If the knowledge at the Bachelor´s level is not sufficient for the choice of a specialization field, admission can be granted conditional on the fulfillment of further requirements. Mathematical knowledge corresponding to a Bachelor of Science or Engineering is assumed.

Last modified: 24.09.2025