by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
The course outline is given in a "handbook", a one or more PDF files that contain what people will learn and other practicalities. There is a full list of handbooks at: www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/undergraduate/handbooks, but many of them are closed. The system is so closed that even the fucking course list is closed, e.g. all links at: www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/students/undergraduates are closed. Insane.
At teaching.chem.ox.ac.uk/undergraduate-course-handbook.aspx there's a paywall, but Google found the PDF it anyways.
www.ox.ac.uk/students/academic/guidance/undergraduate/handbooks in theory links to all handbooks, but some are likely paywalled. But Google can generally find them anyways.
Course lists: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/ True to form, courses appear to have identifiers, e.g. qi for the Quantum Information course of the University of Oxford rather than more arbitrary A1/A2/A3, B1/B2/B3, naming convention used by the Mathematics course of the University of Oxford and the Physics course of the University of Oxford, and URLs can either have years or not:
The "course materials" section of each course leads to courses.cs.ox.ac.uk/ which is paywalled by IP (accessible via Eduroam): TODO which system does it use? Some courses place their materials directly on "www.cs.ox.ac.uk", and when that is the case they are publicly accessible. So it is very much hit and miss. E.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/quantum/index.html from Quantum Processes and Computation course of the University of Oxford has the assignments such as www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/aleks.kissinger/courses/qpc2022/assignment1.pdf publicly visible, but e.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/modelsofcomputation/ has nothing.
Handbook:
A mixed cross department course with the philosophy department. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MCompSciPhil. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
A mixed cross department course with the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MMathCompSci. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
Video 1.
Mathematics and Computer Science at Oxford University by University of Oxford (2017)
Source.
2023: Jonathan Barrett
This section is about the version of the course offerece on Hilary term 2023 (January).
It is the norm induced by the complex dot product over :
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2022 lecturer: Aleks Kissinger
The course would be better named ZX-calculus as it appears to be the only subject covered.
2022 page: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/qsoft/ Half of the problems are Jupyter Notebooks, not bad.
The Oxford mathematics Moodle has detailed course listings, and most PDFs are not paywalled.
E.g. the 2024 course:
  • Year 1: everything seems mandatory:
    • Michaelmas Term
      • Introduction to University Mathematics
      • Introduction to Complex Numbers
      • Linear Algebra I
      • Analysis I
      • Introductory Calculus
      • Probability
      • Geometry
    • Hilary Term
      • Linear Algebra II
      • Groups and Group Actions
      • Analysis II
      • Dynamics
      • Fourier Series and Partial Differential Equations
      • Multivariable Calculus
    • Trinity Term
      • Groups and Group Actions
      • Analysis III
      • Statistics and Data Analysis
      • Constructive Mathematics
  • Year 2:
    • Mandatory big courses:
      • Linear Algebra
      • Differential Equations 1
      • Metric Spaces and Complex Analysis
    • long options:
      • Rings and Modules
      • Integration
      • Topology
      • Differential Equations 2
      • Numerical Analysis
      • Probability
      • Statistics
      • Fluids and Waves
      • Quantum Theory
    • short options
      • Number Theory
      • Group Theory
      • Projective Geometry
      • Integral Transforms
      • Calculus of Variations
      • Graph Theory
      • Mathematical Modelling in Biology
  • Year 3: pick any 8 courses. Does not say which courses exist in PDF but we can get them from courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=814 of the Oxford mathematics Moodle:
    • Michaelmas
      • B1.1 Logic (2024-25)
      • B2.1 Introduction to Representation Theory (2024-25)
      • B3.2 Geometry of Surfaces (2024-25)
      • B3.5 Topology and Groups (2024-25)
      • B4.1 Functional Analysis I (2024-25)
      • B5.2 Applied Partial Differential Equations (2024-25)
      • B5.3 Viscous Flow (2024-25)
      • B5.5 Further Mathematical Biology (2024-25)
      • B6.1 Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations (2024-25)
      • B6.3 Integer Programming (2024-25)
      • B7.1 Classical Mechanics (2024-25)
      • B8.1 Probability, Measure and Martingales (2024-25)
      • B8.4 Information Theory (2024-25)
      • B8.5 Graph Theory (2024-25)
      • BO1.1 History of Mathematics (2024-25)
      • BOE Other Mathematical Extended Essay (2024-25)
      • BSP Structured Projects (2024-25)
    • Hilary
      • B1.2 Set Theory (2024-25)
      • B2.2 Commutative Algebra (2024-25)
      • B2.3 Lie Algebras (2024-25)
      • B3.1 Galois Theory (2024-25)
      • B3.3 Algebraic Curves (2024-25)
      • B3.4 Algebraic Number Theory (2024-25)
      • B4.3 Distribution Theory (2024-25)
      • B4.2 Functional Analysis II (2024-25)
      • B5.1 Stochastic Modelling of Biological Processes (2024-25)
      • B5.4 Waves and Compressible Flow (2024-25)
      • B5.6 Nonlinear Dynamics, Bifurcations and Chaos (2024-25)
      • B6.2 Optimisation for Data Science (2024-25)
      • B7.2 Electromagnetism (2024-25)
      • B7.3 Further Quantum Theory (2024-25)
      • B8.2 Continuous Martingales and Stochastic Calculus (2024-25)
      • B8.3 Mathematical Models of Financial Derivatives (2024-25)
      • B8.6 High Dimensional Probability (2024-25)
      • SB3.1 Applied Probability (2024-25)
      • BO1.1 History of Mathematics (2024-25)
      • BOE Other Mathematical Extended Essay (2024-25)
      • BSP Structured Projects (2024-25)
  • Year 4: pick any 8 courses (up to 10 if you're crazy). Does not say which courses exist in PDF but we can get them from courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=814 of the Oxford mathematics Moodle:
    • Michaelmas
      • C1.1 Model Theory (2024-25)
      • C1.4 Axiomatic Set Theory (2024-25)
      • C2.2 Homological Algebra (2024-25)
      • C2.4 Infinite Groups (2024-25)
      • C2.7 Category Theory (2024-25)
      • C3.1 Algebraic Topology (2024-25)
      • C3.3 Differentiable Manifolds (2024-25)
      • C3.4 Algebraic Geometry (2024-25)
      • C3.7 Elliptic Curves (2024-25)
      • C3.8 Analytic Number Theory (2024-25)
      • C4.1 Further Functional Analysis (2024-25)
      • C4.3 Functional Analytic Methods for PDEs (2024-25)
      • C5.2 Elasticity and Plasticity (2024-25)
      • C5.5 Perturbation Methods (2024-25)
      • C5.7 Topics in Fluid Mechanics (2024-25)
      • C5.11 Mathematical Geoscience (2024-25)
      • C5.12 Mathematical Physiology (2024-25)
      • C6.1 Numerical Linear Algebra (2024-25)
      • C6.5 Theories of Deep Learning (2024-25)
      • C7.1 Theoretical Physics (C6) (2024-25)
      • C7.5 General Relativity I (2024-25)
      • C8.1 Stochastic Differential Equations (2024-25)
      • C8.3 Combinatorics (2024-25)
      • CCD Dissertations on a Mathematical Topic (2024-25)
      • COD Dissertations on the History of Mathematics (2024-25)
    • Hilary
      • C1.2 Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems (2024-25)
      • C1.3 Analytic Topology (2024-25)
      • C2.3 Representation Theory of Semisimple Lie Algebras (2024-25)
      • C2.5 Non-Commutative Rings (2024-25)
      • C2.6 Introduction to Schemes (2024-25)
      • C3.2 Geometric Group Theory (2024-25)
      • C3.5 Lie Groups (2024-25)
      • C3.6 Modular Forms (2024-25)
      • C3.9 Computational Algebraic Topology (2024-25)
      • C3.10 Additive Combinatorics (2024-25)
      • C3.11 Riemannian Geometry (2024-25)
      • C3.12 Low-Dimensional Topology and Knot Theory (2024-25)
      • C4.6 Fixed Point Methods for Nonlinear PDEs (2024-25)
      • C4.9 Optimal Transport & Partial Differential Equations (2024-25)
      • C5.1 Solid Mechanics (2024-25)
      • C5.4 Networks (2024-25)
      • C5.6 Applied Complex Variables (2024-25)
      • C6.2 Continuous Optimisation (2024-25)
      • C6.4 Finite Element Method for PDEs (2024-25)
      • C7.1 Theoretical Physics (C6) (2024-25)
      • C7.4 Introduction to Quantum Information (2024-25)
      • C7.6 General Relativity II (2024-25)
      • C7.7 Random Matrix Theory (2024-25)
      • C8.2 Stochastic Analysis and PDEs (2024-25)
      • C8.4 Probabilistic Combinatorics (2024-25)
      • C8.7 Optimal Control (2024-25)
      • CCD Dissertations on a Mathematical Topic (2024-25)
      • COD Dissertations on the History of Mathematics (2024-25)
Lecturer: Luc Nguyen
Video 1.
Mathematics and Statistics at Oxford University by University of Oxford (2017)
Source.
From the 2020/2021 Oxford physics course handbooks we can determine the following structure:
  • Year 1 (CP, "Coure Preliminaries", "Prelims"). Take all of:
    • CP1 Classical mechanics, Special relativity
    • CP2 Electromagnetism, circuit theory and optics
    • CP3 Mathematical methods 1. Complex Numbers and Ordinary Differential Equations. Vectors and Matrices.
    • CP4 Mathematical methods 2. Multiple Integrals and Vector Calculus. Normal Modes, Wave Motion and the Wave Equation.
  • Year 2 (Part A). Take all of:
    • A1 Thermal physics. Kinetic Theory, Heat Transport, Thermodynamics.
    • A2 Electromagnetism and optics
    • A3 Quantum physics. Quantum Mechanics and Further Quantum Mechanics.
    • Short options: at least one of:
      • Mathematical Methods
      • Probability and Statistics
      • S01 Functions of a Complex Variable
      • S07 Classical Mechanics
      • S10 Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy
      • S13 Teaching and Learning Physics in Schools
      • S14 History of Physics
      • S20 History of Science
      • S21 Philosophy of Science
      • S22 Language Options
      • S25 Climate Physics
      • S27 Philosophy of Space-Time
      • S29 Exploring Solar Systems
      • S33 Entrepreneurship for Physicists
  • Year 3 (Part B). Take all of:
  • Year 4 (MPhys). Select two from:
Trinity term, the third and final term of each year, contains mostly revision from the previous two terms, after which students take their final exams, which basically account for their entire grade. Trinity is therefore a very tense part of the year for the students. After that they have summer holidays, until coming back for the next year of madness.
The official external course landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/physics. 2021 archive: web.archive.org/web/20221208212856/https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/physics) In those pages we see the rough structure, except that it does not have the course codes "A1" etc., and some courses are missing.
At web.archive.org/web/20221229021312/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2011-06-03/course_v3_pdf_80151.pdf page 11 we can see the global course structure giving the two options, 3 year BA or 4 year Oxford physics masters: 
Year 1
(Prelims)
|
|
v
Year 2
(Part A)
|
+-----------+
|           |
v           v
Year 3 BA   Year 3 (MPhys)
(Part B)    (Part B)
|           |
|           |
v           v
BA          Year 4
            (Part C)
            |
            |
            v
            MPhys
Practical courses notes: www-teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk/
The normal navigation to them was paywalled, but the static files are served without login checks if you know their URL. One way to go about it is to search by prefix on the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/contentblock/2011/06/03/*
The last handbooks we can find are 2020/2021, they might have move to a new more properly paywalled location after that year.
Group of students that represent students academic views about the courses.
users.physics.ox.ac.uk/~lvovsky/B3/ contain assorted PDFs from between 2015 and 2019
Syllabus reads:
  • Multi-electron atoms: central field approximation, electron configurations, shell structure, residual electrostatic interaction, spin orbit coupling (fine structure).
  • Spectra and energy levels: Term symbols, selection rules, X-ray notation, Auger transitions.
  • Hyperfine structure; effects of magnetic fields on fine and hyperfine structure. Presumably Zeeman effect.
  • Two level system in a classical light field: Rabi oscillations and Ramsey fringes, decaying states; Einstein
  • A and B coefficients; homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening of spectral lines; rate equations.
  • Optical absorption and gain: population inversion in 3- and 4-level systems; optical gain cross section; saturated absorption and gain.
Professor in 2000s seems to be
But as of 2023 marked emeritus, so who took over?
Ewart is actually religious:
This dude is pure trouble for Oxford!
www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/AndreiStarinets/sr_mt_2022.html (archive) contains 2022 problem sets and notes, well done Mr Andrei Starinets!
www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml As of 2023, contains some good 2015 materials: web.archive.org/web/20220525094139/http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~barra/teaching.shtml It was called "Subatomic physics" back then.
2015 professor: Alan J. Barr.
Possible 2022 professor: Guy Wilkinson (unconfirmed): www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-guy-wilkinson
users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0014/B6-lectures.html gives a syllabus:
  • Heat capacity in solids, localised harmonic oscillator models (Dulong-Petit law and Einstein model)
  • Heat capacity in solids, a model of sound waves (Debye model)
  • A gas of classical charged particles (Drude theory)
  • A gas of charged fermions (Sommerfeld theory)
  • Bonding
  • Microscopic theory of vibrations: the 1D monatomic harmonic chain. Mike Glazer's Chainplot program.
  • Microscopic theory of vibrations: the 1D diatomic harmonic chain
  • Microscopic theory of electrons in solids: the 1D tight-binding chain
  • Geometry of solids: crystal structure in real space. VESTA, 3D visualization program for structural models; an example crystal structure database.
  • Geometry of solids: real space and reciprocal space. Reciprocal Space teaching and learning package.
  • Reciprocal space and scattering. A fun way to discover the world of crystals and their symmetries through diffraction.
  • Scattering experiments II
  • Scattering experiments III
  • Waves in reciprocal space
  • Nearly-free electron model
  • Band structure and optical properties
  • Dynamics of electrons in bands
  • Semiconductor devices. Intel's "A History of Innovation"; Moore's Law; From Sand to Circuits.
  • Magnetic properties of atoms
  • Collective magnetism. A micromagnetic simulation tool, The Object Oriented MicroMagnetic Framework (OOMMF); OOMMF movies of magnetic domains and domain reversal.
  • Mean field theory
Problem set dated 2015: users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0014/B6-materials/B6_Problems.pdf Marked by: A. Ardavan and T. Hesjedal. Some more stuff under: users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0014/B6-materials/
The book is the fully commercial The Oxford Solid State Basics.
Students choose only one of the Cx courses.
Then there are PhDs corresponding to each of them: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mpls/physics
Video 1.
A very honest review of my Oxford University master's degree (theoretical physics at keble college) by alicedoesphysics (2020)
Source. Basically all her courses are from the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, and therefore show up at the Moodle of the Oxford Mathematics Institute of Oxford.
Interesting presentation cycle at Merton BTW: www.arturekert.org/teaching/merton
Artur looks like a cool teacher.
At least they have a fucking clear course schedule unlike the undergrad.
Professor: Radu Coldea
This could refer to several more specific courses, see the tagged articles for a list.
Notes/book: www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/SteveSimon/QCM2022/QuantumMatter.pdf Marked as being for Oxford MMathPhys, so it appears that this is a 4th year course normally. TODO but where is it listed under the course list of MMapthPhys? mmathphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/course-schedule
  • Fermi Liquids
    • Weakly Interacting Fermions
    • Response Functions and Screening
      • Thomas Fermi
      • RPA
      • Plasmons
    • Landau Fermi Liquid Theory
  • Superfluidity
    • Two Fluid Model and Quantized Circulation
    • Landau Criterion for Superfluidity
    • Two Fluid Model for Superconductors
      • London Theory
      • Flux Vortices
      • Type I and Type II superconductors
    • Microscopic Superfluidity
      • Coherent States
      • Bose Condensation
      • Gross Pitaevskii Equation
      • Off Diagonal Long Range Order
      • Feynman Theory of Superfluidity (in book, but will skip in lectures. Not examinable)
    • Ginzburg Landau Theory of Superfluids
      • Neutral Superfluids
      • Charged Superfluids
      • Anderson - Higgs Mechanism
      • Rederviation of London Equations
      • Ginzburg - Landau Parameter and Type I/II revisited
      • Vortex Structure
  • BCS Theory of Superconductors
    • Phonons
    • The Cooper Problem
    • BCS wavefunction
    • Bogoliubov Excitation Spectrum
    • Majorana Physics
2010- professor: Steven H. Simon

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