Timeline for Is there any chance for a person with BSc in mathematics to get into good graduate level theoretical physics program?
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| Jun 24 at 16:26 | comment | added | Kvothe | Machine learning is getting big in many fields of science and might be a great way in, since those skills are highly sought after. I know of physics professors who was working on this who specifically hired people with machine learning backgrounds. I do believe these students did also have a decent physics background having at least taken many courses in it. (This approach probably works better in systems where professors specifically higher students for specific research programs as is more common in Europe than the US.) | |
| Jul 6, 2013 at 15:38 | vote | accept | Dinesh | ||
| Feb 3, 2013 at 16:21 | comment | added | Peter Shor | If you are on a graduate admissions committee for a physics department, applications such as yours will bring some questions to mind. (i) How do they know they want to do physics if they don't know anything about it? (ii) How do I know they have any talent for physics? I don't see how you can address these questions without taking any physics courses. There are a number of mathematics departments with physicists in them, and you have a much better chance of getting in if you apply to one of these places. (But make sure they aren't just doing physics, but the right kind of physics.) | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 8:36 | comment | added | unsym | @rsg Yes, functional analysis helps to understand Lagrangian and energy functional, and operator algebra are used everywhere in QM for canonical quantization and commutation relation | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 7:57 | comment | added | RSG | @user1709828 i have also migrated from maths to physics (actually QM). some knowledge in functional analysis and operator algebra helped me a lot. one reason for developing these subjects was to understand QM and quant stat mech. all the best for your journey. | |
| Feb 3, 2013 at 3:41 | history | migrated | from physics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 3, 2013 at 0:00 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:23 | comment | added | unsym | It is a bit hard. But if you can accept the basics in QM as axiom and have a good mathematical background in say, complex analysis, Greens function, spectal analysis, calculus, differential equation. I would say you could get a good grade in introduction of QFT. Notice that some courses might focus more on physics and some on mathematics, you can only know that by talking with course instructor. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:10 | comment | added | user1709828 | by "can i?" I mean how likely can a motivated student succeed? | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:08 | comment | added | user1709828 | Ok, can i take these directly without at least semester course in QM? | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:06 | comment | added | unsym | Is there such course in your university? You might try to talk to those professors teaching these course as they might give you good suggestion, and even a recommendation letters. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:04 | comment | added | user1709828 | QFT,String theory. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | unsym | @user1709828 Yes. Which area are you interested in? | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:03 | comment | added | user1709828 | EM=Electricity and Magnetism right? | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 23:00 | history | answered | unsym | CC BY-SA 3.0 |