The course on Applications of Group Theory in Physics will be held at Université Peleforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC) from December 02^nd  to 13^th , 2024.
 
The participants are 50 students formally registered for the first year and the second year Master’s programme in Physics, 2024–2025, at the Department of Mathematics-Physics-Chemisty, UFR-SB, UPGC.
 
The duration of the activity is 24-h and is scheduled for the same period as other courses of the Master’s programme in Physics. It includes 08-h tutorial and discussion sessions and 02-h of a session about careers and opportunities in theoretical physics.
 
 The main parts of the course include:

• Historical introduction to the concept of group and an introduction to group theory in theoretical physics.
• Generalities about representation theory.
• List of groups used by physicists.
• Crystallography.
• Eigenvectors of an operator and irreducible representations of a group.
• Wave functions and rotation group.
• Irreducible representations of rotation groups and spin.
• Two general theorems: Noether's theorem (1915) and Goldstone's theorem.
• Tutorial and discussion sessions.

     
SPEAKER:
Dr. Laure GOUBA, International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.
 
LOCAL COORDINATORS:
Dr. (MC) Siélé SILUE and Dr. Alain KOUADIO
Université Peleforo GON COULIBALY (UPGC)
UFR des Sciences Biologiques, Département de Mathématiques-Physique-Chimie. B.P 1328 Korhogo (Côte d’Ivoire)