The Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics is a core department of Kyiv Academic University and based at Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine.

The Department proposes Master of Science and PhD programs in Physics and Astronomy (specialisation 104) in the following areas of fundamental theoretical physics:

• Properties of Dark Matter in the context of the extension of the Standard Model of elementary particles (students participate in research in the SHiP experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland).
• Properties of strongly interacting matter arising in high-energy nuclear-nuclear collisions (students participate in research in the ALICE experiment, Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland).
• Cosmological consequences of the extension of the Standard Model of elementary particles and the modified theory of gravitation.
• Strongly correlated systems in condensed matter physics associated with new materials such as graphene and Weyl metals.
• New methods of mathematical physics for the study of quantum integrated systems in solid state physics and in quantum supersymmetric field theories.

The Department collaborates closely with:

• CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), 
• University of Oslo (Norway), 
• University of Tours, Tours (France), 
• Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France) 

Master and Ph.D. students can take part in internships or collaborate during their PhDs in these research centers.

Master students can choose a topic and a supervisor among the employees of the Institute of Theoretical Physics or from other institutes of the NAS of Ukraine. 
Below you can find a list of potential supervisors who have expressed the desire to follow KAU students..

Topics of master's theses at the Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics:

Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine

• Cosmological models (Shtanov Yurii Volodymyrovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Properties of strongly interacting matter and dynamics of relativistic nuclear-nuclear collisions (Gorenstein Mark Isakovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Sinyukov Yurii Mykhailovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Topological phase transitions in a condensed environment (Cusynin Valerii Pavlovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Sharapov Sergii Gennadiiovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Dynamics of non-equilibrium systems in energy representation (Lev Bogdan Ivanovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Nonlinear wave phenomena in condensed matter (Zolotariouk Yaroslav Olexandrovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Integrative models in solid state theory and quantum field theory (Iorgov Mykola Zinoviyovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Quantum optics and quantum information theory (Semenov Andrii Olexandrovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Physics of DNA, Computational biophysics (Volkov Sergii Naumovych, Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and Perepelytsia Sergii Mykolayovych, Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Space Research Institute of the NAS of Ukraine

• Research of the Earth’s electromagnetic environment according to satellite observations (Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Lizunov Georgii Vyacheslavovych, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
• Research and forecast of space weather (Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Parnovskyi Oleksii Sergiiovych, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Кафедра має співробітництво з CERN, Geneva (Switzerland), University of  Oslo (Norway), University of Tours, Tours (France), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France), яке  забезпечує можливість стажування магістрів та аспірантів в цих наукових центрах.