Physics and Finance
Course, Master's level, 1FA361
Spring 2025 Spring 2025, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 33%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 24 March 2025–8 June 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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120 credits in science/engineering including Mechanics III and Quantum physics. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
- Selection
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Higher education credits in science and engineering (maximum 240 credits)
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 12,083
- Total tuition fee: SEK 12,083
- Application deadline
- 15 October 2024
- Application code
- UU-63156
Admitted or on the waiting list?
- Registration period
- 10 March 2025–23 March 2025
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
This course discusses similarities of concepts and methods in finance and physics in order to enhance the cross-fertilisation of these fields. The course contains portfolio theory and constrained optimisation, relations between stochastic differential equations, regression models, time series and forecasting. Bubbles, crashes and path integrals in physics and finance is also part of the course.
Contact
- Study counselling
- studievagledare@physics.uu.se
- +46 18 471 35 21