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Thanks for the help everyone! As an update I will no longer be pursuing this PhD. Perhaps I will reapply in the future (but maybe to a different subfield).

It's just how it is in the UK. Some unis provide EM courses using Jackson like Edinburgh in their MSc and others don't. Thanks for the help! I know lots of programming but 0 signal processing. This is helpful as I hadn't considered signal processing! Jumping into the papers to do a lit review...

I will start my PhD in experimental condensed matter in a year's time in the UK. Most European Physics PhDs do not have set courses, hence I don't have any text to go off on. So this will be entirely self taught for two reasons: out of interest and the potential opportunity I have to actually do...

Okay perhaps I should do Jackson then. My plan was to do Born's book anyway to be fair.

TL;DR: Jackson or Zangwill for Electrodynamics? Hi, I want to learn ultrafast optics and I am interested in condensed matter physics, ie using ultrafast optics in condensed matter systems. However, before I get onto ultrafast optics I need to improve my electrodynamics knowledge. Should I...