See information about the forthcoming Short Courses to be given by invited speakers, funded by the Spanish Government:
Flyer with description of short courses
The MsC in Photonics offers several courses given by visiting professors, which will be held between October and July in the different campuses. Attendance to any of these courses is free, and are also open to students and researchers out from the MSc in Photonics. Feel free to distribute this information among your colleagues. Detailed information on time schedule, classrooms, etc. will be added here below a few days before each course.
Please note that next courses will be held very soon:
TITLE: "EXCITONIC AND POLARITON PHENOMENA IN SEMICONDUCTORS"
SPEAKER: Prof. Enda McGlynn, Dublin City University, Ireland
Enda McGlynn is a senior lecturer in the School of Physical Sciences and a member of the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology in Dublin City University. He was a postdoctoral research in the Materials Group in the National Microelectronics Research Centre in Cork, Ireland (now the Tyndall National Institute). His scientific research interests are in the growth and characterisation of wide bandgap semiconductor nanostructures, mainly of the ZnO family and specifically in vapour phase transport and chemical solution growth, patterning and optical characterization. Dr McGlynn has authored over 80 papers in international journals.
COURSE CONTENTS:
1. Review of basic aspects of relevant semiconductor physics.
2. Interactions between quasi-particles
3. Free and bound excitons and multi-exciton complexes
4. Exciton stability (temperature, electric fields)
5. The breakdown of the Fermi golden rule – polariton phenomena
6. Essential physics and modelling of polaritons in bulk materials
7. Polariton phenomena in 2-D and 1-D structures
8. Threshholdless lasing via micro-cavity polaritons
9. BEC of micro-cavity polaritons
10. Recent developments
DATES: 19-23 April, 2010
TIME SCHEDULE: from 9:30 to 11:30h
VENUE: Physics Faculty, UB. Sala de Graus Eduard Fonseré
RECOMMENDED FOR: Photonic Materials
HOSTED BY: Frank Güell (UB)
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TITLE: "LIGHT INDUCED CONTROL OF COLD ATOMS"
SPEAKER: Prof. Juan Gonzalo Muga, Universidad del País Vasco, UPV-EHU, http://tp.lc.ehu.es/qist/
Juan Gonzalo Muga is Professor at the Universidad del País Vasco, UPV-EHU where he leads the Group QuINST: Quantum Information, Science and Technology (UPV-EHU/Ikerbasque). Gonzalo Muga is interested in fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics where he has contributed with pioneering works to define characteristic times and, more recently, in the emerging field of atomtronics. Gonzalo Muga is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed journal publications and has been cited around 2 000 times. In 2008, he was distinguished as and “outstanding referee” by the American Physical Society, and in 2009 as fellow of the APS.
COURSE CONTENTS:
1. Maxwell’s demon
2. The atom diode
3. The magic mirror: stopping and cooling particles by moving barriers
4. Shortcut to adiabaticity
5. Time and clocks
6. Atomic clocks, interferometers and cold atoms
7. Arrival times and atomic fluorescence
8. Trapped ions in metrology and quantum information
9. Einstein beyond E=mc2
10. Zeno effect
DATES: 19-22 April, 2010
TIME SCHEDULE: from 15:00 to 17:00h
VENUE: Physics Faculty, UB, Seminar Room Pere Pascual
RECOMMENDED FOR: Quantum Optics, Atom Optics & BEC
HOSTED BY: Artur Polls (UB)
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Information about past short courses:
The first course of academic year 2009/10 was held last October:
TITLE: "Chaos, classical, quantum, and wave"
SPEAKER: Prof. Dr. Fritz Haake. Fachbereich Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
ABSTRACT:
This course will describe universal features of classical and quantum chaos as well as classical/quantum interrelations. On the classical side, ergodicity and a certain busheling phenonemon of trajectories and periodic orbits will be highlighted. The quantum counterparts are universal fluctuations in spectra and transport properties. The phenomenological description of universal quantum fluctuations by random-matrix theory will be sketched, with emphasis on the recent extension of the ``classic'' three Wigner/Dyson symmetry classes by Zirnbauer and Altland to new classes realizable in disordered superconductors. Time permitting the recent semiclassical explanation of random-matrix type universaity will be discussed.
HOSTED BY: Prof. Dr. M. Lewenstein (ICFO)
