Lectures: Summer Semester 2025

The 2025 summer semester runs from April 1 - September 30, 2025. Lectures run from April 7 to June 7, 2025 and again from June 16 to July 19, 2025.

General Lectures

lecture: Quantum Electrodynamics 
lecturer: Dr. Friedemann Queisser; Prof. Dr. Ralf Schützhold (TUD)
time: 

Monday: 13:00 - 14:30 (lecture)

Friday: 11:10 - 12:40 (lecture & exercises)

location: 

Monday: BZW/A120/P, Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden

Friday: REC/D016/U, Haeckelstraße 3, 01069 Dresden

start: April 7, 2025

lecture: Group Theory and its Application in Condensed Matter Physics
lecturer: Ph.D. Vilmos Kocsis (TUD)
time: 

Tuesday: 16:40 - 18:10 (lecture)

Wednesday: 09:20 -10:50 (lecture & exercises)

location: 

Tuesday: tba

Wednesday: tba

start: April 8, 2025

lecture: Solid State Theory
lecturer: Ph.D. Masudul Haque; Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Matthias Vojta (TUD)
time: 

Monday: 09:20 - 10:50

Thursday: 13:00 - 14:30

location: Monday, Thursday: BZW/A120/P, Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden
content: 0. Introduction, 1. Solids: Structure, 2. Electrons in solids, 3. Phonons, 4. Quasiclassical dynamics of electrons, 5. Transport theory, 6. Outlook: Collective phenomena
start: April 7, 2025

lecture: Magic Sword for Physicists and Complex System Scientists
lecturer: Master of Science Seungjae Lee; Prof. Dr. Marc Timme (TUD)
time: 

Tuesday: 09:20 - 10:50 (lecture) 

Thursday: 16:40 - 18:10 (lecture & exercises)

location: 

Tuesday: REC/D016/U, Haeckelstraße 3, 01069 Dresden

Thursday: BAR/0I89/U, Helmholzstraße 18, 01069 Dresden

content: Most mathematical problems arising in physics, biology, engineering and the modeling of complex systems in general are not amenable to exact solutions. These lectures offer a magic sword to address many of such problems approximately. They provide an introduction to perturbation methods, systematic expansions, asymptotics and more. These techniques find wide applications in classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, fluid dynamics, and many other areas of physics and beyond. 
Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on practical usage, providing physicists with a toolkit to tackle perturbative and asymptotic regimes in various domains. In particular, the lectures guide students to move from the mathematics of the equal "=" to the mathematics of the asymptotic "~", aiming to give them the ability to apply these methods to their own research problems. 
start: April 8, 2025

lecture: Introduction to the Physics of Soft Condensed Matter
lecturer: Arash Nikoubashman (TUD)
time: 

Monday: 16:40 - 18:10 (lecture)

Friday: 09:20 - 10:50 (lecture & exercises)

location: 

Monday: CHE/0183/U, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden

Friday: REC/D016/U, Haeckelstraße 3, 01069 Dresden

start: April 7, 2025

Specialised Lectures

lecture: Introduction to Topological Materials 
lecturer: Krishanu Roychowdhury(TUD)
time: Friday: 16:40 - 18:10
location: SE2/0201/H, Seminargebäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01217 Dresden
start: April 11, 2025

lecture: Quantum Computational Complexity
lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frank Großmann (TUD)
time: Wednesday: 11:10 - 12:40
location: Wednesday: BZW/A120/P, Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden
start: April 9, 2025

lecture: Dynamical systems
lecturer: Prof. Dr. Holger Kantz (MPI-PKS)
time: Monday: 14:50 - 16:20
location: tba
start: April 7, 2025

lecture: Computer Simulation of Soft Condensed Matter
lecturer: Holger Merlitz; Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Sommer; Marco Werner(TUD)
time: Thursday: 09:20 - 10:50 and 11:10 - 12:40 
location: tba
start: April 10, 2025

lecture: Molecular Nanostructures
lecturer: Dr. Alexey Popov/Dr. Joseph Dufouleur/Dr. Thomas Mühl, Prof. Dr. Bernd Büchner (IFW)
time: Monday: 09:20 - 10:50
location: IFW Dresden, Helmholtzstr. 20, room: B3E.26
content:  • High resolution microscopy (TEM, STM…)
• Chemical bonds in molecular nanostructures
• Synthesis and functionalisation of molecular nanostructures
• Physical properties and applications of molecular nanostructures
• Molecular magnetism
• Transport properties of graphene
start: April 7, 2025

lecture: Computational Material Science: Continuum Methods
lecturer: Dr. Rafael Gutierrez, Steffen Kampmann
time: 

Lecture: Thursday, 09:20 -10:50

Excercise: Thursday, 11:10 - 12:40, every 2nd week

location: ZEU/314/P, Zeuner-Bau, 01069 Dresden
content:  • Finite difference method
• Fourier transforms
• Diffussion processes
• Finite element method
start: April 7, 2025