Lectures: Summer Semester 2024
The 2024 summer semester runs from April 30 - September 30, 2024. Lectures run from April 8 to May 18, 2024 and again from May 27 to July 20, 2024.
General Lectures
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| lecturer: | Dr. Lukas Janssen (lectures) and Dr. Zihong Liu (exercises) (TUD) | |
| time: | Monday, Friday: 09:20 - 10:50 | |
| location: | Monday: BZW/A120/P, Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden Friday: SE2/201/H, Seminargebäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01217 Dresden | |
| content: | 1. Introduction, 2. Classical phase transitions and universality, 3. Statistical mechanics and path integrals, 4. Renormalization group, 5. Theoretical models for quantum phase transitions, 6. Quantum phase transitions: Primer, 7. Magnetic quantum phase transitions, 8. Quantum phase transitions of bosons and fermions | |
| start: | April 8, 2024 |
| lecture: | Effective Field Theory and Renormalization Groups | |
| lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Dominik Stöckinger (TUD) | |
| time: | Monday, Wednesday: 09:20 -10:50 | |
| location: | Monday: ASB/114, Andreas-Schubert-Bau, Zellescher Weg 19, 01069 Dresden Wednesday: SE2/102, Seminargbäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01069 Dresden | |
| content: | The concepts and methods of effective field theory, along with renormalization and the renormalization group, are of fundamental importance in many modern applications of quantum field theory. The term "effective field theory" means that at sufficiently low energies/long distances (or in some more general limits) essentially any fundamental microscopic theory can be approximated by a local quantum field theory. Relevant cases of such an approximation are solids/condensed matter systems which can be approximated by continuous local field theories, grand unified theories which can be approximated by the Standard Model of particle physics, or the Standard Model of particle physics which can be approximated by QED at low energies. Renormalization and the renormalization group allow to optimize the parametrization of quantum field theories. Important physical effects can often be absorbed in a redefinition of parameters (e.g. so-called running couplings), which allows efficient computations and a deep physical understanding of phenomena. All these points are explained in detail in the lecture. The lecture focuses particularly on working out numerous examples of importance in current research, related e.g. to the Higgs boson, its mass and couplings, to the magnetic moment g-2 of the muon, to hadrons and to grand unification. | |
| start: | April 8, 2024 |
| lecture: | Chaos and Quantum Chaos | |
| lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Roland Ketzmerick (TUD) | |
| time: | Mondays, Tuesdays: 13:00 - 14:30 | |
| location: | BZW A 120, Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden | |
| content: | Hamiltonian chaos: dynamical systems, KAM-theorem, origin of chaotic dynamics, transport in phase space. Quantum signatures of chaos: spectra, eigenstates, semiclassics, Gutzwiller trace formula, random matrix theory, experimental systems. | |
| start: | April 8, 2024 |
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| lecturer: | Dr. Thomas Brumme; apl. Prof. Dr.Thomas Doert; Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine; Prof. Dr. Michael Ruck (TUD) | |
| time: | Monday: 09:20 -10:50 and 13:00 -14:30 Tuesday: 14:50 -16:20 | |
| location: | Monday: CHE/182 (first lecture) and CHE/398 (second lecture), Chemie-Neubau, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden Tuesday: CHE/398, Chemie-Neubau, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden | |
| start: | April 8, 2024 |
| lecture: | Theoretical Femtosecond Physics | |
| lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Frank Großmann (TUD) | |
| time: | Lectures: Tuesday 9:20-10:50 Thursday 9:20-10:50, every second week Exercises: Thursday 9:20-10:50, every second week | |
| location: | BZW A120, Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden | |
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| start: | April 9, 2024 |
Specialised Lectures
| lecture: | Modern Numerics for Theoretical Physics | |
| lecturer: | Nina Elkina; Prof. Dr. Ralf Schützhold (TUD) | |
| time: | Friday: 07:30 - 09:00 and every second week 11:10 - 12:40 | |
| location: | SE2/0102/U, Seminargebäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01217 Dresden | |
| content: | The "Modern Numerics for Theoretical Physics" course guides students to the thought processes involved in formulating physical problems so that a computer can solve them effectively. The subsequent discretization, programming and verification of numerical results constitute the main practical part of this course. The whole "computational thinking" workflow with a particular emphasis oThe "Modern Numerics for Theoretical Physics" course guides students to the thought processes involved in formulating physical problems so that a computer can solve them effectively. The subsequent discretization, programming and verification of numerical results constitute the main practical part of this course. The whole "computational thinking" workflow with a particular emphasis on energy-to-solution metrics will be studied in detail on examples from computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, photonics and quantum electrodynamics. Students are encouraged to develop their computer skills by solving related problems on small to medium high performance computing environments. n energy-to-solution metrics will be studied in detail on examples from computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, photonics and quantum electrodynamics. Students are encouraged to develop their computer skills by solving related problems on small to medium high performance computing environments. | |
| start: | April 12, 2024 |
| lecture: | Solid State Theory | |
| lecturer: | Dr. Tobias Meng (TUD) | |
| time: | Wednesday, Thursday: 13:00 -14:30 | |
| location: | Wednesday: SE02/201, Seminargebäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01217 Dresden Thursday: BZW/A120, Bürogebäude Zellescher Weg 17, 01069 Dresden | |
| content: | The lecture, together with the corresponding exercise, teaches the most important basics of the theoretical description of solids. In particular we deal with: 1. Introduction to solids, 2. Lattice vibrations, 3. Electrons on the lattice, 4. Properties of free and interacting electrons, 5. Transport theories | |
| start: | April 10, 2024 |
| lecture: | Rydberg Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Ultracold Gases | |
| lecturer: | Dr. Matthew Eiles (MPI-PKS) | |
| time: | Monday: 11:10-12:40 | |
| location: | MPI-PKS room 1D1, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden | |
| content: | This course will survey topics in modern AMO theory with an emphasis on applications in Rydberg systems, including:
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| start: | October, 9th |
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| lecturer: | Prof. Dr. Thomas Heine; Dr. Jan-Ole Joswig (TUD) | |
| time: | Thursday and Friday (every two weeks): 09:20 -10:50 | |
| location: | CHE/309, Chemie-Neubau, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden | |
| start: | April 11, 2024 |
| lecture: | Statistical Methods in Data Analysis | |
| lecturer: | Ph.D. Frank Siegert; Philipp Sommer (TUD) | |
| time: | Tuesday 16:40 -18:10 | |
| location: | SE2/123, Seminargebäude 2, Zellescher Weg 20, 01217 Dresden | |
| start: | April 9, 2024 |