Summer workshop
The "International Max Planck Research School of Advanced Photon Science" (IMPRS APS) and the Cluster of Excellence "Munich Center for Advanced Photonics" (MAP) of the German Research Society offer a joint summer workshop for their PhD student members. A lecture program is currently being set up. Lectures will be given by world-class experts both from within MAP and IMPRS and from outside.
Speaker |
Affiliation |
| Prof. Dr. med. Michael Molls | Technical University of Munich / Klinikum rechts der Isar, Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology: "Radiation Oncology: present status and future" |
| Prof. Dr. Jan Wilkens | Technical University of Munich / Klinikum rechts der Isar, Department of Radiation Oncology: "Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology" |
| Dr. Alberto Bravin | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble: "Diagnostic X-ray imaging: new developments towards the clinical practice" |
| Prof. Dr. Mauro Nisoli | Department of Physics, Politecnico of Milan: "Attosecond physics" |
| Prof. Dr. Albert Stolow | Steacie Institute for Molecular Science, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa: "Ultrafast molecular dynamics" |
| Prof. Dr. Martin Wolf | Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Director of the Department of Physical Chemistry: "Ultrafast Surface Dynamics" |
| Prof. Dr. Wolfang Zinth | Chair of BioMolecular Optics, LMU Munich: "Ultrafast processes in chemistry and biology" I: Biological and II: Exemples |
| Prof. Dr. Mathias Nest | Head of Theoretical Chemistry Group, TU Munich: "Wave function based methods for correlated many body systems" |
| Prof. Dr. Hartmut Ruhl | Chair of Computational and Plasma Physics, LMU Munich: "The Particle-In-Cell technique applied to the solution of the Maxwell-Boltzmann equations" |
| Prof. Dr. Armin Scrinzi | Computational and Plasma Physics Group, LMU Munich: "Time-dependent Schrödinger equation in strong laser fields" |
| Prof. Dr. Markus Arndt | Quantum Nanophyics Group, University of Vienna: "Coherence, decoherence and dephasing in matter wave interferometry with clusters and molecules" |
| Prof. Dr. Michael Wolf | Quantum Information and Many-Body Theory Group, University of Copenhagen: "Quantum information and quantum computation" |
| Prof. Dr. Vladan Vuletic | Experimental Atomic Physics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: "Photon-Atom Quantum Systems" |
Date and place: Sun., Aug. 1 through Fri., Aug. 6, 2010 in Wildbad Kreuth.
Participants: IMPRS-APS and MAP Phd students.
Four general topics will be covered by the workshop:
Physical applications in Radiology, Radiation Biology and Oncology
Advanced photonics is becoming ever more important in modern clinical applications. We will cover both the diagnostics and the therapy side, and provide introductions from a medical and physical point of view. Starting from the fundamentals and current clinical practice, we will also highlight new technologies like brilliant x-ray imaging and radiotherapy with laser-accelerated particle beams.
Ultrafast physics
Ultrafast physics has evolved into a variety of large sub-fields, ranging from attosecond pulse generation in atoms to the observation of electron dynamics in molecules and solids. By virtue of the frequency comb ultrafast physics is also linked to precision spectroscopy.
Computational physics
Many predictions for physics problems can only be solved by computational methods. Here experts on computational physics will lay the foundation stones so that every participant should eventually have an idea on how to tackle computational problems.
Quantum information technology
Advanced photonics on the single photon side has enabled generation of many-photon entangled states and coherent matter-photon coupling. Not only is this at the heart of quantum optics, but it is also the basis of emerging quantum computation technology.
In addition to lectures on these topics, the participants will have the opportunity to attend soft skill courses.