XX Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days - Programme

The XX Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Fundamental Physics and the Department of Physics take place from 31.03. - 04.04.2008. Participants from other universities are very welcome!

Welcome

Welcome to the Physics Graduate Days. The courses are open for advanced students, in particular those working on their Diploma, Master´s and Ph.D. theses. Our aim is to offer courses that broaden the physics knowledge of our students as well as to teach specialized techniques.

The Graduate Days take place for the 20th time this spring!

The courses are organized as parallel block lectures, with the morning lectures taking place from 9:30 to 12:30 and the afternoon lectures from 14:00 to 17:00, including coffee breaks. There is also a free lunch each day included in your registration. Note that each course runs every day for five days either in a morning or afternoon slot.

In addition to the courses, there is a special lecture on Monday evening, as well as the Hans Jensen lecture, which will take place on Wednesday. On Monday evening, snacks will be provided and on Thursday evening, there is a traditional barbeque, that is also covered with registration. To take part in the XX Graduate Days, please register yourself here.

The programme and the room allocation can now be downloaded here:

Programme and room allocation

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Hans Jensen Invited Lecture

on Wednesday, 02.04.2008, at 17:30 (s.t.)
Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, Großer Hörsaal

"From spinwaves to giant magnetoresistance (GMR)-sensors: the story of an invention"

Professor Peter Grünberg

(Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 2007.

Barbeque

After the Hans Jensen Invited Lecture, we will have the d-fine barbeque!

Regular Course Programme

Morning Courses (Mo-Fr, 9:30 - 12:30)

Peter Schlagheck (University of Regensburg)	Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum transport of ultracold atoms
Louis Lyons (Physics Department, Oxford University)	Practical Statistics for Physicists
Boris Fine (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg)	Nuclear spin dynamics in solids: computational challenges and microscopic chaos)
Kim Splittorff (Niels-Bohr Institut, Copenhagen)	QCD at finite temperature and density, a matrix model approach
Christopher van Eldik (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)	High Energy Astrophysics

Afternoon Courses (Mo-Fr, 14:00 - 17:00)

Uta Fritze (University of Hertfordshire, England)	The Physics of Galaxies : Observations versus Theory - from the early universe to the present state
Klaus Hornberger (Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)	Open quantum systems and decoherence
Jochen Dingfelder, Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer and Victor Lendermann (Institute of Physics and Kirchhoff Institute of Physics, Heidelberg)	New physics at the Large Hadron Collider
Andreas Komnik (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg)	Introduction to nano and molecular electronics
Joachim Lammarsch (University Computing Center, Heidelberg)	LaTeX for physicists

Additional Lecture

On Monday evening at 17:30 (s.t.), we will have an industry lecture, followed by a general welcome party.

Dr. Andre Schüngel from the Heidelberg company SNP will give a talk on

Unified Modelling Language for object oriented design - a blessing or a curse?