Lectures and Seminars in WS 2021/22
This is a new undergraduate course on Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory. Discover the strange world of Minkowski space and relativistic mechanics and learn more about the fundamental structure of electrodynamics. Recommended for students in the 4. and 6. semester.
Complex systems exhibit fascinating physical properties, but they are not necessarily complicated. This course is concerned with the collective behavior of many-particle systems, emergent phenomena, classical and quantum chaos, and nonequilibrium phase transitions.
In our joint weekly seminar the Bachelor and Master students working on Gauge/Gravity Duality and Statistical Physics give informal talks in order to present their projects and to discuss open problems and possible solutions. Everyone is invited to participate.
Previously given Lectures and Seminars (SS 20)
Welcome to our Advanced Seminar during the winter term 2021/22. In this seminar we intend to address advanced topics and current research related to Critical Phenomena and Conformal Invariance.
This is the standard lecture on Mathematics for students of Physics and Engineering. It covers an introduction to differential equations in the first half and to complex analysis in the second. The emphasis is to point out the relevance of mathematical concepts in Physics.
In our joint weekly group seminar the Bachelor and Master students working on Gauge/Gravity Duality and Statistical Physics give informal talks in order to present their projects and to discuss open problems and possible solutions. Everyone is invited to participate.
Previously given Lectures and Seminars (WS 19/20)
This is the undergraduate course on Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics and its relation to classical information theory. Learn more about state spaces, Markov processes, information, the Second Law, thermal equilibrium as well as nonequilibrium physics.
In Newtonian physics, space and time are a container in which our lives take place. General Relativity changes this viewpoint radically: Space and Time are rather physical objects in themselves, exhibiting a surprisingly rich physical behavior with deep implications on Astrophysics and Cosmology.
10 years ago we started the first seminar on Quantum Information Theory at the Physics Faculty in Würzburg. Since then the course has attracted many students and turned into a full lecture for Master students with accompanying tutorials.
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