Summer Courses 2010

Course CLXXVI - "Complex materials in physics and biology"

29 June - 9 July 2010

Directors: F. Mallamace (Università di Messina), E. Stanley (Boston University)

Topics:

Scaling and Universality
Networks in Physical Science and Social Science
Polymer Systems and Gels
Physics of Biological and Medical Systems
Granular Matter
Supra-molecular Systems and Solutions
Dynamic Phenomena in Out-of-Equilibrium Systems
Turbulence in Physics and Economics
Arrested Dynamics and Jamming
Physics of Glasses
Statics and Dynamics of Liquid Water
Physics of Confined Liquids
Switching Phenomena in Economics

Lecturers:

David Chandler (Berkeley), Sow-Hsin Chen (Cambridge), Antonio Coniglio (Napoli), Kenneth A. Dawson (Dublin), Hans J. Herrmann (Zürich), Jean-Marie Lehn (Strasbourg), David R. Nelson (Cambridge), Luciano Pietronero (Roma), Itamar Procaccia (Rehovot), Harry L. Swinney (Austin), David Weitz (Cambridge), Ben Widom (Ithaca)

Seminar Speakers

Marcia Barbosa (Porto Alegre), Sergey V. Buldyrev (New York), Armin Bunde (Giessen), David K. Campbell (Boston), Giancarlo Franzese (Barcelona), Shlomo Havlin (Ramat Gan), Joseph Klafter (Tel Aviv), Rosario Nunzio Mantegna (Palermo), Maria Antonietta Ricci (Roma)

Scientific Secretary

Giuseppe Maino (Bologna)

Closing date for application: May 10th, 2010

PROGRAM		Tuesday 29 June	Wednesday 30 June	Thursday 1 July	Friday 2 July	Saturday 3 July
9:00-10:00		Widom	Widom	Widom	Pietronero	Coniglio
10:00-11:00		Swinney	Procaccia	Pietronero	Pietronero	Weitz
11:00-11:30		break	break	break	break	break
11:30-12:30		Chen	Chen	Swinney	Coniglio	Foffi
16:00-17:00		Campbell	Swinney	Coniglio	Poster
17:00-18:00		Havlin	Procaccia	Procaccia	Poster
18:00-19:00		Ricci	Bunde	Barbosa	Poster
		Monday 5 July	Tuesday 6 July	Wednesday 7 July	Thursday 8 July	Friday 9 July
9:00-10:00		Lehn	Nelson	Nelson	Chandler	Klafter
10:00-11:00		Lehn	Chandler	Chandler	Nelson	Herrmann
11:00-11:30		break	break	break	break
11:30-12:30		Weitz	Mantegna	Preis	Herrmann
16:00-17:00		Weitz	Young Res.s		Franzese
17:00-18:00		Mantegna	Young Res.s		Kumar
18:00-19:00		Pettersson	Young Res.s		Villari

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Course CLXXVII - "Advanced methods in optical fluorescence microscopy towards nanoscopy"

12 - 16 July 2010

Directors: G. J. Brakenhoff (Amsterdam University), A. Diaspro (IIT e Università di Genova)

Topics:

Fluorescence (Photophysics, Fluorescent molecules, Green Fluorescent Proteins, Photoswitchable/Photoactivatable Molecules, Photobleaching, Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer - FRET)
Three-dimensional Optical Microscopy: instruments and theory (Wide-field microscopy, Confocal and Multiphoton Microscopy, Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy, Optical sectioning, Inverse problems, Standardization and calibration methods)
Laser sources (CW, ps/fs, ultrafast, white light, fiber)
Advanced Optical Methods (3D Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching - FRAP,FRET, Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Second-Harmonic Generation Microscopy, Single Molecule Tracking, Single molecule detection, Optical trapping, squeezing and manipulation, Plasmonics, Nanoplasmonics)
Optical Nanoscopy and Super Resolution Microscopy (4PI, I5M, Structured Illumination, PALM, FPAM, STED, RESOLFT)

Lecturers:

Tony Wilson Freng (Oxford), Colin JR Sheppard (Singapore), Fred S. Wouters (Göttingen), Gertrude Bunt (Göttingen), Ranieri Bizzarri (Pisa), Enzo Di Fabrizio (Genova), Mark I. Stockman (Atlanta), Gail McConnell (Glasgow), Kevin Braeckmans (Gent), Rainer Heintzman (London), Samuel T. Hess (Orono), Stefan W. Hell (Göttingen), R. Th. Borlinghaus, Dr.rer.nat. (Mannheim)

Scientific Secretary

Paolo Bianchini (Genova)

Closing date for application: May 10th, 2010

	Monday 12 July	Tuesday 13 July	Wednesday 14 July	Thursday 15 July	Friday 16 July
9:00-10:00	A. Diaspro	G. Bunt (*)	G.J. Brakenhoff	E. Di Fabrizio	C.J.R. Sheppard
10:00-11:00	G.J. Brakenhoff	R. Bizzarri	G. McConnell (*)	G. McConnell (*)	K. Breackmans (*)
11:00-11:30	break	break	break	break	break
11:30-12:30	V. Westphal	G. Bunt (*)	K. Breackmans (*)	T. Wilson	S.T. Hess
15:00-16:00	V. Westphal	T. Wilson	F. Wouters (*)	R. Heintzmann	14:30-15:30	S.T. Hess
16:00-17:00	R. Bizzarri	S. Konzack	Andor PI Instruments Horiba	M. Bastmeyer J. Paysan	15:30-16:30	M. Stockman
17:00-18:00	R. Bizzarri	R. Uhl	F. Wouters (*)	R. Heintzmann	16:30-17:30	M. Stockman
18:00-19:00	E. Di Fabrizio	C.J.R. Sheppard	F. Wouters (*)	R. Borlinghaus	17:30-19:00	Student Arena

(*) The marked lectures are password protected.

Complete Program

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Course CLXXVIII - "From the Big Bang to the nucleosynthesis"

19 - 24 July 2010

Directors: A. Bracco (Università di Milano), E. Nappi (INFN di Bari)

Topics:

The fundamental interactions and their unification just after the Big Bang
The quark and gluon plasma
Separation of the forces at the cooling and expansion of the Universe
The dynamics of explosive Star Scenarios and the role of nuclear reactions
Neutron stars and the nuclear equation of states
Supernovae and collective nuclear modes
Dark Matter and Energy
Production techniques for nuclei far from stability
Ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

Lecturers:

Karlheinz Langanke (Darmstadt), Marcello Baldo (Catania), Thomas Aumann (Darmstadt), William Lynch (East Lansing), M. Harakeh (Caen), Marek Lewitowicz (Caen), Peter Butler (Liverpool), Tohru Motobayashi (Saitama), Antonio Masiero (Padova), Urs Wiedemann (Geneve), Federico Antinori (Padova)

Scientific Secretary

Benedicte Million (Milano)

Closing date for application: May 10th, 2010

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		Monday 19 July	Tuesday 20 July	Wednesday 21 July	Thursday 22 July	Friday 23 July	Saturday 24 July
9:00-10:00		Langanke	Langanke	Lynch	Lewitowicz	Baldo	Baldo
10:00-11:00		Aumann	Aumann	Masiero	Motobayashi	Motobayashi	Antinori
11:00-11:30		break	break	break	break	break	break
11:30-12:30		Wiedemann	Wiedemann	Harakeh	Harakeh	Antinori	Butler
16:00-17:00		Wiedemann	Lynch	Lewitowicz	Baldo	Butler	free
17:00-18:00		Masiero	Masiero	Benzoni	Spitaleri	Antinori	free
18:00-19:00		Poster	B. Tsang		Guglielmetti Milazzo	Studenti	free

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