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THE ENRICO FERMI YEAR
A TRIBUTE TO THE "ITALIAN NAVIGATOR" FATHER OF THE WEAK FORCES
GALILEO GALILEI FOUNDATION
WORLD FEDERATION OF SCIENTISTS
ETTORE MAJORANA CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
GALILEO GALILEI CELEBRATIONS
Four Hundred Years Since the Birth of MODERN SCIENCE
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A NATO Advanced Study Institute |
Sponsored by the:
PROGRAMME AND LECTURERS
A special lecture
Photonic Molecular and Supramolecular Devices
Introductory Lectures
The Roles of Structure Confinement and Spatial Resolution in the Spectroscopy of Physical Systems
Photonic Structures: Atoms, Molecules and Crystals
Experimental Techniques
Optical Near-Field Spectroscopy
The Future of Laser Technology for Spectroscopy
Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensionality
Optical Properties of Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots
Growth and Spectroscopy of Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots
Bloch Oscillations in Semiconductor Superlattices
Optical Anisotropy of Semiconductor Nanostructures
Temporal Resolution
Creation, Characterization and Applications of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
Localization and Spectral Properties
Spectral Properties of Films and Nanocrystals
Percolation and Localization in Semiconductor Solid Solutions
Spontaneous Emission within Photonic Atoms
Applications
Coherence Effects in Quantum Optics
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Solitons in Optical Fiber Telecommunications
Fiber Lasers
Structures and Models of Glasses
Luminescence of Doped Glasses
Luminescence of Spatially Confined Systems
Spectroscopic, Laser, and Nonlinear Properties of Nanocrystalline Ceramics
Nanometre-scale physics is progressing rapidly and soon the top-down approach of semiconductor technology will meet the scales of the bottom-up approaches of supramolecular chemistry and of spatially localized excitations in ionic crystals. This course will deal with the fabrication, measurement and understanding of the relevant structures and will bring together the scientific communities responsible for these developments. The advances in this area of Physics have already led to applications in optoelectronics and will likely lead to many more.
The subjects of the Course will include spatially resolved structures such as quantum wells, quantum wires and dots, single atoms and molecules, clusters, fractal systems and the development of related techniques like near-field spectroscopy and confocal microscopy to study such systems. The meeting will deal with the progress in both theory and experimental techniques, but will also revisit the well-established topics of luminescence.
Each lecturer will develop a coherent section of the program starting at a somewhat fundamental level and ultimately reaching the frontier of knowledge in the field in a systematic and didactic fashion. The formal lectures will be complemented and illustrated by additional seminars and discussions. The Course is addressed to workers in spectroscopy-related fields from universities, laboratories and industries. Senior scientists are encouraged to participate.
The Institute will provide the participants with an opportunity to present their research work in the form of short seminars or posters.
Interested candidates should write to the Director of the School:
specifying:
i) date and place of birth together with present
nationality;
ii) degree and other academic qualifications;
iii) present position, place of work and current research
activities;
iv) a letter of recommendation from their research group leader or
from a senior scientist active in the field;
v) a list of graduate courses attended (if the applicant is a
graduate student);
vi) a list of publications (optional).
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DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL |
B. DI BARTOLO - A.
VOITOVICH |
DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE |