Electives

• Preparative methods (cell culture, etc.)
  
• Atomic force and electron microscopy
  
• Quantitative light microscopy methods
  
• Optical and magnetic tweezers
  

• Intracellular transport and cell migration
  
• Dynamics and self-assembly of membranes
  
• Fundamentals of structure and pattern formation
  
• Basics of chemoreception
  

• Intracellular transport and molecular motors
  
• Mechanics and dynamics of cytoskeletal filaments and membranes
  
• Mechanical properties of complex systems (cytoskeletal networks and cells)
  

• Neuronal signal processing
  
• Cellular concentration detection and chemotaxis
  
• Mechanotransduction
  

• Fundamentals of static spectroscopy
  
• Fundamentals of time-resolved spectroscopy
  
• Spectroscopy of molecular aggregates
  
• Single Molecule Spectroscopy
  

• The spin 1/2 system
  
• Bloch equations
  
• Density matrix representation of the Bloch equations
  
• Example of 2D spectroscopy and quantum optics
  

The topics are oriented to current scientific articles and vary from year to year.

• Quantifying the magnetic nature of light emission
• Systematic determination of the absolute absorption cross-section of individual carbon nanotubes
• Optical detection of single non-absorbing molecules using the surface plasmon resonance of a gold nanorod
• Strongly modified plasmon-matter interaction with mesoscopic quantum emitters
• Quantum interference in plasmonic circuits

• Laser design, materials and resonators
  
• Light matter interaction
  
• Generation of intense, short pulses
  
• Current laser applications in science, industry and medicine
  

• Generation and detection of ultrashort pulses
  
• Nonlinear, ultrafast optical effects
  
• Methods of femtosecond-spectroscopy
  
• Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging

• Electronic states and transitions
  
• From the gas phase to the condensed phase
• Excitons
• Comparison of organic and inorganic semiconductors
  

The lecture covers chapters 1 & 2 of the textbook Electronic Process in Organic Semiconductors, A. Köhler & H. Bässler, Wiley-VCH

• Mechanisms of charge injection and transport
• Dissociation and recombination of excitons
• Solar cells, light emitting diodes, field effect transistors
• Characterisation of semiconductor devices
  

The lecture covers chapters 3&4 of the textbook Electronic Process in Organic Semiconductors, A. Köhler & H. Bässler, Wiley-VCH

• many-body theory
  
• Light-matter interaction
  
• field quantization
  

• Continuum mechanics as a general framework that can describe both the flow of liquids and the deformation of solids
  
• Understanding the basic physical principles and relationships
  
• Applications such as turbulence or biofluidics
  

• Bandstructur
  
• Phonons
  
• superconductivity
  

• Thomas-Fermi Model
  
• Kohn-Sham Theory
  
• Exchange-correlation functionals
  

• Getting to know molecular dynamics simulations as an important tool in chemical and biological physics
  
• Understanding of the principles and algorithms
  
• Understand and apply advanced methods such as Umbrella Sampling or Metadynamics
  

• general principles of computer simulations in physics
  
• Numerical basics: machine accuracy, systems of equations, integration
  
• partial differential equations
  
• nonlinear optimization 
  
• Parallellisierung
  

• Magnetism in condensed matter
• Magnetic materials
  

• chain models
  
• collective characteristics
  
• rheology
  
• polymer solutions and mixtures, phase diagrams
  
• structure factor and scattering methods
  

• Demixing phenomena in cells
  
• Oscillations and circadian rhythm
  
• Turing pattern in cell and developmental biology   
  
• swarming
  

• Generation and properties of synchrotron radiation  
  
• The X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL)
  
• Applications of synchrotron and XFEL radiation
  

• Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics: Properties of stable nuclei, nuclear models, unstable nuclei / radioactivity 
  
• nuclear fission
  
• reactor technology
  
• nuclear Fusion
  
• photovoltaics, physics of the solar cell
  
• use of wind energy
  

• Part 1: "Synchrotron radiation and the free electron laser"   
  
• Aperiodic crystals: quasicrystals and modulated crystals    
  
• Superspace theory for modulated crystals
  

• Basic properties of plasmas: gas discharges, radio frequency heated plasmas, high temperature plasmas
  
• Description of plasmas: single particle motion, kinetic description, magnetohydrodynamics
  
• Elastic and inelastic atomic collisions, transport and diffusion
  
• Plasma diagnostics, plasma boundary
  

• How energy can be generated by nuclear fusion of hydrogen in a plasma
  
• Basics of plasma confinement in a magnetic field
  
• Equilibrium configurations and their stability
  
• Heating and diagnostics of a nuclear fusion plasma