Teaching

Summer Term 2009

     Special Topics - Adv. Solid State Physics

     Room: G-10 Allen Hall

     Days/Time: Thursdays at 12:30

     Topics:
  • Coherence: Quantum oscillators, NMR, Bloch equations, Bloch sphere, T1 and T2 times, decoherence processes, optical coherence and noise theorems
  • Condensates: Weakly interacting Bose gas, Ginzburg-Landau model, BEC of composite particles, BCS superconductivity, connecting BEC and BCS theory, tunnel junctions, magnetic effects
  • Electron-hole Dynamics: Mott transition, plasmons, screening, two-dimensional systems

 
 TeachingGroup.jpg

Photonics Education at the University of Pittsburgh

"Photonics" is the name most often given to the rapidly growing sector of industry which includes optical communications, optical storage, image processing, and spectroscopy; manipulating photons just as electronics manipulates electrons. David Snoke is working with members of the Chemistry Department, the Electrical Engineering Department, and the Carnegie - Mellon Technology Center to develop a unified Photonics program for undergraduates at the University of Pittsburgh. This program will allow students to major in either Physics, Chemistry, or Electrical Engineering and also receive a certificate approved by the Optical Society of America for studies in photonics. This program will allow students with these majors to move directly into the photonics industry without necessarily pursuing graduate studies in quantum optics, as is often the case at the present. This program was begun in the Fall of 2000.

Last Updated Nov. 28, 2008. Website by Ryan B., Jeff W.