Scientific Calendar Event



Description
An ICTP PREPARATORY SCHOOL will be organized the week before the College (from 8 to 12 February 2016) for a limited number of selected participants.

The Preparatory School will provide background tutorials and exercises designed to help the participants in following the College lectures.
 
Go to day
  • Monday, 8 February 2016
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration fomalities 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1) )
        All participants are requested to register.  Please allow sufficient time to complete 
        administrative formalities. The shuttle will leave from the AGH at regular intervals during 
        registration to take visitors who have been offered financial support to the Operations Office (EF Building).
      • 09:30 Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory I 1h0'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Introduction to Fourier Theory I 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h0' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Introduction to Fourier Theory II 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 15:00 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 15:30 Fourier optics Lab Introduction 30'
        Speaker: Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:00 Fourier optics Lab Session I 1h0' ( Informatics Laboratory - Adriatico )
        Groups 1 and 2
        Speaker: Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 16:00 Laboratory Session I on Spectroscopy 1h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
        Group 3
        Speaker: HUMBERTO CABRERA MORALES (Istituto Venezolano de Investigationes Cientificas, Venezuela))
  • Tuesday, 9 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Introduction to Electromagnetic Theory II 1h30'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Signal Analysis: Wiener-Khinchin, noise, SNR, averaging 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics I 1h30'
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Laboratory Session II on Spectroscopy 1h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
        Group 1
        Speaker: HUMBERTO CABRERA MORALES (Istituto Venezolano de Investigationes Cientificas, Venezuela)
      • 16:00 Fourier optics Lab Session II 1h30'
        Groups 3, 4 and 5
        Speaker: Anna Consortini (University of Florence, Italy)
        Material: Slides
  • Wednesday, 10 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 17:30
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Introduction to Quantum Mechanics II 1h30'
        Atomic line broadening
        Speaker: Imrana Ashraf (Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Pulse propagation in materials and waveguides I 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Pulse propagation in materials and waveguides II 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 15:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 16:00 Energy levels of molecules I 1h30'
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides
  • Thursday, 11 February 2016
    • 09:00 - 16:00
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Energy levels of molecules II 1h30'
        Line broadening. Basics of the cavity ring down spectroscopy. Some applications in Microscopy to increase the sensitivity.
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 11:00 Introduction to Nonlinear Optics I 1h30'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Slides
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 14:00 Laboratory Session III on Spectroscopy 2h0' ( ICTP MLab - Multidisciplinary Laboratory )
        Groups 2, 4 and 5.
        
        "Cavity ring down spectroscopy combined with Microscopy to increase sensitivity. Determination of the absorption coefficient in pure liquids: water, ethanol."
        Speaker: Humberto Cabrera Morales (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Venezuela)
  • Friday, 12 February 2016
    • 10:00 - 15:30
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Introduction to Nonlinear optics II 2h0'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
      • 12:00 Lunch break 1h30' ( Adriatico Guest House - Cafeteria )
      • 13:30 Mathematica Simulation Workshop 2h0'
        Speaker: Miguel Alonso Gonzalez (University of Rochester, USA)
        Material: Mathematica file