Description:

This is a seminar course that reviews current topics of research in the wide field of light-matter interaction.

Topics for the seminars will be discussed in an organizational meeting, taken from contemporary literature or research activities. Students will then prepare a paper and a presentation for two different topics (one of them may be from their own research). Both the paper and the presentation are required to be in a format compatible with research journals and scientific conferences. We will discuss in general in general the best ways to communicate scientific results, and how abstracts, papers, and other materials must be produced, including choices of software. After each presentation, there will be a question and answer session, and a discussion about the quality of the presentation and of the paper, and about how they can be improved.

In this course you will learn about current research activities, but you will also learn how to create good scientific presentations for conferences and seminars, and how to write good scientific papers. We put lots of value in both understanding and in-depth discussion and criticism of the materials that are presented as well as in improving the ability of the individual presenter to communicate scientific results in oral, graphical, and/or written form.

Topics:

Scientific topics will be discussed at an organizational meeting, and will be taken from the must current and interesting contemporary research results that have been published.

Other important topics that are always discussed in this seminar are how to give good scientific presentations, and how to write good scientific papers and abstracts. We will discuss both the technology (software) used to obtain the best results and how to convey a message in the best possible way