Physics is an experimental science. Its progress is due to a constant exchange between theory and experiments. Experimental skills are thus a requirement.

The aim of these seminars is to give a perspective about the role of fundamental science in solving societal problems and boosting industrial innovation. A vision on how quantum technologies are inspiring top-class physics research in the private sector will be the core of this teaching.

The main goal of this course is to provide an introduction to the subject of topological phenomena in condensed-matter. 

This course is a research oriented introduction to a rapidly expanding theme in condensed matter. We present several aspects of this contemporary field including fundamental questions, materials, techniques and applications. 

The objective of this course is to cover the background required to understand one major system in future quantumbased technologies in the solid state, namely localized spins of atoms embedded in a solid state matrix.

The main goal of this course is to provide an advanced view of the optical response of quantum materials. 

Modern physics is characterized by an increasing complexity of systems under investigation, in domains as diverse as condensed matter, astrophysics, biophysics, etc. Due to the growing availability of experimental data, data-driven modelling is emerging as a powerful way to model those systems. The objective of the course is to provide the theoretical concepts and practical tools necessary to understand and to use these approaches.

The goal of this course is to introduce the main methods in electronic structure theory, which is at the heart of our present capability of understanding, predicting, and engineering materials properties based on accurate in-silico solutions of the many-body Schrödinger equation for electrons and their coupling with the lattice/structural degrees of freedom.