Lectures

A collection

• Lectures on Irreversibility. Winter School for Theoretical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, december 12-16, 2016, Domaine des Masures, Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium:
  • Do Demons Exist? (Modified version of the Arollo lecture.)
  • Boltzmann’s and Planck’s Approach to Irreversibility.
  • The Density Operator and Redfield Theory.
• Invited lecture Arollo, Switzerland, march 4, 2016:
  • Do Demons Exist?
• Series of lectures for the Fundamentals course at the 24th Jyväskylä Summer School, august 6-22, Finland on Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics:
  • Thermodynamics.
  • Thermodynamics of Light.
  • The second law versus Classical Mechanics.
  • Fluctuations and Maxwell’s Demon.
  • Of Molecules and Media.
  • Of Electrons, Energy, and Excitons.
  • Dipole-Environment Interaction.
  • The Density Operator and Redfield Theory.
  • Classical Mechanics versus Quantum Mechanics.
  • Questions without Answers (unfinished).
• Two lectures for the HRSMC course Photophysics, Photochemistry, and Photobiology (PPP), april 2014:
  • Of Molecules and Media.
  • Of Electrons, Energy, and Excitons.
• Invited plenary lecture Dielectrics Society, Reading England, 2013:
  • Dielectrics and Reaction Dynamics.
• Invited HRSMC lecture, november 22, 2012, UvA Amsterdam:
  • Proton Tautomerization Kinetics.
• Three lectures (powerpoint) given for the EPA summerschool  Photochemistry Egmond, The Netherlands, in 2003, and for the Troisième Cycle de Physique Romande in Lausanne, 2004:
  • Polarization properties of solvents.
  • Reaction rates and Marcus Theory.
  • Molecules in Solution and Energy Transfer.
• Three additional lectures (one pdf) given in Lausanne:
  • Density Operator and Liouville Equation.