Lecture 1. Mar 21 Wed 2:30-3:30pm

Classical X-ray scattering and the static structure factor

Lecture 2. Mar 23 Fri 2:30-3:30pm

Neutron scattering and dynamical structure factor

Lecture 3. Mar 26 Mon 2:30-3:30pm

Linear response theory and retarded commutators

Lecture 4. Mar 28 Wed 2:30-3:30pm

Ideal Bose gas and Bogoliubov theory of uniform interacting Bose gas

Lecture 5. Mar 30 Fri 2:30-3:30pm

Basic introduction to the dilute trapped Bose gas

Lecture 6. Apr 2 Mon 2:30-3:30pm

A few experiments and some more exotic condensates

Lecture 7. Apr 4 Wed 2:30-3:30pm

Vortices in rotating and non-rotating condensates

Introduction to Speaker:

Professor Alexander Fetter received his Ph.D in Physics at Harvard University in 1963 and then spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1965 and has been there since then. He has served as chair of the physics department and the director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory and the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials. His research interests include low-temperature quantum fluids, superconductivity and ultracold atomic gases. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. With J. D. Walecka, he wrote a very popular many-body physics book “Quantum Theory of Many-Particle Systems ” and a mechanics book “Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua”.