Stefan Mudry
Affiliation:Uniwersity of Lviv
Period of Stay:04.12.2017 – 15.12.2017
Title of the Lecture:New materials
Contents:

  1. Structure and physical properties of high entropy alloys.
  2. Self-organization at structure formation process under nonequilibrium condition.
  3. Magnetocaloric effect
  4. Strongly correlated electron systems.
  5. Thermal properties of solids and liquids.
  6. Diffusion in multicomponent systems.
  7. Icosahedral quasicrystals. Structure and physical properties.
  8. Solid and liquid solutions.
  9. Clusters and nanoparticles in nanotechnologies.
  10. Surface properties of solids and liquids

Valeria Rodionova
Affiliation:Laboratory of Novel Magnetic Materials Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad
Period of Stay:16.11.2017 – 01.12.2017
Title of the Lecture:Magnetic nanostructures
Contents:

  1. Magnetism and Magnetic Phenomena: from policy to Gauss gun
  2. Magnetic microwires: from fabrication and properties to practical applications
  3. Magnetic measurements and sensing
  4. Electromagnetic nano- and micro - tweezers and actuators
  5. Introduction to magnetic nanoparticles: from history to practical applications

Darek Bogucki
Affiliation:Texas A&M University — Corpus Christi
Period of Stay:15.06.2017 - 15.07.2017
Title of the Lecture:Ocean Physics - a physicist's point of view.
Contents:

  1. Job opportunities for Physicists in USA and at TAMUCC in particular - an overview.
  2. Ocean waves - dispersion relation. Nonlinear waves - solitons. Monstruous waves.
  3. Ocean waves - inner waves
  4. Turbulence - small, powerful and enigmatic 
  5. Statistics methods in turbulence description.