Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Dvořákovy přednášky

Vladimír Dvořák

Vladimír Dvořák (1934–2007)

Významný český vědec, který pracoval ve fyzice pevných látek. Zabýval se teorií feroelektrických látek a strukturálních fázových přechodů. Celý svůj produktivní život spojil s Fyzikálním ústavem. Byl jeho ředitelem v letech 1993-2001. Členem Učené společnosti byl od r. 1995. Byl protagonistou revolučních reforem ve Fyzikálním ústavu po roce 1989. K uctění této osobnosti a jeho práce organizuje Fyzikální ústav každoročně slavnostní Dvořákovu přednášku, přednesenou mezinárodně uznávanou autoritou v některém z oborů výzkumu Fyzikálního ústavu.

The LASER: a Historical Perspective

St, 04/06/2014 - 15:00

Orazio Svelto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

The 6th Dvořák Lecture

From the race to make the first laser to early developments in laser science, a description will be made of the most important achievements. Likewise, the birth of nonlinear optics and the ad- vent of ultrafast laser science will also be considered. In any case, a very coarse review of some of most important achievements will be presented, with the addition of a few anecdotes and cu- riosities as derived by the personal reminiscence of the author.

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The long journey to the Higgs boson and beyond at the LHC

St, 12/06/2013 - 15:00 - 16:00

Peter Jenni (University of Freiburg, Germany and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)

The 5th Dvořák Lecture

Since three years the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), in particular ATLAS, investigate particle physics at the highest collision energies ever achieved in a laboratory. Following a rich harvest of results for Standard Model (SM) Physics came in 2012 the first spectacular discovery of a new, heavy particle, most likely the long-awaited Higgs boson.

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Graphene Ten Years Later

St, 06/06/2012 - 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Allan H. MacDonald (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The 4th Dvořák Lecture

Graphene is an atomically two-dimensional material which was first isolated for electronic property studies by Novoselov, Geim and collaborators from the University of Manchester about ten years ago. It is a gapless semiconductor formed entirely from carbon atoms and can be viewed as a giant aromatic molecule. Graphene’s honeycomb lattice structure is bipartite; atoms on one sublattice have three nearest neighbors all on the other sublattice.

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Superfluid Helium-3: From very low Temperatures to the Big Bang

St, 08/06/2011 - 15:00 - 17:00

Prof. Dieter Vollhardt (University of Augsburg, Germany)

The 3rd Dvořák Lecture

Since their discovery in 1971 the superfluid phases of Helium-3 have proved to be the ideal testing ground for many fundamental concepts of modern physics. Phenomena such as Cooper pairing, macroscopic quantum coherence, spontaneous breaking of high symmetries, and the formation of exotic topological defects are not only an important enrichment of the physics of condensed matter,

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Quantum Information and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

St, 23/06/2010 - 15:00 - 17:00

Prof. Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna, Austria)

The 2nd Dvořák Lecture

Research on the foundations of quantum mechanics has given rise to the field of quantum information science. It should be stressed that this research beginning around the 1970s was not motivated by search for applications but rather by pure fundamental curiosity.

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Thermodynamic Approach to Nano-Inhomogeneous Ferroelectrics

St, 10/06/2009 - 15:00 - 18:00

Prof. Yoshihiro Ishibashi (Nagoya University, Japan)

The 1st Dvořák Lecture

Collaboration with Vladimir Dvorak started when he stayed in Nagoya for three months in 1975, and lasted until his final days. His visit to Nagoya gave me big stimuli and benefi ts. I could learn how to apply the group theory to phase transitions directly from him, and since then we could jointly make a certain contribution to the progress of the theory of ferroelectric phase transitions.

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