Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd ČR

Dvořák lectures

Vladimír Dvořák

Vladimír Dvořák (1934–2007)

Solid state physicist, the most prominent Czech scientist in the theory of ferroelectricity and structural phase transitions, for the whole productive life affiliated with the Institute of Physics, its director in 1993-2001, member of the Learned Society since 1995. The main protagonist of the revolutionary reforms in the Institute of Physics after 1989. To commemorate his work and personality, the Institute of Physics decided to organize an annual festive Dvořák lecture, given by prominent internationally renowned scientists in the field related to the research pursued at the Institute of Physics.

The LASER: a Historical Perspective

Wed, 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

Wed, 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

Wed, 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

Wed, 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

Wed, 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

Wed, 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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