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abstract: This workshop on Deep Field Imaging is organised by Cavendish Astrophysics and is part of the Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses on the Square Kilometre Array Design Studies (MCCT SKADS.) The aim of the EU MCCT programme is to promote, discuss and disseminate SKA and SKADS ideas to young researchers in order to provide the next generation of European astronomers with basic and advanced scientific and technology knowledge.

abstract: The purpose of the School is to promote cosmic ray physics and astrophysics within the Latin American community. This School aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and experimental aspects of Cosmic Ray Physics and Astrophysics. It is open to late-term undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers interested in learning the essentials of these fields. The list of lecture topics includes: experimental techniques, primary spectrum and composition of cosmic rays; high-energy interactions; gamma ray astronomy and GRBs; neutrino astrophysics; cosmic ray detectors; simulation; solar modulation, and present status of the development and results from several present-day observatories such as the Pierre Auger, IceCube, HESS, KASCADE, etc.

abstract: The NCCR Climate, Switzerland's Centre of Excellence in Climate and Climate Impact Research, invites young scientists to join leading climate researchers in a scenic southern Swiss alpine setting.

abstract: Implementation of dual-beam focused ion beam (FIB), basic electron and ion optics, electron/ion interaction with materials and EDS, and criteria for understanding images based on the various available signals and detectors.

Hands-on experiments: HRSEM and FIB imaging, channeling contrast, localized electron/ion induced deposition, enhanced etching, cross-section SEM specimen preparation, H-bar TEM specimen preparation, and Lift-Out TEM specimen preparation.

Six hours of lectures on FIB/SEM followed by 14 hours of hands-on training on the Technion dual beam FIB (Strata 400s).

Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM): basic electron optics and resolution; point resolution compared to the information limit, reciprocal space and electron diffraction, imaging by diffraction contrast (bright field, dark field, two-beam conditions), phase contrast (contrast transfer function, HRTEM, basic approaches to determining atomic positions, strain measurements), STEM (Z-contrast and EDS), and EFTEM (EELS, energy filters, interpretation of data).

24 hours of lecture followed by 26 hours of experiments on the Technion monochromated and aberration corrected FEG-TEM.

abstract: The purpose of the Summer School is to provide a qualified overview on the rapidly developing areas of spintronics, magnetoelectronics and nanomagnetism.The lectures will be oriented on last year PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The scientific scope will include important topics, such as half-metals and diluted magnetic semiconductors, hybrid systems, spindependenttransport properties, effects of finite temperatures, spin dynamics, magnetism of nanostructures, relativistic effects, and electron correlations.

abstract: The aim of this year's School is to present a wide panorama of current research in Theoretical Physics: Quantum Fields and Strings, Gravitation, Biology and Supercomputing. World leading scientists in their respective domains will give an authoritative introduction to what are considered as the most promising ideas and research activities in various directions. This is meant to positively contribute to broaden our view of science in an era of super specialization. It is assumed that participants have already received a specific training in Quantum Field Theory and Theoretical Particle Physics. The School consists of academic lectures and discussion sessions. There will be plenty of time for other activities in the Campus of Parma University, sports, culture, sightseeing.

abstract: The purpose of the Summer School is to provide a qualified overview on the rapidly developing areas of spintronics, magnetoelectronics and nanomagnetism.The lectures will be oriented on last year PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The scientific scope will include important topics, such as half-metals and diluted magnetic semiconductors, hybrid systems, spindependenttransport properties, effects of finite temperatures, spin dynamics, magnetism of nanostructures, relativistic effects, and electron correlations.

abstract: Functional micro- and nanostructures are essential to the development of novel and innovative technologies. The University of Hamburg is one of the leading international centers in micro- and nanostructure research. In six courses you will get a compact insight into the theoretical principles, experimental methods, simulation of real structures, and topical areas of micro- and nanostructure research. The lectures will be complemented by laboratory visits and computer exercises. Invited internationally recognized scientists will present their research and discuss current topics with you. You can present your own research results in a poster session and discuss them with Ph. D. students from the University of Hamburg. Two excursions to the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and a company will complement the scientific program. This summer school particularly addresses advanced students with a Bachelor's degree, Vordiplom, or equivalent, Diplom candidates and Master's students.

abstract: The aim of this Summer School is to provide graduate students, post docs, and last year undergraduates with exceptional marks and motivation for physics, of a general introductory overview of some of the most exciting topical developments on Condensed Matter and Nanoscopic Physics. The Summer School will consist on a series of introductory lectures given by internationally recognized leading experts.

abstract: Hot and dense nuclear matter plays an important role in the quark-hadron transition shortly after the big bang, in the element production in stars and the interior of neutron stars. The properties of such matter under extreme conditions can be studied in heavy-ion collisions.

Several countries operate facilities or have plans to build new accelerator systems to investigate hot and dense nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions. Such facilities are located in RIKEN near Tokyo, at GSI in Darmstadt, at GANIL in Caen and at MSU in East Lansing. For extremly relativistic energies, heavy-ion beams are available at 200 GeV per nucleon in the center of mass system at RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) in Brookhaven and even higher energies will be available at 14 TeV at the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in the ALICE experiment at CERN in Geneva. Erice 2008 "Heavy Ion Collisions from the Coulomb Barrier up to the Quark Gluon Plasma" will be devoted to the physics at these facilities and will explore future plans at the GSI Darmstadt (FAIR) and at the "Future Isotope Science Facility" at MSU in the States.

abstract: This highly successful course, now in its 16th year, provides an insight into the principles which underlie this important topic. The course is run by the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, a worldwide centre of excellence in the field. Tribology - the science and technology of friction, wear and lubrication - makes a vital contribution to almost every area of industrial activity and yet is often underrepresented in the education of scientists and engineers.

abstract: …the aim of the Association "School of Neutron Scattering Francesco Paolo Ricci" is to promote, support and encourage, on the national territory, initiatives in the field of Science, Technology and Culture. With this, it is intention of the association to keep alive the thought of Prof. Francesco Paolo Ricci and to carry on his work in favor of the neutron scattering community, especially concerning the training of young scientists. To achieve its aims, the Association will contribute to the education of students and young researchers and to the development of multidisciplinary projects involving neutron scattering techniques and its applications. The Association will moreover organize and promote schools, courses, seminars, conferences, workshops, symposia, meetings and every other cultural initiative in the field of neutron spectroscopy. The Association will support and popularize scientific information in its field of interest, through publications, books, monographs, videotapes and information systems. The Association will also organize meetings with private citizens and public or private operators about scientific and technological topics, in order to awaken them to the new requirements of advanced research…

abstract: The Mexican School of Particles and Fields is a biennial conference organized by the Division of Particles and Fields of the Mexican Physical Society designed to gather specialists in different areas of high energy physics to discuss the latest developments in the field.

abstract: The Frontiers in Optics Conference is the premiere event uniting the entire OSA community. The Conference will offer a number of Short Courses designed to increase your knowledge of a specific subject while offering you the experience of knowledgeable teachers. Enhancing the event will be an exhibit floor featuring leading optics companies.

abstract: It will mainly consist in short courses on mathematical problems linked to quantum chaos. Thus, it is primarily targetted at senior graduate students, postgraduate students and junior faculty but experienced researchers are also welcome. The topics will be quantum toral automorphisms, quantum chaos on compact hyperbolic surfaces and quantum graphs.

abstract: Space Climate School aims to introduce under-graduate and post-graduate students, young space researchers and all other interested to the basics of the key topics of Space Climate, including Earth's climate and Sun-climate relations.

abstract: Aspects related to the operation and fabrication of organic devices. We will consider the main components that make up a flexible screen, the field effect transistor (the driver) and light emitting diodes. Most of the device fabrication and testing will be carried out in an integrated inert glovebox system. Use of atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) with soft materials and the information found in phase images of composites.

abstract: Epitaxial growth of III-N compounds, Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), X-Ray characterization using Synchrotron radiation (in particular grazing incidence diffraction, grazing incidence small angle X-Rays scattering (GISAXS) and Anomalous Diffraction), Characterization at the monolayer scale of deformation profile using MEIS (Medium energy ion scattering), Quantitative analysis of High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (HRTEM) images, Raman spectroscopy of nanostructrures.

The lectures will be followed by practical training in MBE, Xray diffraction and MEIS.