Lecture Series

An important component of the IRTG for the interdisciplinary training and education of the PhD students are the lecture series of the CRC/TRR. The aim of this lecture is to support the fundamental understanding of the cross-sectoral topics of the CRC/TRR and allow the PhD students to get an insight in research topics and methodologies of the CRC/TRR 270 outside their own research project. The lecture series are organized as block courses with a basic module at the beginning of the funding period to provide a joint base of knowledge among the PhD students and a advanced module at the middle of the funding period to deepen this knowledge.

Basic Module

Lecture 01:	Functional magnetic materials and hysteresis
Lecture 02:	Magnetic field and magnetic moments
Lecture 03:	Magnetic periodic table
Lecture 04:	Ferromagnetism (I)
Lecture 05:	Ferromagnetism (II)
Lecture 06:	Coherent rotation of magnetization, Stoner-Wohlfarth model and Brown`s paradox
Lecture 07 & 08:	Magnetic domain structure and magnetization processes
Lecture 09:	Micromagnetism, domain walls and single domain particles
Lecture 10:	Permanent magnets
Lecture 11:	Hysteresis, thermal effects and magnetocaloric materials

Advanced Module: Functional Magnetic Materials – from Itinerant Electrons to Modern Materials

Lecture 01:	Quantum-mechanical Origin of Magnetism
Lecture 02:	Thermodynamics of electron gas, exchange interaction
Lecture 03:	“Solvin” Schrödinger´s equation: Getting realistic density of states from numerical schemes, DFT
Lecture 04:	Elementary models of band magnetism: Stoner model, metamagnetism
Lecture 05:	Magnetism and lattice structure: Iron as prototype of a magnetic functional material
Lecture 06:	Magnetism and Band filing: Slater-Pauling curve, half metallicity and shape memory effect in Heusler compounds
Lecture 07:	Magnetism at finite temperatures: Itinerant vs. loxalised description, Heisenberg model
Lecture 08:	Spin orbit coupling: Magnetocrystalline anisotropy and anisotropy of orbital moments

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