Macromolecular crystallography, chemical kinetics, time-resolved crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, Moessbauer spectroscopy, electron spin resonance spectroscopy.

Content: Conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, waveguides, gauge transformations retarded potentials, electric and magnetic dipole radiation, radiation by a point charge, electrodynamics and relativity.

Content: Differential vector calculus from Coulomb’s law to Maxwell’s equations. Mathematical introduction, gradient, curl and divergence, method of images, solutions to Laplace’s equation by separation of variables, multipole expansion, magnetic and electric fields in matter, the magnetic vector potential, boundary conditions, induction, Maxwell’s equations.

Introductory Physics Course: From Coulomb’s law to Properties of Light. Content: Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law for electric and magnetic fields, capacitors, Kirchhoff’s rules, Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, inductors, alternating current, Maxwell’s equations in the integral form, wave equation, wave function, EM radiation, reflection, refraction, diffraction.

Content: UV/VIS spectroscopy, ORD, CD, (FT)IR, NMR, pulsed (FT)NMR-1D-2D, (functional) MRI, EPR, pulsed EPR, ENDOR, EXAFS, Mössbauer spectrocopy and their applications in molecular Biophysics

Content: Dynamic light scattering, scattering of X-rays, traditional crystallography, time-resolved macromolecular crystallography with the Laue method, holography with X-rays and electrons, electron microscopy, electron tomography and their applications in molecular Biophysics

Content: Mathematical basics, chemical kinetics, (time-resolved) UV/Vis and FT-IR spectroscopy, traditional crystallography, time-resolved macromolecular crystallography with the Laue method.