École de Physique des Houches

Die École de Physique des Houches ist ein internationales Forschungs- und Begegnungszentrum in den Savoyer Alpen. Es befindet sich in Les Houches im französischen Département Haute-Savoie. Das Zentrum wurde 1951 von der theoretischen Physikerin Cécile DeWitt-Morette gegründet. Es ist eine gemeinsame Einrichtung der Universität Joseph Fourier (UJF) in Grenoble und dem Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG).

Diskussion von Yuval Ne'eman, Bryce DeWitt, Kip Thorne im Hörsaal, 1972

Die École de Physique des Houches bietet ein weites Angebot an Seminaren für Physiker verschiedener Fachgebiete an. Der erste Kurs wurde 1951 von Léon Van Hove gegeben und war der Quantenmechanik gewidmet. Die Schule konnte sehr schnell viele berühmte Physiker der Gegenwart als Tutoren anziehen, darunter zum Beispiel die Nobelpreisträger Enrico Fermi, Wolfgang Pauli, Murray Gell-Mann und John Bardeen. Unter den jungen Schülern befanden sich unter anderem Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Georges Charpak und Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, welche, damals noch unbekannt, später ebenfalls den Nobelpreis erhalten sollten. Ebenfalls zu den Schülern zählt der Mathematiker Alain Connes, späterer Gewinner der Fields Medaille.

Im Verlauf der Jahre öffnete sich die Schule auch für weitere benachbarte Fachgebiete, wie die Mathematik, die Chemie oder die Biologie. Heute werden dort vor allem vielfältige Konferenzen und wissenschaftliche Fortbildungen (Sommerschule) organisiert.

Die bisherigen Direktoren waren Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Roger Balian, Raymond Stora, Jean Zinn-Justin und François David. Der gegenwärtige Direktor ist Jean Dalibard.

Die Sammelbände der Vorträge erschienen unter anderem bei Wiley, Gordon and Breach, Oxford University Press, North-Holland, Springer und Elsevier.

Liste der Les Houches Lectures

Die Bände beziehen sich auf die Sommerschule. Titel in englischer Fassung.

Band 1: Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, 1951
Band 2: Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics, Nuclear Physics 1952
Band 3: Quantum Mechanics, Solid State, Statistical Mechanics, Elementary Particles 1953
Band 4: Quantum Mechanics, Theory of Collisions: Two-Nucleon Interaction, Quantum Electrodynamics 1954
Band 5: Quantum Mechanics, Nonequilibrium Phenomena, Nuclear Reactions, Interaction of the Nucleus with Atomic and Molecular Fields 1955
Band 6: Quantum Perturbation Theory, Low Temperature Physics, Quantum Theory of Solids, Dislocations and Plastic Properties, Magnetism, Ferromagnetism 1956
Band 7: Diffusion Theory, Recent Developments in Field Theory, Nuclear Interaction, Strong Interaction, Electrons at High Energy, Experiments in High Energy Nuclear Physics 1957
Band 8: Many Body Physics 1958
Band 9: Theory of neutral and ionized gases, 1959
Band 10: Dispersion relations and elementary particles 1960
Band 11:Low Temperature Physics 1961
Band 12: Geophysics: The earth´s environment 1962
Band 13: Relativity, Groups and Topology, 1963
Band 14: Quantum Optics and Electronics 1964
Band 15: High Energy Physics 1965
Band 16: High Energy Astrophysics, 1966
Band 17: Many-Body Physics 1967
Band 18: Nuclear Physics 1968
Band 19: Physical problems in biological systems, 1969
Band 20: Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, 1970
Band 21: Particle Physics, 1971
Band 22: Plasma Physics 1972
Band 23: Black Holes 1972
Band 24: Fluid Dynamics 1973
Band 25: Molecular Fluids 1973
Band 26: Atomic and Molecular Physics and the Interstellar Matter, 1974
Tagung im Juni: Structural analysis of collision amplitudes, 1975
Band 27: Frontiers in Laser-Spectroscopy, 1975
Band 28: Methods in Field Theory, 1975
Band 29: Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energy, 1976
Band 30: Nuclear physics with mesons and heavy ions, 1977
Band 31: Ill-condensed matter 1978
Band 32: Physical Cosmology 1979
Band 33: Membranes and intercellular communications 1979
Band 34: Laser-Plasma Interaction 1980
Band 35: Physics of Defects 1980
Winter School 1980: Magnetism of metals and alloys
Band 36: Chaotic behaviour of deterministic systems 1981
Band 37: Gauge theories in high energy physics 1981
Band 38: New Trends in Atomic Physics 1982
Band 39: Recent advances in field theory and statistical mechanics 1982
Band 40: Relativity, Groups and Topology II, 1983
Band 41: Birth and Infancy of Stars, 1983
Band 42: Cellular and molecular aspects of development biology, 1984
Band 43: Critical phenomena, random systems, gauge theories 1984
Band 44: Architecture of fundamental interactions at short distances, 1985
Band 45: Signal processing 1985
Band 46: Chance and Matter 1986
Band 47: Astrophysical fluid dynamics, 1987
Band 48: Liquids at interfaces 1988
Band 49: Fields, strings and critical phenomena 1988
Band 50: Oceanographic and geophysical tomography 1988
Winter School 1989: From Number Theory to Physics
Winter School 1989: Cellular Automata and Modeling of Complex Physical Systems
Band 51: Liquids, freezing and glass transition, 1989
Band 52: Chaos and Quantum Physics, 1989
Band 54: Supernovae 1990
Band 55: Particles in the Nineties, 1991
Band 56: Strongly interacting fermions and high Tc superconductivity, 1991
Band 57: Gravitation and quantizations 1992
Band 58: Progress in picture processing, 1992
Band 59: Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1993
Band 60: Cosmology and Large Scale Structure 1993
Workshop: Nonlinear Excitations in Biomolecules 1994
Band 61: Mesoscopic Quantum Physics, 1994
Winter School 1994: Beyond Quasicrystals
Band 62: Fluctuating geometries in statistical mechanics and field theory, 1992
Band 63: Quantum Fluctuations 1995
Band 64: Quantum Symmetries, 1995
Band 65: From cell to brain 1996
Band 66: Trends in nuclear physis, 100 years later, 1996
Band 67: Modelling the climate of the earth and its variability, 1997
Band 68: Particles and Interactions: Test of the Standard Model, 1997
Workshop: Scale invariance and beyond, 1997
Workshop: From quasicrystals to more complex systems 1998
Badn 69: Topological aspects of low dimensional systems 1998
Band 70: Infrared space astronomy, today and tomorrow 1998
Band 71: The Primordial Universe 1999
Band 72: Coherent Atomic Matter Waves 1999
Band 73: Atomic Clusters and Nanoparticles, 2000
Band 74: New Trends in Turbulence, 2000
Band 75: Physics of Bio-Molecules and Cells, 2001
Band 76: Unity from duality: gravity, gauge theory and strings, 2001
Band 77: Slow relaxations and nonequilibrium dynamics in condensed matter, 2002
Band 78: Accretion discs, jets and high energy phenomena in astrophysics, 2002
Band 79: Quantum entanglement and information processing, 2003
Band 80: Methods and Models of Neurophysics 2003
Band 81: Nanoscopic Quantum Physics 2004
Band 82: Multiple Aspects of DNA and RNA: From Biophysics to Bioinformatics, 2004
Band 83: Mathematical Statistical Physics, 2005
Band 84: Particle physics beyond the standard model, 2005
Band 85: Complex Systems, 2006
Band 86: Particle physics and cosmology : the fabric of spacetime, 2006
Band 87: String Theory and the Real World: From Particle Physics to Astrophysics, 2007
Band 88: Dynamos 2007
Winter School 2007: Astronomy in the submillimeter and far infrared domains with the Herschel Space Observatory
Band 89: Exact Methods in Low-dimensional Statistical Physics and Quantum Computing 2008
Band 90: Long Range Interacting Systems, 2008
Band 91: Ultracold Gases and Quantum Information, 2009
Band 92: New Trends in the Physics and Mechanics of Biological Systems 2009
Band 93: Modern Perspectives in Lattice QCD: Quantum Field Theory and High Performance Computing 2009
Band 94: Many Body Physics with Ultracold Gases, 2010
Band 95: Quantum Theory from Small to Large Scales, 2011
Band 96: Quantum Machines: Measurement Control of Engineered Quantum Systems 2011
Band 97: Theoretical Physics to Face the Challenge of LHC, 2011
Band 98:
Special Issue 2012: Advanced Data Assimilation for Geosciences
Winter School 2012: Physics with trapped charged particles
Band 99: Strongly interacting quantum systems out of equilibrium, 2012
Band 100: Post-Planck Cosmology, 2013
Special Issue 2013: Statistical Physics, Optimization, Inference, and Message-Passing Algorithms
Band 101: Quantum optics and nanophotonics, 2013
Band 102: From Molecules to Living Organisms: An Interplay Between Biology and Physics 2014
Band 103: Topological Aspects of Condensed Matter Physics, 2014

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