Wimbledon College of Arts, London: 30 June - 04 July 2014On this section of the course we will help to inspire and develop you as a designer providing you with the opportunity to experience one of the top most influential cities for creative practices. Through the design brief you will learn how to

The series of peace treaties, commonly known as the Treaty of Utrecht, marked a turning point in European and even global history. It created a political system that held until World war I. This course will show the meaning and the backgrounds of this peace treaty. Lectures, literature and

This course will examine how the Holocaust and other genocides affected European society. Which political, economic and social circumstances led to these crimes against humanity in modern Europe? How can we explain the recurrence of war-related violence in a globalized society? How did European

The Summer School of Slavonic Languages (SSSL) at the Philosophical Faculty of Palack%FD University in Olomouc organizes courses of Czech language for foreigners and also other courses in Slavonic languages, Russian language or Polish language in particular, for students from other countries.After

Understanding causal relations is a core problem of scientific research (e.g. effectiveness of a drug, effect of CO_2 on the climate, impact of interest rate on the market). Since causality describes the behaviour of a system under interventions it is crucial for predicting the effects of our

What sort of repertoire of rituals can be developed in daily life, life events and life crises, and how can spiritual professionals make sure these match the spiritual needs of their participants as closely as possible? In the summer school program, lecturers on rituality, religious education and

This course explores Europe after the Second World War. Lecturers will discuss the history, politics, economics and cultural aspects of European countries in the second half of the twentieth century. The main focus of the course will be the European Union, transatlantic relations and the impact of

An exciton is a quasiparticle in an interband excited state of semiconductors, a bound state of an electron in a conduction band and a hole in a valence band. This electron-hole (e-h) pair is coupled with a photon to form an exciton polariton (referred to as a polariton), a hybridized substance of

We seek to reorganize the basic understanding of Nuclear Structure Physics from a rather broad view point by combining the individual knowledge that you may already have. Nuclei can be defined as a "Quantum Finite Many-body System" in which Strong, Electromagnetic and Weak interactions

As early students of physics, we are sometimes taught to fear themany-body problem because it has no exact solution. As we mature, we recognize that the true beauty of nature is most often a result of many-body physics. Can we understand a rainbow using perturbative QED as the starting point?