Ecole de Physique des Houches

The École de Physique des Houches is an international research and meeting center in the Savoy Alps . It is located in Les Houches in the French department of Haute-Savoie . The center was founded in 1951 by the theoretical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette . It is a joint institution of the University of Joseph Fourier (UJF) in Grenoble and the Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG).

Discussion by Yuval Ne'eman , Bryce DeWitt , Kip Thorne in the classroom, 1972

The École de Physique des Houches offers a wide range of seminars for physicists in various fields. The first course was given by Léon Van Hove in 1951 and was devoted to quantum mechanics. The school quickly attracted many famous contemporary physicists as tutors, including Nobel Prize winners Enrico Fermi , Wolfgang Pauli , Murray Gell-Mann and John Bardeen . The young students included Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , Georges Charpak and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , who, at that time still unknown, would later also receive the Nobel Prize. The mathematician Alain Connes , later winner of the Fields Medal, is also among the students .

Over the years, the school opened up to other related subjects, such as mathematics , chemistry and biology . Today a variety of conferences and scientific training courses ( summer school ) are organized there.

The previous directors were Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Roger Balian , Raymond Stora , Jean Zinn-Justin and François David . The current director is Jean Dalibard .

The anthologies of the lectures have been published by Wiley, Gordon and Breach, Oxford University Press, North-Holland, Springer and Elsevier, among others.

List of Les Houches Lectures

The volumes refer to the summer school. Title in English.

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

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