 ELECO 2023 Invited Tutorial
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Dirk van der MAREL Emeritus Professor University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland E-mail: dirk.vandermarel@unige.ch Music is rhythm, melody, or a combination of these two. There exist innumerable refinements involving polyphony, harmony, tonality, instrumentation, structure. Humans can make music, animals too, so do natural phenomena and inanimate objects. Certain aspects involve human creativity or – for the spiritually inclined among us – divine inspiration, for other aspects we all agree that these follow the laws of physics. Obviously, the latter is the core material of courses on physics of music. However, the former is what beauty is about, and it would be a sin to omit it. The purpose of this talk is to provide the audience with a taste of the vast subject of physics of music. |
 Professor Dirk van der MAREL Biography - Dirk van der Marel obtained his doctorate in mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Groningen in 1985. He has held positions as scientific collaborator at Philips Eindhoven, at the University of Delft and at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, in 1992 full professor at the University of Groningen, and since 2003 full professor at the University of Geneva where, in 2021, he became “professeur honoraire”. He has been Chairman of the Condensed Matter Physics Department, University of Groningen, Director of the Condensed Matter Physics Department, University of Geneva, Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation and President of the Physics school, University of Geneva. He is now an Emeritus Professor since August 2021 after a brilliant research career in the thematics of High-Tc superconductors, Condensed Matter Physics, and infrared spectroscopy. His scientific interests are in the collective behavior of electrons, superconductivity, magnetism, metal-insulator transitions, conductance quantization and optical phenomena related to superconductivity and magnetism. In the field of high Tc superconductivity he made pioneering contributions on transverse optical Josephson plasmons, on the experimental testing of the interlayer tunneling mechanism of pairing, on superconductivity-induced color changes, and on quantum critical scaling of the optical properties. For this work, Dirk van der Marel, emeritus professor at the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at the University of Geneva, has won the 2016 Frank Isakson Prize of the American Physical Society for Optical Effects in Solids.  He awarded as an outstanding referee for the Physical Review Journals of APS by the American Physical Society in 2018.  He has contributed to the discovery of 1D quantum conductance, transport and optical properties of transition metal oxides, heavy fermion materials and transition metal silicides, on the polaronic nature of charge carriers and on the superconducting pairing in doped SrTiO3. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications.  |
