Teaching
For over 30 years, J. Surdej has taught a variety of courses in Astrophysics, Interferometry, Gravitational Lensing, Analytical Mechanics, Special Relativity and Radiative Transfer to bachelor, DEA, master and PhD students (Liège University, Canakkale University, Nice-Sofia-Antipolis University, University of Hawaii and at various summer and winter schools).
Astrophysics and Space Techniques (in English and French)
In this course of Astronomy and space techniques, we introduce all the necessary concepts that enable us to understand the basic observational data, the structure and the evolution of galactic objects (stars, ...), of extragalactic ones (galaxies, clusters, quasars, ...) as well as modern ground-based, space telescopes and their instrumentation. This course has been designed for future engineers willing to understand and communicate with other people basic concepts of astronomy (cf. the Olbers paradox : why the night is dark?) as well as to those wishing to pursue more specialized studies in astrophysics (cf. end-of-year theses oriented towards astrophysics, master in space sciences, PhD in astrophysics, ...) or a future career in this field.
Analytical Mechanics II (in French)
The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics is intimately connected to the introduction of generalized coordinates which are used to describe the motion of a system of particles (including the solids) by elimination of possible constraints restricting their motions.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc34YaN3N7IoVguEbgfyCAXVwBY1wS59T
Special Relativity (in English and French)
The course of special relativity starts with a brief description of the difficulties encountered while attempting to interpret various physical experiments at the end of the XIXth century. We then introduce the Lorentz transformations and the space-time of Minkowski. Time dilation and length contraction are being discussed and analyzed in depth. The dynamical equations of a particle are then derived in the framework of special relativity. An intuitive approach of Special Relativity is also presented.
Observing the Sky and Earth (in English and French)
This course mainly deals with the observation of the sky and of the Earth. In this context, we organize campaigns of nigth observations to locate in the sky the brightest stars and the main constellations. We also make use of virtual observatories to study various kinds of celestial objects. Part of this course is dedicated to a good understanding of modern telescopes and their instrumentation, located on the ground and in space with the aim to perform sky or Earth observations. The principles and operation of infra-red, optical (cf. the ESO VLTI), sub-millimeter (ALMA) and radio (VLTI and VLBA) interferometers, large future telescopes (OWL, ELTs) are reviewed.
Introduction to optical and IR interferometry (in English)
This course has been taught during various summer schools and also at various observatories and universities (cf. 2017 Evry-Schatzman school in Roscoff-France, Antofogasta-Chile, IUCAA-India, ESO-Paranal). It concerns a general introduction to optical/IR interferometry, including a brief history, a presentation of the basic principles, some important theorems, relevant applications and some hands-on experiments. The layout of these lectures is as follows. After a short introduction, we proceed with some reminders concerning the representation of a field of electromagnetic radiation. We then present a short history of interferometry, from the first experiment of Fizeau and Stefan to modern optical interferometers. We then discuss the notions of light coherence, including the theorem of Zernicke-van Cittert and describe the principle of interferometry using two telescopes. We present some examples of modern interferometers and typical results obtained with these. Finally, we address three important theorems: the fundamental theorem, the convolution theorem and the Wiener-Khinchin theorem which enable to get a better insight into the field of optical/IR interferometry.
The complete lectures on an introduction to optical/IR interferometry (10 hours course) were recorded live in April 2018 at IUCCA, PUNE, INDIA (10 videos representing 5 lectures). You can access the playlist on ACE - IUCAA youtube site:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3jLiVc5sr3PHiVkE_uCq_wS0LLZnVkph
IUCAA then organized during the 14 August - 2 October 2020 period a series of 10 on-line lectures based on these videos with some Zoom meeting interactions between the participants and Prof. J. Surdej. These Zoom interactions are part of the Youtube playlist.
These lectures are accompanied by notes referring to a lecture delivered on 27 September 2017 in Roscoff during the "2017 Evry Schatzman School", edited in "Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics" EDP Sciences Proceedings, Imaging at High Angular Resolution of Stellar Surfaces and Close Environment, 2019, p.55-p.103.
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See the following link for teaching material (lectures notes, power-point presentations and videos) on recent lectures: