Module 4 of Refresher course conducted by Indian Science Academies
Topics: Time dependent perturbation theory, Sudden, impulsive, harmonic and adiabatic perturbations, Fermi Golden Rule, Canonical quantization, Classical radiation field in Coulomb gauge, Polarization, Quantization of free radiation field in radiation gauge, photons, Bose statistics, Interaction of radiation with atomic electrons, Rate of electric dipole transitions, Mean lifetime, Selection rules.
Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Kerala, May 12-17, 2014
The course will meet at 10:45 am and at 3:00 pm
Some brief lecture notes are here.