This course is designed to give students in Physics, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering a guide to the current status of light scattering research activities in science and engineering applications. Topics include: scattering cross sections, Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman Scattering, instrumentation, Raman spectroscopy and molecular structure, Raman scattering from phonons, plasmons and magnons.
Topical prerequisites: quantum mechanics of time dependent perturbation theory, statistical physics of fluctuations, correlation functions and phase transitions, classical electrodynamics of radiation.