Professor John Barker Lectures 1970-2010

John Barker: Teaching and Public Lectures


Undergraduate courses taught at the University of Glasgow 1985-2008

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves III 20L +Lab

Physical and Optoelectronics IV 20L + Lab

Transmission lines and Waveguide Theory III 20L +Lab

Communications Theory IV 20L

Semiconductor Theory and Devices IV 20L

Artificial Intelligence IV 20L+PROLOG Lab

Engineering Mathematics III: Probability and Statistics III 20L

VLSI Design IV 20L + Design Lab

Image and Data Processing IV 20L + Computer Lab

Engineering Mathematics II 20L + Computer Lab

Postgraduate courses taught at the University of Glasgow 1985-2008

Introduction to Nanoelectronics Theory

Digital Signal Processing II

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Transport Theory

Non-equilibrium Green Function Theory

Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

System on a chip: architectures-an overview (at the Institute for System Level Integration)

Undergraduate courses taught at the University of Warwick (Physics) 1970-1985

Mechanics (year 1)

Concepts of Theoretical Physics (years 2/3)

Celestial Mechanics (year 3)

Hamiltonian Physics (year 2)

Advanced Classical Mechanics (year 2)

Advanced Mathematical Techniques (year 3)

Hot Electron Physics (year 3)

Philosophical Foundations of Quantum Theory (year 3)

Philosophical Foundations of Statistical Physics (year 3)

Variaional methods in Physics (year 2)

Information Thery and Noise (year 2)

VLSI Microelectronics (year 3)

Relativistic Cosmology (year 3)

Postgraduate courses taught at the University of Warwick (Physics) 1970-1985

Transport theory 40L

Quantum transport theory 20L

Green functions for solid state physics 25l

Disordered systems 20L

Space-time models in cosmology 20L

Advanced topics in solid state physics 25L

Computational physics 20L

Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Postgraduate Courses taught at North Texas University (Physics) 1978.

Photexcited Hot Electrons 20 L

Advanced topics in solid state theory 20 L

Courses taught at Colorado State University 1978-83.

Undergraduate

Electromagnetic field theory 25 L

Postgraduate

Solid State Theory 20 L

Quantum Transport Theory 20 L

Other Courses

Short courses 4 - 6 lectures were given at Modena University, Paris University VII, Niels Bohr Institute, IBM T J Watson Centre, New York, Bell Labs Murray Hill.

A number of extra mural courses were given including:

1.Introduction to the natural philosophy of space,time and matter (20L) 1972

2.Einstein:the first 100 years (20L) 1979

3.Hitch-Hikers guide to the silicon chip (20L) 1980(repeated twice), 1981, 1982

4.Computers and robots: an introduction to artificial intelligence (20L) 1983

5.Institute of Physics "Frontiers" programme (1976-82)

External Lectures (1970-2010)

Lectures given to 6th Form Conferences, Schools, Astronomical Societies, Philosophical Societies in the UK

Causality and Determinism

Modern Astronomy

Philosophical Basis of Modern Physics

The Cultural Impact of Physics

Cosmological Problems

Implications of Spaceflight

Organisation of British Science

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Comprehensive Education: a history

Community Development

Stellar Evolution

Dynamical Theories of Saturn's Rings

The Moons of Jupiter and Saturn

High Temperature Superconductivity

Supercomputing in the eighties

Asteroid impacts and their detection

Post Cambrian Intelligence

Exploring Mars from Gilmorehill

Special Lectures

1.Guest Lecturer: North Texas University (1978) Public Lecture: Community Education in Great Britain

2.Einstein Symposium (1979) : Einstein ,Quanta and Reality Einstein in the Seventies

3.Institute of Physics Lectures: Pseudoscience; Sub-Micron Electronics

4.Warwick Teachers Conference(1980): Physics of sub-micron semiconductor devices

5.British Association for he Advancement of Science(1980): the sub-micron revolution

6.British Science Fiction Writers Association (1980): Microscience.

7.Association for Science Education (1980): Sub-micron science:the new world of the quantum chip

8. Information Technology Year Programme: lectures in Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Solihull on Information Science and Engineering (1982)

9.Guest lecturer at the opening of the Microtechnology in Schools meeting in Solihull, (1982)

10. Institute of Data Management, (1984), Computing with Cellular Automata.

11.British Computer Society (1985): Optical Computing

12. Royal Society (London), lectures on Molecular Electronics (1990).

13. Distinguished Science Lecturer, Yale University: 3 public lectures:The limit of information technology; Molecular scale logic with fluids; Trajectory representations of single electronics. (1992)

14. Edinburgh Science Festival (1993) Lecture on "Nanoelectronics: engineering with single electrons and molecules".

15. The Royal Society (London) "Nanoscale Electronics" Press Briefings in Modern Science, London (1993)

16.Royal Society of Chemistry, Review Lecture in Chemistry, St Andrews University,"Prospects for molecular scale electronics" (1994)

17.Association for Science Education Keynote Lecture: Association for Science Education Annual Conference, "The Future of Electronics", March (1998).

18. Royal Society of Chemistry Invited Speaker at Aberdeen University: "Artificial Olfaction." (1998).

19. Edinburgh Science Festival Michaelson Memorial Lecture in Computer Science: "The Age of the Nanocomputer" (1998)

20. IEE sponsored lectures: Engineering for diversity(2001)

21. Glasgow Science Festival: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - The Smile on the Face of the Quantum.