Silvia Viola Kusminskiy is group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen and she obtained her PhD in Physics from the Boston University for her studies on quantum liquids in correlated systems. Her work focuses on theoretical condensed matter, quantum optics, optomechanics and optomagnonics as well as graphene physics and low dimensional systems.

Electromagnetism - Atomic Origins of Magnetism - Magnetism in Solids - Interlude: Problem Set - Spin Waves and Magnons - Magneto-Optical Effects - Modern Topics: Cavity Optomagnonics.