Undergraduate Magnetic Resonance
NMR and MRI lecture course read to third year undergraduate chemists by Ilya Kuprov and Marcel Utz at the University of Southampton and at Weizmann Institute.
(handout, video) – Lecture 01 – Introduction
(handout, video) – Lecture 02 – Instrumentation
(handout, video) – Lecture 03 – Bloch equations
(handout, video) – Lecture 04 – Signals and spectra
(handout, video) – Lecture 05 – Basics of MRI
(handout, video) – Lecture 06 – Spin echoes and relaxation
(handout, video) – Lecture 07 – Angular momentum
(handout, video) – Lecture 08 – Spin Hamiltonians
(handout, video) – Lecture 09 – Liquid state NMR Hamiltonians
(handout, video) – Lecture 10 – Deeper into MRI
(handout, video) – Lecture 11 – Time domain quantum mechanics, part 1
(handout, video) – Lecture 12 – Time domain quantum mechanics, part 2
(handout, video) – Lecture 13 – Spin relaxation theory
(handout, video) – Lecture 14 – Common relaxation mechanisms
(handout, video) – Lecture 15 – Product operator formalism
(handout, video) – Lecture 16 – Magnetisation transfer
(handout, video) – Lecture 17 – NMR in two and more dimensions
(handout, video) – Lecture 18 – Basic simulation methods
(handout, video) – Lecture 19 – Cross-relaxation and NOE
(handout, video) – Lecture 20 – Quantum technologies
(handout, video) – Lecture 21 – Biomolecular NMR
Spin Dynamics
A graduate level lecture course for physicists and chemists working professionally in the area of magnetic resonance spectroscopy or using advanced NMR and EPR techniques as a part of their research. Students who wish to make distance examination arrangements (e.g. for the course to count towards their degree at their home institution) should contact Ilya Kuprov with the request.
Module I – Elementary topics (Ilya Kuprov, Giuseppe Pileio)
Lecture 01 (handout, video) – Fourier spectroscopy
Lecture 02 (handout, video) – Magnetic resonance instruments
Lecture 03 (handout, video a, video b) – Digital signal processing
Lecture 04 (handout, video) – Quantum theory of angular momentum
Lecture 05 (handout, video) – Quantum mechanical theory of spin
Lecture 06 (handout, video) – Spin interaction Hamiltonians, part I
Lecture 07 (handout, video) – Spin interaction Hamiltonians, part II
Lecture 08 (handout, video) – Formal theory of rotations
Lecture 09 (handout, video) – Wavefunction formalism
Lecture 10 (handout, video) – Density operator formalism
Lecture 11 (handout, video) – Product operator formalism
Lecture 12 (handout, video) – Rotating frame approximation
Module II – Algebra and programming (Ilya Kuprov)
Lecture 01 (handout, video) – Vector and matrix spaces
Lecture 02 (handout, video) – Groups and algebras
Lecture 03 (handout, video) – Formal theory of rotations
Lecture 04 (handout, video) – Overview of SU(n) groups
Lecture 05 (handout, video) – Simulation design and coding, part I
Lecture 06 (handout, video) – Simulation design and coding, part II
Lecture 07 (handout, video) – Simulation design and coding, part III
Lecture 08 (handout, video) – Simulation design and coding, part IV
Lecture 09 (handout, video) – Introduction into large-scale simulations
Lecture 10 (handout, video) – What is Spinach and what does it do
Lecture 11 (handout, video) – Pulse sequence modelling
Module IV – Solid state NMR (Malcolm Levitt, Marina Carravetta, Phil Williamson, Ilya Kuprov)
Lecture 01 (handout, video) – Spin interactions
Lecture 02 (handout, video) – Spherical tensors
Lecture 03 (handout, video) – Spherical tensors
Lecture 04 (handout, video) – Rotating frame approximation
Lecture 05 (handout, video) – Average Hamiltonian theory
Lecture 06 (handout, video) – Polarisation transfer and recoupling
Lecture 07 (handout, video) – Nuclear quadrupolar interaction
Lecture 08 (handout, video) – NMR of quadrupolar solids
Lecture 09 (handout, video) – Simulation of solid state DNP experiments
Lecture 10 (handout, video) – Anisotropic interactions in solid state NMR
Lecture 11 (handout, video) – Cross-polarisation and dipolar recoupling
Lecture 12 (handout, video) – Protein structure determination in solids
Quantum Chemistry
IK's graduate level course for chemists, physicists, and biologists who wish to acquire practical skills of performing ab initio, DFT, and molecular dynamics simulations of realistic systems using modern software and supercomputers. The lectures provide basic theoretical background and focus on practical recipes for the calculation of commonly encountered physical and chemical properties.
Mathematical Methods in Chemistry
The mathematics course that IK is teaching at the University of Southampton. The course is designed to give first year chemists all the background necessary for the subsequent courses in kinetics, thermodynamics, and molecular quantum mechanics. Basic statistics is covered, and an introduction is given into numerical methods and machine algebra systems.