Dr. Constantin Meis, Professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, to speak at ECE-NTUA on Tuesday, September 24th, at 12:00

We are pleased to invite all interested faculty, students, and researchers to a presentation by Dr. Constantin Meis titled "Vector potential, electromagnetic field and wave function." The presentation will take place on Tuesday, September 24th, at 12:00 PM in the ECE School Meeting Room, located in the basement of the new ECE building. The presentation will be delivered in English.

For those unable to attend in person, the presentation will also be available via Webex. You can join the session using the following link:
Webex Link

Abstract: Despite the impressive technological advancements of the past decades, allowing for experiments with single photons, the nature of photons remains one of the great mysteries in contemporary Quantum Electrodynamics. In this talk, Dr. Meis will provide a brief historical overview of the development of the photon concept, analyze its physical properties in light of experimental findings, and present new theoretical results on the quantization of the vector potential, the photon electric field, and the definition of the photon's wave function.

Short Biography:

Constantin Meis is a Professor at the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology and Director of Research at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-Saclay). He also serves as an international expert for the CEA and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Radiation (MDPI), Switzerland.
Dr. Meis holds a Maitrise de Physique (1984) from the University of Paris 7, a Master’s Degree in Atomic Physics & Quantum Optics (1985), and a PhD in Atomic Physics (1988) from Orsay University (Paris-Sud). He earned his Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in 2003 from Marseille University.
Beginning his career as a physicist at CEA Saclay in 1988, Dr. Meis has since led research in theoretical studies on electromagnetic wave propagation in plasmas. In 2001, he became head of the Physics and Materials Unit at the National Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology, where he now holds the title of Director of Research.