Teaching
Waves, Light and the Response of Matter
The courses below belong to different programmes and are given to students who do not share the same background: an integrated engineering preparatory cycle, a physics bachelor, and the two years of an international photonics master. They share a common thread: waves, light, transport, and the photoexcitation of matter—the same themes that underpin my research. Since 2024, I have also served as Course Director of the international OIVM iPSRS Master’s programme, funded by Erasmus+.
Slides, lecture notes and problem sheets are downloadable from each course page. Some of the material is in French, some in English, as taught.
One equation built four times, from a coaxial cable to the electromagnetic field in vacuum, then what boundary conditions do to its solutions.
15 h lectures · 15 h problem classes · CiTISE, Télécom Saint-Étienne
From an experiment that found nothing to the machines that could not be designed without the theory it forced.
10 h lectures · 15 h problem classes · 6 h lab · L3 Physics, FST
A single interaction term followed through five levels of description, from the Lorentz oscillator to exciton-polaritons in a microcavity.
14 h lectures · 16 h problem classes · M1 Photonics Engineering, OIVM
Three numerical strategies for Maxwell’s equations, each derived to the point where the student can write the code.
16 h lectures · 18 h problem classes · M2 OIVM
“I don’t believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don’t have any ideas and I’m not getting anywhere I can say to myself, at least I’m living; at least I’m doing something; I’m making some contribution. It’s just psychological.”
Richard P. Feynman, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
