| Date | Lectures | Assignments | Notes | |
| 03/30 | Review of hydrogenic atoms.(notes) | |||
| 04/01 | Interaction of an atom with EM wave.(notes) | HW 1 (solutions) | ||
| 04/03 | Absorption and emission. (notes) | <WS 1 | ||
| 04/06 | Stimulated and spontaneous emission.(notes) | WS 2 | ||
| 04/08 | no class: will be scheduling a make-up | |||
| 04/10 | Spontaneous emission in the electric dipole approximation. (see notes for 04/03 and 04/06) | HW 2(solutions) | WS 3 | For Problem 1 of HW 2 |
| 04/13 | Selection rules.(notes) | |||
| 04/15 | Line shapes and widths. (notes) | HW 3(solutions) | WS 4 | Photon orbital ang. mom. for electric quadrupole transitions |
| 04/17 | Two-electron atoms.(notes) | WS 5 | ||