Department of Physics Schedule for Monte Carlo methods

Note that the lessons always start a quarter past. "08-10" should therefore be read 08:15-10:00.

• Mar 24: 13-15, What is Monte Carlo? Basic statistics. (1-2.3)
• Mar 26: 13-15, Random variables, Markov chain Monte Carlo (2.4-2.5). The Ising model (4.1-2).
  
• Mar 31: 13-15, Wolff cluster Monte Carlo (4.3).
  
• Apr 07: 13-15, The exact solution. Behavior at a critical point. (4.4-4.5)
• Apr 09: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• Apr 14: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• Apr 14: 13-15, MF theory (4.6). Energy-entropy balance (4.7).
• Apr 16: 13-15, Universality, RG theory, and scaling. (4.8)
  
• Apr 21: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• Apr 21: 13-15, Finite size scaling. (4.8.4)
• Apr 23: 13-15, To organize large scale simulations. (8)
  
• Apr 28: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• Apr 28: 13-15, Analytical treatment of the Ising model. (4.9)
  
• May 05: 13-15, Scale free behavior. Percolation. (5.1-5.2)
• May 07: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• May 07: 13-15, Random walk. Self-organized criticality. (5.3-5.4)
  
• May 12: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• May 12: 13-15, Network science (5.5).
  
• May 19: 08-10, Quantum Monte Carlo (1).
• May 21: 13-15, Quantum Monte Carlo (2).
  
• May 26: 13-15, Nobel prize 2016: The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
• May 28: 13-15, Jamming as a critical phenomenon
  
  

Examination: Jun 02, 09-15.

Course home page: http://www.tp.umu.se/MonteCarlo
Contact: e-mail: Peter Olsson,

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