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 25: 08-10, What is Monte Carlo? Basic statistics. (1-2.3)
  
• Apr 03: 08-10, Random variables, Markov chain Monte Carlo (2.4-2.5). The Ising model (4.1-2).
• Apr 03: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• Apr 05: 08-10, Wolff cluster Monte Carlo (4.3).
• Apr 05: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• Apr 10: 08-10, The exact solution. Behavior at a critical point. (4.4-4.5)
• Apr 12: 08-10, MF theory (4.6). Energy-entropy balance (4.7).
• Apr 12: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• Apr 17: 08-10, Universality, RG theory, and scaling. (4.8)
• Apr 19: 08-10, Finite size scaling. (4.8.4)
• Apr 19: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• Apr 22: 08-10, To organize large scale simulations. (8)
• Apr 24: 08-10, Analytical treatment of the Ising model. (4.9)
• Apr 24: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• Apr 29: 08-10, Scale free behavior. Percolation. (5.1-5.2)
• Apr 29: 10-12, LAB SESSION
• May 03: 08-10, Random walk. Self-organized criticality. (5.3-5.4)
  
• May 06: 08-10, Network science (5.5). Quantum Monte Carlo (1)
• May 06: 10-12, LAB SESSION
  
• May 13: 08-10, Quantum Monte Carlo (2). Jamming as a critical phenomenon
• May 15: 13-15, Nobel prize 2016: The Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
  
  

Examination: May 22, 08-14.

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

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