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Lecture and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Spring 2009 Lectures Topics Laboratory
March 28 Lecture 1/2 Feynman Path Integral I-II. Path Integral II (2:00-3:00)
March 30 Lecture 3 Feynman Path Integral III.  
April 4 no lecture no lecture Lab 1: unix and visualization
April 6 TA discussion

Assignment I on Path Integral TA leads discussion

(in lecture time!)

  
April 11 Lecture 4/5 Free particle, oscillator, Schrodinger equation I Lab 2: Harmonic Oscillator
April 13 Lecture 6 Free particle, oscillator, Schrodinger equation II  
April 18 Lecture 7 Assignment I demo in Fortran code Lab 3: Assignment II tools
April 20 Lecture 8 Schrodinger equation and propagator trace  
April 25 Lecture 9 Path integral and Stat Phys Lab 4: Monte Carlo Method I
April 27 Lecture 10 Monte Carlo Method with Importance Sampling  
May 2 Lecture 11 Monte Carlo Method with Importance Sampling II Lab 5: Monte Carlo Method II
May 4 Lecture 12 Quantum Monte Carlo and harmonic oscillator I  
May 9 Lecture 13 Quantum Monte Carlo and harmonic oscillator II Lab 6: Midterm project
May 11 Lecture 14 Discussion of topics for Final projects  
May 16 Lecture 15 Final projects proposals I Lab 7: Final projects I
May 18 Lecture 16 Final projects proposal II  
May 23 Lecture 17 Final project proposals Lab 8: Final projects II
May 30 Memorial day no lecture no lab (Memorial day)
June 1 Lecture 18 Course review and Final projects  
June 10 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Final project presentations