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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Spring 2009 Lectures Topics Laboratory
March 30 Lecture 1 Feynman Path Integral I.  
April 1 Lecture 2 Feynman Path Integral II.  
April 6 Lecture 3 Free Particle and Harmonic Oscillator Lab 1: Feynman Path Integral
April 13 Lecture 4 Schrodinger Equation from Path Integral Lab 2: Harmonic Oscillator
April 15 Lecture 5 Path Integral and Statistical Physics  
April 20 Lecture 6 The Monte Carlo Method (Introduction) Lab 3: Monte Carlo Method I
April 22 Lecture 7 Quantum Monte Carlo and Harmonic Oscillator I.  
April 27 Lecture 8 Quantum Monte Carlo and Harmonic Oscillator II. Lab 4: Monte Carlo Method II
April 29 Lecture 9 Quantum Monte Carlo and Harmonic Oscillator III.  
May 4 Lecture 10 Monte Carlo Method with Importance Sampling Lab 5: Assignement II
May 6 Lecture 11 PDE formulation of Fluid Dynamics I.  
May 11 Lecture 12 PDE formulation of Fluid Dynamics II. Lab 6: Navier-Stokes Flows
May 13 Lecture 13 PDE formulation of Fluid Dynamics III.  
May 18 Lecture 14 Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equation Lab 7: Navier-Stokes Solvers
May 20 Lecture 15 Fluid Mechanics and Baseball Physics  
May 27 Memorial Day    
June 1 Lecture 16 Final Project Lab 8: Open Foam
June 3 Lecture 17 Discussion of the Final Project  
June 12 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final project presentations