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Lectures and Laboratory Schedule

 

 
Spring 2009 Lectures Topics Laboratory
April 1 Lecture 1 Feynman Path Integral I.  
April 3 Lecture 2 Feynman Path Integral II.  
April 8 Lecture 3 Feynman Path Integral III. Lab 1: Assignment I on Path Integral
April 10 Lecture 4 Free particle, oscillator, Schrodinger equation I  
April 15 Lecture 5 Free particle, oscillator, Schrodinger equation II Lab 2: Harmonic Oscillator
April 17 Lecture 6 Free particle, oscillator, Schrodinger equation III  
April 29 Lecture 7 Assignment I demo in Fortran code Lab 3: Assignment I tools
May1 Lecture 8 Schrodinger equation and propagator trace  
May 6 Lecture 9 Path integral and Stat Phys Lab 4: Monte Carlo Method I
May 8 Lecture 10 Monte Carlo Method with Importance Sampling  
May 13 Lecture 11 Monte Carlo Method with Importance Sampling II Lab 5: Monte Carlo Method II
May 15 Lecture 12 Quantum Monte Carlo and harmonic oscillator I  
May 20 Lecture 13 Quantum Monte Carlo and harmonic oscillator II Lab 6: Final projects
May 22 Lecture 14 Discussion of topics for Final projects  
May 27 no lecture Memorial day  
May 29 Lecture 15 Final projects  
June 3 Lecture 16 Midterm presentations: Final project proposals Lab 7: Final projects
June 5 Lecture 17 Course review and Final projects  
June 14 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Final project presentations