Graduate course in Statistical Mechanics at UMass Boston 18/19

- Course UMass - syllabus download here - excel file

UMass email "Francesco dot Caravelli at umb dot edu" is active.

Office Hours - Tuesday 2-4 pm

Spectral Methods in Complex Systems Notes

DAS ANFANGANSANTZ

Jan 28th-30th - 4h Lecture 1 First week

Feb 4th - 2h Lecture 2 Second Week

Feb 6th - 2h Lecture 3 ---------------

Feb 11th - 2h Lecture 4 Third Week

Feb 13th - 2h Lecture 5 --------------- There is a Matlab code and what it produces

Feb 18th - President's day

Feb 20th - 2h Lecture 6 Fourth Week

Feb 25th - 27th - No class

Mar 3rd - Uni closed

Mar 5th - Midterm

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Spring Break

Something to read

Midterm Presentation on Navier Stokes by Ari Persae

Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics - Jaynes

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - Tsallis

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From here we start to do 2.5h lessons

Mar 18th - 2.5h Lecture 7

Mar 20th - 2.5h Lecture 8

Mar 25th - 2.5h Lecture 9

Mar 27th - 2.5h Lecture 10

Apr 1st - 2.5h Lecture 11

Apr 3rd - 2.5h Lecture 12

Apr 8th - 2.5h Lecture 13

Apr 10th - 2.5h Lecture 14

Apr 15th - 2.5h Mass Holidays

Apr 17th - 2.5h Lecture 15

Apr 22nd - 2.5h Lecture 16

Apr 24th - 2.5h Lecture 17 - Lab class: Monte Carlo - Workspace available here

Apr 29th - 2.5h Lecture 18 - Guest Lecture by Nicolo Defenu (Uni Heidelberg)

May 1st - 2.5h Lecture 19 - Last Lecture

Presentation Week: May 13th-16th

DAS ENDEANSATZ

Exercises

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Lecture 9

Lecture 10

Lecture 11

Lecture 12

Lecture 13 Solutions next week

Midterm - Results

Course Materials

Mathematica codes - Joule Experiment 1 - Joule Experiment 2 - Carnot Cycle - Osmotic pressure

Matlab codes - Convergence of Markov chains and entropy production

Fokker-Planck equation and Brownian motion - Mathematica Code

Reading Materials

Statistical Physics and Inference in Machine Learning - Notes by Richard Turner

Bose-Einstein condensates, PhysicsWorld 95

Exchange Interactions, Paper by Dirac 1929

Ising models and Real Materials, Wolf (2000)

Landau Theory, Original (translated) paper by Landau, 1937