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
-------------------------
Spring Break
Something to read
Midterm Presentation on Navier Stokes by Ari Persae
Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics - Jaynes
Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics - Tsallis
-------------------------
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