Teaching

Mechanics II, University of Geneva, 2nd year of Bachelor

Topics: Reminders about Newtonian mechanics, Variational calculus, Lagrangian mechanics, Small oscillations, Rigid bodies and spinning top, Hamiltonian mechanics, Continuum mechanics and elasticity, Fluid mechanics. 

Lecture Notes (Latex):

• French

• English

Advanced Statistical Physics (P817), UMass Amherst graduate course

Lecture Notes (handwritten):

1. Critical Phenomena

2. Ginzburg-Landau theory & Fluctuations

3. The Renormalization Group

4. Perturbative RG

5. KT transition

6. Nonlinear sigma model

7. Disordered systems

8. CFT

Statistics Physics (P602), UMass Amherst graduate course  

Lecture Notes (handwritten):

1. Introduction

2. The fundamentals of statistical mechanics

3. Ideal classical gases

4. Thermodynamics

5. Quantum Statistical Mechanics

6. Ideal Bose and Fermi gases

7. Interacting systems and phase transitions

8. Numerical Methods