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It takes place in the Physics Department of ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, room GH206 (F. Chevy's office - "directeur des études"). It is close to Werner Krauth's office, where the offices of the administration of the Physics Department are. To find the room, take the main entrance and go to 1st floor. Follow the indications (you have to find a small stair at the end of the main corridor of 1st floor). Please check that you can find the room before your actual time of passage.

This is the interactive website of the Master course in Computational Statistical Physics at [|Ecole normale supérieure]. This course is part of the [|Master ICFP (International Center for fundamental physics)]



A general course in computational physics, with applications in statistical physics, physics of liquids, atomic and condensed-matter physics. =Where does this course take place= Because of the construction work going on at ENS, the 2013/14 course takes place at the University of Orsay: Moyen Amphi LPS Université d'Orsay [|Directions for going to LPS Orsay] This is just a 35 minute RER ride (to the "[|Le Guichet station]")+ 7 minute workout (uphill running) from central Paris.

=Team= [|Werner KRAUTH], ( [|Département de physique de l'ENS] ) Class sessions and homework discussions on Fridays 15:45 - 17:30, from 13-Sep-2013 - 20-Dec-2013
 * Lectures on Fridays 14:00 - 15:30, from 13-Sep-2013 - 20-Dec-2013
 * [|Alberto ROSSO] ( [|LPTMS Orsay] & [|Laboratoire de physique théorique, ENS] ),
 * [|Michael KOEPF] ( [|Département de physique de l'ENS] ), and
 * [|Vivien LECOMTE] ( [|Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires Univ. Paris VII] ),

Timetable
2013 ||= Integration and Sampling: From the Gaussian integral to Walker's method ||= Class session 04: Errors and fluctuations Complement: distribution of empirical averages and Central Limit Theorem ||= Homework 04: Error evaluation for a Markov chain || 2013 ||= Spin systems: Enumerations, Metropolis, Cluster algorithms ||= Class session 08: Heat-bath algorithm for the Ising model ||=  Homework 08: Local and cluster algorithms for the Ising model || 2013 ||= Ising Model: Dynamic Monte Carlo, Faster than the clock, BLK algorithm ||= Class session 09: Random sequential deposition ||= Homework 09: Dynamic Monte Carlo algorithms || 2013 ||= No Lecture ||= No Class session ||= No Homework || 2013 ||= Lattice Fermions: Hirsch decoupling, BSS algorithm ||= Class session 11: Correlated noise ||= No Homework ||
 * ~ Dates ||~ Lectures ||~ Class sessions ||~ Homeworks ||
 * < Friday 13 Sep 2013 ||= Introduction to Monte Carlo ||= Class session 01: Coupling of Markov chains - Perfect sampling ||= Homework 01: Hopping models, Transfer matrices, Jamming ||
 * < Friday 20 Sep 2013 ||= Balance, Lifting, Metropolis-Hastings ||= Class session 02: One-dimensional Hard Spheres ||= Homework 02: The Fermi - Pasta - Ulam - Tsingou chain ||
 * < Friday 27 Sep 2013 ||= Hard Spheres: Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo ||= Class session 03: Two-dimensional hard spheres: Sinai's billiard ||= Homework 03: Hard disks and the liquid-solid transition in two dimensions  ||
 * < Friday 04 Oct
 * Friday 11 Oct 2013 ||= No Lecture - Study week ||= No Class session- Study week ||= No Homework - Study week ||
 * Friday 18 Oct 2013 ||= Quantum Mechanics: From the density matrix to the Path Integral ||= Class session 05: the evolution operator ||= Homework 05: the Morse potential ||
 * Friday 25 Oct 2013 ||= Quantum Mechanics: Lévy construction ||= Class session 06: method of images ||= Homework 06: error in quantum Monte-Carlo simulations ||
 * < Friday 01 Nov 2013 ||= No Lecture - Holiday ||= No Class session - Holiday ||= No Homework - Holiday ||
 * Friday 08 Nov 2013 ||= Quantum Mechanics: Many particles, Bosons ||= Class session 07: Thermodynamics of harmonic bosons ||= Homework 07: QMC for harmonic bosons ||
 * Friday 15 Nov
 * Friday 22 Nov
 * Friday 29 Nov
 * Friday 06 Dec 2013 ||= Quantum Lattice Hamiltonians - Hubbard model ||= Class session 10: Simulated annealing for disks on the sphere ||= No Homework ||
 * < Friday 13 Dec
 * Friday 20 Dec 2013 ||= Special Lecture in ENS, in Conf IV (E224). ||=  ||= No Homework ||

=Organization=

Lectures
Lectures on Fridays 14:00 - 15:30, from 13-Sep-2013 through 20-Dec-2013 (see above schedule for free weeks). The lectures take place in the Moyen Amphi, Building 510, University Paris-Sud.

Homework discussions
Homework discussions on Fridays 15:45-16:15 from 13-Sep-2013 through 13-Dec-2013 (see above schedule for free weeks). The discussions take place in the Moyen Amphi, Building 510, University Paris-Sud.

Class sessions
Class sessions on Fridays 16:30 - 18:00, from 13-Sep-2013 - 20-Dec-2013. The class sessions take place in the Moyen Amphi and the Petit Amphi, Building 510, University Paris-Sud.

Homeworks
Homework will be given out on Fridays, from 13 Sep 2013 through 29 Nov 2013. Homework is due on the following Friday at 13h59 First homework due on 20 Sep 2013 13:59, last homework due on 13 Dec 2013 13:59

Exams
Oral exams: from 16 - 19 December 2013 Grades: 50% homework, 50% oral exam. No written examination, but some writing requirements in homework.

Languages
Working language for this course is English. [|This is in keeping with ENS-ICFP policy]. For programming, we use Python (see side menu).

Remarks, Questions
We encourage question and comments about all the material. Please post questions and comments on this wiki. All students registered for the course should be registered for the wiki also.

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