Schedule: Spring 1998

Simulations in NT
Thursday January 22    Intro to Molecular Dynamics
Monday January 26Molecular Dynamics: Performance and Science
Thursday January 29 Paulette Clancy: Molecular Dynamics
Monday February 2Intro to Monte Carlo: the Ising Model
Thursday February 5Accelleration Algorithms, Nucleation, Spinodal Decomposition
Monday February 9 Chris Myers: Critical Phenomena, Scaling Analysis, and Python
Thursday February 12Lab Session
Monday February 16Lab Session
Thursday February 19 Lab Session
Monday February 23Lab Session
Thursday February 26Intro to Avalanches
Monday March 2Avalanches, Hysteresis, Noise, and Scaling
Thursday March 5Lab Session
Monday March 9No Class (Sethna Out of Town)
Thursday March 12No Class (Sethna Out of Town)
Monday March 16Spring Break
Thursday March 19Spring Break
Monday March 23Intro to Lattice Gauge Field Theories
Thursday March 26 Peter Lepage: Lattice QCD
Monday March 30Intro to Electronic Structure Calculations
Wednesday April 1 Mike Teter: LDA and Electronic Structure
Monday April 6Intro to Pseudospectral Methods & Turbulence
Thursday April 9 Eberhard Bodenschatz: Spatiotemporal Chaos
Monday April 13Lab Session
Thursday April 16Lab Session
Monday April 20Intro to Quantum Monte Carlo
Thursday April 23 Chester/ Kalos: Quantum Monte Carlo
Monday April 27Intro to Finite Element Methods
Thursday April 30 Tony Ingraffea: Finite Elements and Crack Growth
Monday March 2Intro to Experimental High Energy Physics Simulations
Thursday March 5 Lawrence Gibbons: Simulations for High Energy Physics

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity, now available at Oxford University Press (USA, Europe).