Section: Written material with audiocomments | Computational Statistical Mechanics

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During this period I will post hand-written lectures and accompanying audio lectures

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- Select activity Lesson 1:Microcanonical ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 1: Canonical Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 1: Isobaric-isothermal ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 2: Grandcanonical ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 2: Diatomic molecules (I)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 3: Virial Pressure
  
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- Select activity Lesson 3: Distribution functions (I)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 3: Distribution functions (II)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 4: Numerical Distributions
  
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- Select activity Lesson 4: Gaussian Random Numbers
  
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- Select activity Lesson 4: Errors and Bias
  
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- Select activity Lesson 4: Estimation of the variance
  
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- Select activity Lesson 5: Error Propagation Formula
  
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- Select activity Lesson 5: Errors and Bias on Ratios
  
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- Select activity Lesson 6: The Jackknife Method (with corrections)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 6: The Binning Method
  
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- Select activity Lesson 6: Introduction to dynamic MC methods
  
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- Select activity Introduction to dynamic Monte Carlo Methods Audio
  
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- Select activity Lesson 7: Markov chains
  
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- Select activity Lesson 7: Dynamic Monte Carlo
  
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- Select activity Lesson 7: The Metropolis Algorithm
  
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- Select activity Lesson 8: Metropolis. Examples (I)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 8: Metropolis. Examples (II)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 8: Computation of the bias
  
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- Select activity Lesson 8: Supplementary material on the bias
  
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- Select activity Lesson 9: Errors for Correlated Data
  
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- Select activity Lesson 9: Supplementary Material on the Autocorrelation Function
  
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- Select activity Lesson 9: Autocorrelation time
  
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- Select activity Lesson 9: The Blocking Method
  
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- Select activity Homework 1: an example of a report
  
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- Select activity Lesson10: Improved Blocking Method
  
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- Select activity Lesson10: Metropolis in the Canonical Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 10: Metropolis in the Isobaric Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 11: Chemical Potential in the Canonical Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 11: Metropolis in the GrandCanonical Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 11: Heat Bath Algorithm
  
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- Select activity Lesson 12: Truncations
  
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- Select activity Lesson 12: Boundary Conditions
  
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- Select activity Lesson 12: Reduced Units
  
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- Select activity Lesson 13: Computation of the pair distribution function
  
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- Select activity Lesson 13: Fluctuation Relations
  
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- Select activity Lesson 13: Energy Distribution
  
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- Select activity Lesson 14: Reweighting Data
  
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- Select activity Lesson 14: Weighted Average
  
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- Select activity Lesson 15: The Multihistogram Method
  
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- Select activity Lesson 15: Umbrella Sampling
  
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- Select activity Lesson 16: Optimizing the Umbrella Distribution
  
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- Select activity Lesson 16: Simulated Tempering
  
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- Select activity Lesson 17: Parallel Tempering
  
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- Select activity Lesson 17: Molecular Dynamics
  
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- Select activity Lesson 18: Verlet algorithm
  
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- Select activity Verlet Algorithm Audio 1
  
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- Select activity Lesson 18: TIme reversal
  
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- Select activity Lesson 18: Momentum conservation
  
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- Select activity Momentum Conservation Audio
  
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- Select activity Received Homeworks 2: CHECK!
  
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- Select activity Homework 1: Revisions.
  
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- Select activity Lesson 19: Conservation of Phase Space Volume
  
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- Select activity Lesson 19: Harmonic Oscillator
  
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- Select activity Lesson 19: Liouvillian
  
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- Select activity Lesson 20: Verlet again (I)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 20: Verlet again (II)
  
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- Select activity Verlet again (II) Audio 1
  
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- Select activity Lesson 20: Leap-Frog Algorithm
  
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- Select activity Homework 3: Text
  
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- Select activity Homework 3: Comments Audio
  
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- Select activity Homework 1: Final results
  
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- Select activity Homework 2: FIrst results
  
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- Select activity Lesson 21: General results on Exponentials
  
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- Select activity General results on Exponentials Audio
  
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- Select activity Lesson 21: Verlet conserved Hamiltonian
  
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- Select activity Lesson 21: Verlet Hamiltonian Examples
  
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- Select activity Verlet Hamiltonian Examples Audio
  
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- Select activity Lesson 21: Verlet again (III)
  
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- Select activity Lesson 22: Multiple time-step algorithms
  
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- Select activity Lesson 22: Dynamics with Constraints
  
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- Select activity Lesson 22: Hybrid MC Algorithms
  
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- Select activity Lezione 22: Gaussian Noise
  
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- Select activity Lesson 23: A new derivation of the Verlet algorithm
  
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- Select activity Lezione 23: An example of a stochastic equation
  
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- Select activity Lesson 23: Harmonic Oscillator
  
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- Select activity Harmonic Oscillator Audio 1
  
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- Select activity Harmonic Oscillator Audio 2
  
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- Select activity Lesson 24: General results on the noise
  
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- Select activity General results on the noise Audio 1
  
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- Select activity General results on the noise Audio 2
  
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- Select activity Lesson 24: Langevin Equation
  
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- Select activity Lesson 25: Nose'-Hoover Ensemble
  
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- Select activity Lesson 25: Nose'-Hoover dynamics
  
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- Select activity Exam program
  
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- Select activity Homework 3: results
  
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- Select activity Homework 2: revisions
  
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- Select activity Homework results: summary (06/18/2020)
  
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