| DATE | Reading | Topic, keywords |
| Jan. 31 | LMB 129-42 | Correlation functions, structure factors |
| Feb. 2 | GT § 8; PB § 4.2 | Approximations, virial coefficients |
| Feb. 7 | PB § 4.4.1,2, CL 141-2 | Liquid-vapor interface, functional derivatives, capillary waves |
| Feb. 9 | PB, § 4.4.2, LMB 102-6, LMB §4.2,4.3 [4.1], PB parts of §3 | Mean field, free energy expansion |
| Feb. 14 | Critical exponents in mean field, more on Landau theory | |
| Feb. 16 | Als-Nielsen&BirgeneauAJP; | Ginzburg criterion, survey of models |
| Feb. 21 | Schick review (PP*) | Ginzburg-Landau H, 2D superlattices |
| Feb. 23 | Ising model, scaling, and spin blocks | |
| Feb. 28 | G §9.1 | Renormalization group1, real space |
| Mar. 2 | LMB §3.1.4,§4.1.2, Y chap5 | Finite-size scaling; transfer matrices for Ising model |
| Mar. 7 | Y; PB§6.1, K§13.1-4, C§5.6 | Transfer matrices;RG2: decimation; Submit report topics |
| Mar. 9 | PB§6.1-2, G §9.2-4 | RG3: flows, linearization,... |
| Mar. 14 | March APS Meeting, Balto. | no class |
| M16->17 | PB§6.3-4, G §9.6 | RG4: real space |
| Mar. 21 | Spring | |
| Mar. 23 | Break | |
| Mar. 28 | Online resources, PB§7.1 | Numerical methods: Molecular Dynamics |
| Mar. 30 | LMB§7,online resources, PB§7.2 | Monte Carlo |
| Apr. 4 | " | Cluster algorithms, KMC, QMC |
| Apr. 6 | Begin non-equilibrium | |
| Apr. 11 | Pathria, Gomer, LMB§9.1.1 | Brownian motion, Kubo, diffusion (D*,D), Nernst |
| Apr. 13 | LMB§9.4,9.5 | Langevin, Fokker-Planck |
| Apr. 18 | Fokker-Planck & beyond | |
| Apr. 20 | Reviews, CL§8.6(1-3),8.7 | More "beyond", dynamic RG, nucleation&growth |
| Apr. 25 | Spinodal decomposition, Jarzynski rel'ns; XY-model, Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions | |
| Apr. 27 | KT, crystal surfaces & roughening | |
| May 2 | Report | |
| May 4 | Reports | |
| May 9 | Reports | |
| May 11 | Reports |
*PP: see password-protected Solutions page
LMB: class text, Le Bellac, Mortessagne, Batrouni
PB: Plischke and Bergersen, 2nd edition
CL: Chaikin and Lubensky
GT: Gould and Tobochnik
G: Goldenfeld
Y: Yeomans
K: Kadanoff
C: Chandler