Overview of first week January 20-24, 2025
- Introduction to the course and overview of topics to be covered
- Introduction to Variational Monte Carlo methods, Metropolis Algorithm, statistics and Markov Chain theory
- C++ and python programming with discussion of software examples
- Test yourself, is my background ok for this course? (to be added)
- Asynchronuous vidoes
- Lecture notes and reading assignments
- Additional (often recommended) background material from the two textbooks listed below.