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.