Plans for the week of February 17-21, 2025

  • Reminder on Fokker-Planck equation and Langevin equations (partly from last week)
  • Programming elements of correlation function
  • Start optimization: Expressions for derivatives as functions of the variational parameters
  • Newton's method, gradient descent, Steepest descent and Conjugate Gradient Descent
  • Video of Lecture
  • Handwritten notes