Plans for the week of February 17-21, 2025
- Review from last week with an emphasis on computational aspects in calculating gradients and kinetic energies for various wave functions
- Reminder on Fokker-Planck equation and Langevin equations
- 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 TBA