Plans for the week of February 12-16

  • 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
  • Handwritten notes