Tuesday, Thursday 11:00 AM, McCullough 122
Admin Staff: Cyndi Mata, McCullough Building, Room 339
Phone: 723-0223; E-MAIL:
Course content:
Notions
of randomness play a central role in many areas of science. In this
course
we will explore some concepts that are fundamental in a number of disciplines.
Potential
topics include: random numbers,
their generation and application;
disordered
systems, quenching and annealing; percolation and fractal structures;
universality, the renormalization group and limit theorems; path integrals,
partition functions and Wiener measure; random matrices; and optimal
estimation.
This
course will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in
the sciences.
Format:
After
an introduction in the first meeting, each of the instructors will give a
series of lectures on selected topics (see above). At the end of each set there
will be a panel discussion on the topics discussed in
the lectures. Students participation is encouraged.
Students
will have to prepare two papers related to topic discussed in class.
Look
at the instructions.
Suggested Readings and Course Notes:
Use this link to see the suggested reading for the coming week. Notes and Slides of the class presentations can also be found here.