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There will be no Final Exam for this course.
The course meets on Tuesday, Thursday, from 11:30-12:50 pm in Crow 206. First class is on Tuesday, August 26. Additional meeting time is scheduled to analyze and discuss homework, allow for student presentations, and the possibility of make-up classes, if needed. Time for this meeting will be on Fridays from 11-11:50 in Compton 245 starting August 29. If this time presents a scheduling problem, we can arrange a different time.
| Instructor: | Willem Dickhoff Office: Compton 371; Email: wimd@wustl.edu Office hours: F 10:00-11:00 and appointment |
| Course Textbook: | Many-body
theory exposed! (2nd edition) by Dickhoff and Van Neck,
ISBN 9812813802 (softcover; note there is also a hardcover that is
some times offered at a reduced price). A 3rd edition is in press
with an additional 130 pages covering recent progress. Publication
date probably during the Fall semester. We will cover a substantial fraction of the material in the book. Additional reading, references, and homework problems can be found there as well. |
| Other useful books: | Additional books that you should consult once in a while: Mattuck Fetter and Walecka Abrikosov, Gorkov, and Dzyaloshinski Negele and Orland Blaizot and Ripka Migdal Mahan Kadanoff and Baym Schrieffer Thouless Pitaevskii and Stringari Nozieres Nozieres and Pines Koltun and Eisenberg Kraeft et al. Lindgren and Morrison Brown Bruus and Flensberg Altland and Simons Cohen-Tannoudji and Guery-Odelin Leggett Stefanucci and van Leeuwen |
The course is defined by the material discussed in the lectures and studied in the reading material. A tentative schedule is given below. It includes the material to be read for the corresponding meeting, the material covered, and the assigned homework. Much of the material covered in the first 5 chapters was discussed in Phys 524 last Spring. We will therefore only very briefly review the topics. Arrangements can be made to prepare for the course by going over the topics covered in 524 if necessary.
COURSE GRADE:
- Three meetings per week in Crow 206 (TTh) and Compton 245 (F)
- Reading for each class. Homework assigned for most classes, at least initially. Appropriate review of reading material during class mostly in lecture format (with hopefully discussion and lots of questions). Homework can be discussed during class time and is reviewed when necessary.
- Computer assignments as longer projects.
- No written exams!
- A ~30-minute presentation on material of a closely related topic must be chosen. Attendance at all talks by other students is required. The talk should include a motivation, a discussion of the method of solution and experimental data (where appropriate), a discussion of the results, and a summary plus conclusions of the presented material. The use of pdf/keynote/powerpoint is recommended
| Homework: | Students are encouraged to form study groups and discuss the homework with each other, but each student must be able to present his or her own solutions. You will be asked to discuss solution strategies of homework problems when appropriate. |
| Computer assignments: | |
| Slides: Neutron_levels Bomo_208Pb_levels |