Weekly plans and update for week 17, April 26-30

Dear All,
we hope you are doing find in these odd times. Unfortunately it seems that we may most likely end this semester as well with an online version of the course.  Too bad. 
However, we keep our group discussion structure throughout the semester. 
This coming Thursday is our second last regular session. Our final session is Thursday May 6, next week.  After, we can always organize own discussion meetings, but our last regular session is May 6 from 1415 to 19.
We begin this Thursday at 1415 with our groups:
Group 1 and breakout room 1: Time-dependent Hartree-Fock theory. ?yvind will continue discussing the theory during the first 1-2 hours, thereafter we work on the project.
Group 2 and breakout room2: Machine Learning and many-body Physics: Morten will discuss the link between Boltzmann-Machines and Neural Networks the first 1-2 hours. For this part, Bendik Samseth's master of science thesis is an excellent read, see https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/72880 (the article by Saito may also be of interest as background, see https://journals.jps.jp/doi/10.7566/JPSJ.87.074002).  Using Neural Networks is not part of the project, but gives a nice link with Boltzmann machines. We will also use the first two hours to discuss the various links between VMC and the trial function ansatz, Boltzmann Machines and Neural Networks. Thereafter we work on the project itself.
Group 3 and breakout room 3: Quantum Machine Learning, here Kristian and Stian will discuss the theory during the first 1-2 hours, thereafter project work.

We keep breakout rooms 4-5 open for those of you working on other variants of project 2.

Best wishes to you all and stay healthy,
Morten and ?yvind