Plans for the week February 20-24

Dear all, we hope you have had a great start this week. Here follows a short update about the plans for the lectures tomorrow. We will start discussing about the optimization of the variational parameters that define the trial wave function. This will us into the world/jungle of gradient descent method, methods whom many of you are already familiar with from courses like FYS-STK4155. Here we will adapt these methods to the optimization of the ground state energy in order to be able to launch large scale Monte Carlo calculations. The slides for this week are at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics2/doc/pub/week5/html/week5-reveal.html

Several of you have also asked for a possible change of lab time, that is from Thursdays 4pm-7pm.
Depending on available space we could have the labs on
1) Tuesdays 9-12pm or 2pm-5pm
2) Wednesdays 9-12pm or 2pm-5pm.

Feel free to send me an email at mhjensen@uio.uio with your preferred choice. Depending on availability we will try to find a new time.

Else, next week, we will have only lab. Unless we change the lab sessions, we will thus have lab 2pm-7pm on Thursday March 2. Since I am in Norway March 6-10, I would like to use that week for lectures only, plus eventually some demonstrations/lab as well.

In the meantime, all the best
Morten and ?yvind