CoDaDri
Computational and Data Driven Physics
Modern physics is characterized by an increasing complexity of systems under investigation, in domains as diverse as condensed matter, astrophysics, biophysics, etc. Establishing adequate models to describe these systems and being able to make quantitative predictions from those models is extremely challenging.
Course description
We will first cover many algorithms used in many-body problems and complex systems, with special emphasis on Monte Carlo methods, molecular dynamics, and optimization in complex landscapes.
Second, we will provide statistical inference and machine learning tools to harness the growing availability of experimental data to design accurate models of the underlying, complex, strongly non-homogeneous and interacting systems.
Each theoretical lecture will be followed by a tutorial illustrating the concepts with practical applications
borrowed from various domains of physics. We will focus on methods and algorithms and physics, not
on programming and heavy numerics! You will have to hand in 3 homeworks.
The Team
- Alberto Rosso (Computationa Physics)
- Remy Monasson (Data Driven Physics)
- Simona Cocco & Micel Ferrero (Tutorials)
Where and When
- Lectures on Fridays: 14:00-16:00
- Tutorials on Fridays: 16:00-18:00
- ENS, 29 rue D'Ulm, salle Borel + Djebar