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Typical configuration of the Ising model close to the critical point

Le cours sera en français cette année 2018-2019 !

Teaching team and schedule
- Guillame Roux: lectures on Fridays 9am-12am
- Christophe Texier: tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4:30pm

Syllabus
- Mean-field description of the ferromagnetic Ising model
- Landau's phenomenology and classification
- Inhomogeneous systems: Ginzburg-Landau
- Fluctuations
- Scale invariance and universality
- Dynamics of phase transitions

Lectures notes and tutorials (you will have a booklet)
- Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff (in French)
- Tutorials (in English)

Evaluation
- continuous assessment: 4 little exercices (finishing last questions) during the tutorials
- final exam : 3 hours, written exam
- final grade = (2*FE + CA)/3

2018-2019 Schedule (C=cours, T=TD, CC=contrôle continu)
- 30/11 : C + T
- 07/12 : C + T
- 14/12 : C + T
- 21/12 : C + T (CC)
- Xmas break
- 25/01 : C + T
- 01/02 : C + T (CC)
- 08/02 : C + T
- 15/02 : C + T (CC)
- 22/02 : C + T
- 01/03 : T + T (CC)
- Winter break
- 16/03 : Exams

Annals (most are actually in the tutorials), in French
- 2013 : liquid crystals (done in tutorials)
- 2014 : critical temperature of finite-size system, polymers (done in tutorials)
- 2015 : exam - correction for front propagation (van der waals done in tutorials)
- 2016 : Bose-Einstein condensates exam - correction
- 2017 : Coupled order parameters - Cahn-Hilliard equation exam - correction
- 2018 : Scaling in magnetic systems - Phi4 soliton and Bogomolny bounds exam - correction

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 ** final grade = (2*FE + CA)/3
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+* '''2018-2019 Schedule''' (''C''=cours, '''T'''=TD, CC=contrôle continu)
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-** 08/12 : ''L'' + '''T'''
+** 07/12 : ''C'' + '''T'''
-** 15/12 : ''L'' + ''L''
+** 14/12 : ''C'' + '''T'''
-** 22/12 : '''T''' (CA)
+** 21/12 : ''C'' + '''T''' (CC)
 ** Xmas break
-** 26/01 : ''L'' + '''T'''
+** 25/01 : ''C'' + '''T'''
-** 02/02 : ''L'' + '''T''' (CA)
+** 01/02 : ''C'' + '''T''' (CC)
-** 09/02 : ''L'' + '''T'''
+** 08/02 : ''C'' + '''T'''
-** 16/02 : ''L'' + '''T''' (CA)
+** 15/02 : ''C'' + '''T''' (CC)
-** 23/02 : ''L'' + '''T'''
+** 22/02 : ''C'' + '''T'''
+** 01/03 : '''T''' + '''T''' (CC)
 ** Winter break
-** 09/03 : '''T''' + '''T''' (CA)
 ** 16/03 : Exams