Plans for week 5, January 31-February 4

Hi all, we hope this week started the best possible way and welcome back to FYS4411/9411.
The lecture material this week is to discuss central elements (and how to implement them) of the Monte Carlo machinery. 
We will (for some of you it is a repetition from previous courses)  discuss the mathematics of
- Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- Metropolis-Hastings sampling and Importance Sampling (and for importance sampling the Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations).
With this background we will discuss how to implement these elements in a code. We will most likely use next week as well to discuss these topics.
In addition to the weekly lecture slides at for example http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics2/doc/pub/week3/html/._week3-bs001.html, there is also additional material from FYS3150/4150 on Markov chains at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics/doc/pub/rw/html/rw-bs.html
 Look forward to see you all again and best wishes for the rest of the week,
Morten and Øyvind

p.s. lecture are (except for the week March 7-11 and May 9-13) always digital. The labs are both in-person and digital.