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Lecture Notes

DAY # TOPICS
1 Introduction & Case Studies
2 Potentials, Supercells, Relaxation, Methodology
3 Potentials 2: Potentials for different materials classes, atom methods 
Beaming to start half-hour early with SMA students, and to finish half hour late with Cambridge students, for lab questions.
4 First Principles Energy Methods: Hartree Fock
5 First Principles Energy Methods: Density Functional Theory
6 Technical Aspects of Density Functional Theory
7 Case studies of DFT. Properties and Accuracy 
Beaming to start half-hour early with SMA students, and to finish half hour late with Cambridge students, for lab questions.
8 Advanced DFT, New Developments and Alternative Algorithms, Car-Parrinello
9 Finite temperature: Review of Stat Mech and Thermodynamics
Excitations in materials and how to sample them
10 Molecular Dynamics I 
Beaming to start half-hour early with SMA students, and to finish half hour late with Cambridge students, for lab questions.
11 Molecular Dynamics II
12 Molecular Dynamics III
13 Monte Carlo Simulations: Application to Lattice Models, Sampling Errors, Metastability
Beaming to start half-hour early with SMA students, and to finish half hour late with Cambridge students, for lab questions.
14 Coarse Graining: Alloy Theory
15 Alloy Theory II, Free Energy Integration: Show different ways of integration (lambda, temperature, field, particle, potentials)
16 Modeling in Industry (Chris Wolverton from Ford Motor Company)
Beaming to start half-hour early with SMA students, and to finish half hour late with Cambridge students, for lab questions.
17 Data Mining in Materials Science and Engineering I
Reverse Beaming from Singapore
18 Data Mining in Materials Science and Engineering II
Reverse Beaming from Singapore
19 Case Studies I
20 Case Studies II