Four lectures on different problems of theoretical physics

Four Lectures on Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics

Four lectures on computational statistical physics

1 Lectures given at the 2008 Les Houches Summer School " Exact methods in low-dimensional physics and quantum computing ". Preface In my lectures at the Les Houches Summer School 2008, I discussed central concepts of computational statistical physics, which I felt would be accessible to the very cross-cultural audience at the school. I started with a discussion of sampling, which lies at the he...

Four Lectures on the Physics of Crystal Growth

Several aspects of the theory of epitaxial crystal growth from atomic or molecular beams are developed from the perspective of statistical physics. Lectures are devoted to the rate equation theory of two-dimensional nucleation and its limitations; the growth of multilayer wedding cakes in the presence of strong step edge barriers; the continuum theory of mound coarsening; and growth-induced ste...

Toronto Lectures on Physics

3 The permittivity of space-time is a metric on u(1). 8 3.1 Electrostatics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.1 The electric field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.2 The dielectric displacement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.1.3 The dielectric operator and the dielectric coefficient. . . . 9 3.1.4 The dielectric coefficient. . . . . . . ...

Lectures on Theoretical Ecology