Winter Quarter, 2002, Mo. and We., 11:00 - 12:20
Class Schedule
This is a tentative overview over the topics of each lecture. Please note that the subject and/or order of the lectures might change
Jan. 7: Course Overview; Concept of multiscale modeling
Jan. 9: A brief review of concepts in quantum mechanics
Jan. 14: Some basics of many-body quantum mechanics
Jan. 16: Hartree-Fock theory
Jan. 23: Density-functional theory I: Theorems by Hohenberg and Kohn
Jan. 28: Density-functional theory II: The Kohn-Sham equations
Jan. 30: Density-functional theory III: A plane wave implementation and applications
Feb. 4: Density-functional theory IV: FLAPW and applications (Richard Ross)
Feb. 6: Density-functional theory V: Surface diffusion and reconstructions
Feb. 11: Atomistic Models: Molecular dynamics, and transition state theory
Feb. 13: KMC simulations; Theory, and a simple, cubic model
Feb. 20: KMC simulations III: A high resolution growth model (Frank Grosse)
Feb. 25: Mean-field rate equations
Feb. 27: Continuum equations for epitaxial growth I
Mar. 4: Level-set method for epitaxial growth (first half),
and a guest lecture on the basics of elasticity theory (Cameron Connell, second half)
Mar 6: Elasticity theory (Cameron Connell)
Mar. 11: Student seminars I (Lee, Cecil, Kao, Jeon, 20 minutes each)
Mar. 13: Student seminars II (Song, Bae, Cotta, Xu, 20 minutes each)