Week 7 update

Hi all,
just a quick update before tomorrow's lecture, with plans for the weeks to come.
Tomorrow we will discuss further the technicalities needed in connection with the setup of the Jastrow factor and the implementation of importance sampling. This is covered by the variational Monte Carlo slides. After this we will start discussing methods for finding optimal variational parameters before we start the large Monte Carlo machinery. In particular we will discuss the conjugate gradient method. This is covered by the slides on the conjugate gradient and other optimization methods slides, see http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics2/doc/pub/cg/html/cg-reveal.html
We will continue with the conjugate gradient method next Thursday as well, that is
Thursday Feb 15: VMC technicalities plus start optimization methods
Thursday Feb 22: Conjugate method and optimization methods
Thursday March 1: No lecture
For the intensive week, let me know if the following fits:

Monday March 5: Lecture 14-16: Optimization methods and statistical error estimates
Tuesday March 6: Lecture 14-16: Statistical error estimation, blocking method, bootstrap and Jacknife
Wednesday March 7: lecture 14-16 : Blocking, Bootstrap ad jacknife
Thursday March 8: Lecture 14-16: Parallelization of codes and lab 16-19

Let me know if this fits your schedule for the intensive week. I can always adjust.

best wishes,
Morten