Plans for the week of February 26-March 1

Dear all, this week we will focus only on project work before we introduce new theoretical elements.

This means that there is no regular lecture on March 1, we start at 10.15am with lab and project work only and end at 3pm as usual.

The hope is that we are all able to have importance sampling implemented and hopefully to start with the implementation of the optimization part discussed last Friday (February 23).

Next week we will introduce our second-last theoretical element that we will need to implement. This elements deals with a proper statistical evaluation of the errors in the Monte Carlo sampling and leads to so-called resampling methods like Bootstrap, Jackknife and Blocking. 

Since we will produce millions of Monte Carlo samples, the preferred method for a reliable statistical evaluation of the standard error is the so-called Blocking method. The slides for next week's lecture can be found https://github.com/CompPhysics/ComputationalPhysics2/blob/gh-pages/doc/pub/week8/ipynb/week8.ipynb

Happy lab work and best wishes for the coming weekend,

Daniel, H?kon and Morten