Activities April 4-8

Dear all, here's a short update on our further plans till the end of the semester. 
Since the majority of you plan to work on neural networks as ways to solve the same type of equations as in project 1 (replacing for example the correlated part of the wave function with either a neural network or a Boltzmann machine), we will use the rest of the semester for regular lectures on this topic, in addition to our normal labgroups. As of now we have two project groups based on the selection below
  o Neural Networks and Boltzmann Machines with material at http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics2/doc/LectureNotes/_build/html/boltzmannmachines.html
  o Path integral Monte Carlo project

Since the majority of you plan to work on neural networks and Boltzmann machines, we will have lectures on this topic for the rest of the semester.
We meet each Thursday at 2.15pm for theory lectures and discussions till approx 4pm. The remaining three hours are dedicated to project work. 
For those of you who plan to work on an independently defined project, you can start discussing as a group during our lecture time and just come to the regular lab sessions.

Here's just a reminder about possible variants of project 2.

===== Alternatives for project 2 =====

o Fermion VMC, continuation of project 1
o Deep learning applied to project 1, either neural networks or Boltzmann machines
o Hartree-Fock theory and time-dependent theories
o Many-body methods like coupled-cluster theory or other many-body methods
o Quantum computing and possibly quantum machine learning
o Suggestions from you

Cya all soon and best wishes to you all,
Morten and ?yvind