March 29 2004

NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: QUANTUM CHAOS
  

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TEXT: Classical and Quantum Chaos webbook, available on ChaosBook.org
All chapter and exercise numbers refer to this book, unless stated otherwise.

PLACE AND TIMES:
Tue, Thu 09:35-10:55 in Howey S104

TEACHING ASSISTANT: Bo Li, gt3159a at prism.gatech.edu Howey W503, Phone: 404/384-9407

EXPERT GROUP: Rytis Paskauskas, Yueheng Lan, Mason Porter, Thomas Bartsch, Luz Vianey Vela-Arevalo, Slaven Peles

PROBLEM SETS: Please deliver solutions to problem sets by Thursday, at the lecture, or place them in Predrag's mailbox.

Lecture 1              Thu Jan 8 2004

Friday Jan 9:    Registration ends

Lecture 2              Tue Jan 13 2004

Lecture 3              Thu Jan 15 2004

Monday Jan 19:    Martin Luther King day, no classes

Lecture 4              Tue Jan 20 2004
solutions, problem set I

Lecture 5              Thu Jan 22 2004

Lecture 6              Tue Jan 27 2004

Lecture 7              Thu Jan 29 2004

Lecture 8              Tue Feb 3 2004
Problem sets II, III (chapter "Semiclassical evolution" exercises, version 10.1.7)

Lecture 9              Thu Feb 5 2004

Lecture 10              Tue Feb 10 2004

Lecture 11              Thu Feb 12 2004

Friday Feb 13:    last day to drop the course

Lecture 12              Tue Feb 17 2004

Lecture 13              Thu Feb 19 2004
Problem set IV (chapter "Weak noise dynamics", boyscout edition 10.1.7)
LaTeX source files (some fiddling needed): noise.tex, refsNoise.tex; input also macros def.tex.
"Solution, problem set IV (chapter "Noise", boyscout edition 10.1.8)
LaTeX source file: noise.tex.

Rest of the schedule is preliminary

Lecture 14              Tue Feb 24 2004

Lecture 15              Thu Feb 26 2004

Lecture 16              Tue Mar 2 2004

Lecture 17              Thu Mar 4 2004

Monday Mar 8:    spring break week, to Mar 12

Lecture 18              Tue Mar 16 2004

Lecture 19              Thu Mar 18 2004

Lecture 20              Tue Mar 23 2004

Lecture 21              Thu Mar 25 2004

Lecture 22              Tue Mar 30 2004

Lecture 23              Thu Apr 1 2004

Lecture 24              Tue Apr 6 2004

Wednesday Apr 07:    fall registration starts

Lecture 25              Thu Apr 8 2004
chapter "Chaotic multiscattering", boyscout edition 10.1.9
check also overheads of talks and (un)publications on quantum chaos by Andreas Wirzba

Lecture 26              Tue Apr 13 2004
           Exercise 24.5           

Lecture 27              Thu Apr 15 2004

Tuesday Apr 20:    fall registration ends

Lecture 28              Tue Apr 20 2004

Lecture 29              Thu Apr 22 2004

Friday Apr 23:    classes end

Monday Apr 26:    finals week, until Apr 30

Thursday Apr 29:    Term paper       
due no later than 16:00 - Predrag's office