Program week 1

Monday January 19, in Delfinen (on reserve: FL52) at 10.00 a.m.

1. Welcome!
2. List of participants.
3. Teachers: Shiwu Gao (SG), Per Hyldgaard (PH), Bengt Lundqvist (BL) , Mats Persson (MP), Elsebeth Schröder (ES), ...
4. Information about the course (BL).
5. Lectures on
• The Physics of Materials (BL);
• The Role of Materials Theory in Materials Science:
• Building Materials Atom by Atom (MP),
• Why I like materials theory (PH),
• Molecules and solid surfaces - two very different examples of materials theory applications (ES),
• The Three Pillars of Materials Science: Experiment, Theory, and Computer Simulations (BL).

Monday - Friday:

1. Computer exercises: Why not get used to the computer through some simulation projects, (Ising model, Burger's vector, ...). Look up the booking list to see when appropriate suipervisor is available for a brief introduction.
2. Project: The project list will successively grow. Have a look now and then to see what the problems are like. If you have made up your mind: Sign up on the sign-up list
3. Home-work problems will come at the end of this and in the beginning of next week.
4. Quiz: The first one will come late next week. In the meantime: Read the question list and get familiar with typical questions!

 

 

Friday January 23, in Delfinen at 10.00 a.m.

Lectures on...

• The Role of Materials Theory in Materials Science:
• From qualitative accounts to quantitative ones (BL)
• Materials theory from different perspectives (SG)
• The individuality of atoms in molecules and materials (BL);
• The density-functional theory as a basis, intr. (BL).

 
 


 
 
 

Textansvarig: Bengt Lundqvist