PHYSICS 510 (3)

Stochastic processes in physics

Spring 2003

Birger Bergersen

I am preparing for this course not knowing who my audience would be.This is a “good news, bad news” situation. The bad news is that I have not been able to prepare as much as I probably should. The good news is that there is a great deal of flexibility with regards to material. Click here for a “menu” of possible topics. The list is too long for there to be room for all topics, so we will have to make a selection. Because of the variety of topics there is no single book that covers everything. I have included pointers to reading material for most of the topics.

Course organization: There will be approximately 6 assignments relating to the lecture material. At the end of the term students registered in the course must prepare a term project. You will be asked to make an oral presentation to the class of your results and also prepare a written report. The written report should be in a form suitable for posting on the web.

I plan to post as many as possible of the lectures on the web. This task is made somewhat easier by the fact that many of the lectures from a previous version of the course already have been posted.