Oxford Lectures 2025
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| My [https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/algorithms-and-computations-theoretical-physics-set-lectures 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK)] run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025. | My [https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/events/algorithms-and-computations-theoretical-physics-set-lectures 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK)] run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025. | ||
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| + | We start our parallel exploration of physics and of computing with the concept of | ||
| + | sampling, the process of producing examples (“samples”) of a probability distribu- | ||
| + | tion. In week 1, we consider “direct” sampling (the examples are obtained directly) | ||
| + | and, among the many connections to physics, will come across the Maxwell distri- | ||
| + | bution. In 1859, it marked the beginning of the field of statistical physics. | ||
| [http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Ekrauth/images/b/b4/WK_Lecture1_Oxford2025.pdf Here are the notes for the first lecture (21 January 2025). ] | [http://www.lps.ens.fr/%7Ekrauth/images/b/b4/WK_Lecture1_Oxford2025.pdf Here are the notes for the first lecture (21 January 2025). ] | ||
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My 2025 Public Lectures at the University of Oxford (UK) run from 21 January 2025 through 11 March 2025.
We start our parallel exploration of physics and of computing with the concept of sampling, the process of producing examples (“samples”) of a probability distribu- tion. In week 1, we consider “direct” sampling (the examples are obtained directly) and, among the many connections to physics, will come across the Maxwell distri- bution. In 1859, it marked the beginning of the field of statistical physics.
