Teaching WK
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| Presently (fall 2012), I teach a [http://cours-physique.lps.ens.fr/index.php/M2_CFP_Computational_Physics_2011 second-year Master course] (fifth year counting from high-school) at Ecole normale supérieure. Subjects go from Monte Carlo algorithms to bosons, fermions, classical spins, quantum spins, Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains, the thirteen-sphere problem, and many more. I am helped by my colleagues Alberto Rosso and Vivien Lecomte, and we are having a lot of fun (and a bit of work also)! Our approach to teaching is the fruit of a lot of experiments. Lectures are on the blackboard, training sessions use the computer a lot. Then there is homework where students are asked to program more or less complicated, but always interesting subjects in the Python programming language. | Presently (fall 2012), I teach a [http://cours-physique.lps.ens.fr/index.php/M2_CFP_Computational_Physics_2011 second-year Master course] (fifth year counting from high-school) at Ecole normale supérieure. Subjects go from Monte Carlo algorithms to bosons, fermions, classical spins, quantum spins, Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains, the thirteen-sphere problem, and many more. I am helped by my colleagues Alberto Rosso and Vivien Lecomte, and we are having a lot of fun (and a bit of work also)! Our approach to teaching is the fruit of a lot of experiments. Lectures are on the blackboard, training sessions use the computer a lot. Then there is homework where students are asked to program more or less complicated, but always interesting subjects in the Python programming language. | ||
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| + | [[Image:ICFP comp phys 2012.JPG|left|50px]] Here, some of the students of the 2012 lectures, together with | ||
| + | Vivien Lecomte (9th from the right) and Alberto Rosso (8th), at the conf IV lecture room at ENS. | ||
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| [[Image:dreaming.png|left|50px]]By the way, teaching in the ENS physics department takes place in English, at least in our two-year Master in fundamental physics geared at outstanding French and international students. | [[Image:dreaming.png|left|50px]]By the way, teaching in the ENS physics department takes place in English, at least in our two-year Master in fundamental physics geared at outstanding French and international students. | ||
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For many years already, I have been involved with teaching of physics.
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Wiki-based teaching
Here is the link to the wiki of some of my recent courses.
http://cours-physique.lps.ens.fr/index.php/Main_Page
Present lectures
Presently (fall 2012), I teach a second-year Master course (fifth year counting from high-school) at Ecole normale supérieure. Subjects go from Monte Carlo algorithms to bosons, fermions, classical spins, quantum spins, Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains, the thirteen-sphere problem, and many more. I am helped by my colleagues Alberto Rosso and Vivien Lecomte, and we are having a lot of fun (and a bit of work also)! Our approach to teaching is the fruit of a lot of experiments. Lectures are on the blackboard, training sessions use the computer a lot. Then there is homework where students are asked to program more or less complicated, but always interesting subjects in the Python programming language.
Vivien Lecomte (9th from the right) and Alberto Rosso (8th), at the conf IV lecture room at ENS.
Use of English
The Super-bonus
In our homework sessions, we sometimes ask a final question that is really tough... Correct solutions earn their authors a super-bonus, and we always discuss answers to the super-bonus in class. This year, we already had two student solutions of super-bonus questions that were much better than our own solution... Quite a vivid atmosphere in lectures, training sessions and at home!
