Teaching WK

From Werner KRAUTH

For many years already, I have been involved with teaching of physics. Here is the link to the wiki of some of my recent courses.

http://cours-physique.lps.ens.fr/index.php/Main_Page

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.

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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