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-For many years already, I have been involved with teaching of physics. Presently, I concentrate on [[MOOC_SMAC|MOOC teaching]].+For many years already, I have been involved with teaching of physics. Presently, I concentrate on [[MOOC_SMAC|MOOC teaching]], and on a new course on statistical physics within the master ENS-ICFP at ENS. I also teach quite a lot in summer schools.
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For many years already, I have been involved with teaching of physics. Presently, I concentrate on MOOC teaching, and on a new course on statistical physics within the master ENS-ICFP at ENS. I also teach quite a lot in summer schools.

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Wiki-based teaching

Here is the link to the wiki of some of my recent courses.

Here is the old wiki (courses up to 2012, it is now read-only, due to security problems

In 2013, we changed to a new wikispaces site

Lectures 2013/14

In 2013/14, I taught 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 was 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 were on the blackboard, training sessions use the computer a lot. Then there was homework where students are asked to program more or less complicated, but always interesting subjects in the Python programming language.

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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.

Use of English

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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.


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!

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