Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity

• Aimed broadly at grads in physics, computer science, engineering, biology, mathematics, and the social sciences
• Quantum mechanics will be important only for two weeks during the course. Previous statistical mechanics is not required, but extra work to catch up would be necessary. A high level of scientific sophistication, however, is expected.
• Will use a 'flipped classroom' format, with activities during class hours and content covered in the reading.
• Text is the second edition, Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity, second edition (Jan. 2021). New and modified exercises have been added to the first edition.

• Homework Assignments
• Computer exercise hints and course materials
• New exercises developed since the publication of the second edition, and in other fields of physics
• Course description, first day presentation.
• Texts, due dates, exams, grades.
• Jacob Alldredge's This Is Stat Mech, illustrating the old, unflipped classroom experience.

Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters, and Complexity, available at Oxford University Press.