Statistical mechanics (II) final project

# Statistical mechanics (II) final project ##### 2024, Fall --- ### Important time of the final project * Choose a topic: Send me the topic and rough outline before **Nov. 21th**. * The schedule of presentation will be established later: * 12/12, 12/19 ---- ### Important time of the final project * The deadline to submit the report is on the same date of the presentation. Prepare your report in PDF file and send an email to me with title 'Final_report_2024_StatMech_2_StudentID' * My email: yphuang@phys.nthu.edu.tw * I will response once I receive it. If you did not receive the reply, please send another email to double check. --- ### The format of final project * The presentation ( 20mins presentation + 5~10mins Q&A, in English, using google meet) * The fianl report（ about 6 pages A4, fontsize 12, in English, in pdf） * The evaluation --- ### The choices of topics * If you are working on topics related to statistical mechanics, you can talk about it. * If not, you can find a topic that is related to statistical mechanics. And send me the topic by **Nov. 21** * Followings are some possible topics if your project is not directly related to statistical mechanics. ---- ### The choices of topics (I) complex systems * Spin glasses (2021 Nobel prize in physics!) * Polymer physics (1991 Nobel prize in physics) * Percolation * Complex networks ---- ### The choices of topics (II) critical phenomena * Universality in a system * Critical phenomena in a system * Efimov states (atomic physics) * Exact solution of 2D classical Ising model ---- ### The choices of topics (III) Numerical * Classical Ising model * The exact computations * Monte Carlo algorithms (local sampling method) * Monte Carlo algorithms (Cluster algorithms) * Use those methods to calculate observables we have discussed during the course Ref: "Statistical mechanics: algorithms and computations", by Werner Krauth ---- ### Others * Topics connect with statistical mechanics * Subject that is not explained clearly in the course or subjects that you want to dig deeper into it. * Duality * Emergent symmetry in certain systems * ... --- ### Presentation and the report *Goal: to learn stuff together!* The presentation and the report should try to answer the following questions * Define the problem. What is the topic? * Motivation: Why is it interesting? * The physics: How does the mechanism work? * What could we learn from the topic? ---- ### Introduction of the topic * Background introduction of the problem * Clear definition of the problem ---- ### Motivation(Asking yourself questions!) * Motivation: Why you choose this subject? * What is conceptually non-trivial? * Why is it theoretically interesting/useful? * Why is it experimentally interesting/useful? * Interesting/useful on its own or to other fields ---- ### How does the mechanism work? * What is the assumption? * What is the argument? How it is derived(logic with suitable details)? * What is the primary mechanism? * What implications does it give us? ---- ### What could we learn from this subject? * What are the related key concepts? * How does it connect with experiments? * How does the subject connects with other theoretical ideas? * How does the idea change previous understanding of the field? ---- ### Format of the final presentation * 20mins presentation, no questions during the presentation * Usually, it means $\lesssim$ 20 slides * After the presentation, we have Q&A for 5 to 10 mins ---- ### Sturcture of the presentation * Define the problem $\to$ Motivation $\to$ the physics $\to$ What we have learned * Explain the idea using the simplest non-trivial example * Use the simplest non-trivial example to explain more complicated cases * A summary on the subject from the bigger scope. (Think about the meaning of the result to the community) ---- ### Format of the final report * About 6 pages A4 paper. * Font size 12 * Try to *explain* things such that people can learn. Do not use information to overload your reader. * If you need to use equations, show the key equations and explain the logic that connects those key equations. Not all the details. * Simplest criteria: a document that is helpful to educate yourself efficiently. ---- ### Details of the final report * Should contain the following information: * Motivation: Why should we spend our time to learn it? * Mechanism: How does it work? What are the key assumptions? How to go from the assumptions to the conclusion? * How it is related to other problems in a more general scope? Does it trigger further scientific questions? Does it build connections between two different areas? --- ### The evaluation * For the presentation: mutual evaluation (20%). Detailed evaluation sheet will be provided later. * For the report: I will give a score (20%) * We just use A,B,C to evaluate the presentation * A: Excellent * B: OK * C: Needs improvement ---- ### Evaluation of the presentation * Logical structure * Content of the talk * Presentation clarity * Q&A * Do you feel you learn something? ---- ### Evaluation of the presentation * Logical structure * Assumptions, implications,... * Can the speaker tell a story or give a full picture about the subject? * Background introduction, motivation, reviews of previous works, key idea/concepts, conclusion * Can the speaker cover the points in the outline properly? ---- ### Evaluation of the presentation * Content of the talk * Experiment, theory, numerics * Calarity: Can the audiance understand the speaker? Can the speaker * Summarize the key conclusions of the relevant references? * Describe the setting/meaning of the previous results? * Connects the key ideas clearly? ---- ### Evaluation of the presentation * The presentation clearity * Readable font size * Clearly identify the key information. * Using visual aids (Figures, simple tables, schematic plots) ---- ### Evaluation of the presentation * The Q&A section * Can the speaker understand the question from the audiance? * Did the speaker answer the questions properly? ---- ### Do you feel you learn something? * As an audiance, do you feel you learn new things? ---- ### Evaluation of the report * Similar with the presentation, but have more room to describe the subtle ideas or build further connections with different subjects. ----