Weekly plans and update for week 11 and 12

Dear All, we hope you are doing well during these difficult times.  Here's a brief update with plans for this and next week.
As you may also know, we are in the unfortunate situation that we cannot have in-person lectures and in-person labs.  This situation is going to persist till after the holiday break. If we are unlucky, it is not unlikely that the rest of the semester will have to be fully digital. 
Next Thursday it is our last lecture before the holiday break. Our next lecture is April 8 and we will have our last lecture May 6. The last lab session is May  15.

Feel thus free to schedule eventual zoom sessions if needed in addition to our Thursday sessions. 
Hopefully we can then compensate for the lack of in-person contacts.
Due to the present situation and the difficulties in getting things done, we are going to be pretty flexible with the project deadlines. We have set a given deadline for your planning of the semester. Although most of us are dedicated procrastinators, a deadline helps in planning the semester. However, these are soft deadlines and if you have problems meeting the deadlines,  we can always adapt to that.  Feel free to send us a message.

Else, last week we ended our discussion of resampling techniques, with an emphasis on the blocking method for handling large data sets. Our last topic for project 1 is going to be parallelization. And we will cover this today and next week as well (last lecture before the holiday break). 
The slides are at for example http://compphysics.github.io/ComputationalPhysics2/doc/pub/week10/html/week10-reveal.html and we will cover MPI and OpenMP. 
Today we will also discuss the calculation of onebody densities.  These is not in the slide material but will be covered by the handwritten notes. 

Stay well and best wishes to you all,
Morten and ?yvind

p.s. Next Thursday we will also discuss possible variants of project 2. Feel free to suggest topics, we are very open and flexible to your ideas, as long they are within quantum mechanical problems. At present, the following topics are possible
1) Fermion VMC, continuation of project 1
2) Deep learning applied to project 1, either neural networks or Boltzmann machines
3) Hartree-Fock theory and time-dependent theories
4) Many-body methods like coupled-cluster theory
5) Quantum computing and possibly quantum machine learning
6) more!!