Timetable for Autumn Term, 2005
| Consider what the lecturer, meeting the class for the first time,
has to do: the lecturer must guide this collection of individuals through
territory the students are unfamiliar with, towards a common meeting point,
but without knowing where they are starting from, how much baggage they
are carrying, and what kind of vehicle they are using. This is insanity.
It is truly a miracle, and a tribute to human ingenuity, that any student
learns anything worthwhile in such a system.
Diana Laurillard Rethinking university teaching: a framework for the effective use of educational technology (RoutledgeFalmer, Second Edition, 2001), page 3. |
Week Dates Lectures Topics/Assignments
Oct No class Collect introductory material: Books & references,
3-7 this week Tools, and Web resources.
Oct M 10 1. Bonds and Bands: chemical and physical approaches
10-14 Tu 11 2. Particles in boxes: free and nearly free electrons
Oct M 17 Computation and consultation
17-21 Tu 18 3. Crystallography in real and reciprocal spaces
Oct M 24 Computation and consultation
24-28 Tu 25 4. Exchange-correlation, LDA and density functional theory
Oct31 M 31 Computation and consultation
Nov 4 Tu 1 5. Metallic band structures and methods of calculation
Nov M 7 Computation and consultation
7-11 Tu 8 6. Variational and Tight-binding methods (MH)
Nov M 14 Computation and consultation (ISM)
14-18 Tu 15 Variational/Tight-binding continued (MH)
Nov M 21 Computation and consultation (ISM)
21-25 Tu 22 Project work
Nov28 M 28 Computation and consultation
Dec 2 Tu 29 7. Diamond structure semiconductors: the case of silicon
Dec M 5 Computation and consultation
5-9 Tu 6 8. Matrix (N-cubed) and order-N methods
Problems/ computations/ projects due.