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===Vibrational eigenmodes===
===Vibrational eigenmodes===


* P. B. Allen and J. Kelner, ''Evolution of a vibrational wave packet on a disordered chain'', Am. J. Phys. '''66''', 497 (1998). [http://math.mit.edu/~kelner/Publications/Docs/KAAJP.pdf PDF].
* P. B. Allen and J. Kelner, ''Evolution of a vibrational wave packet on a disordered chain'', Am. J. Phys. '''66''', 497 (1998). [http://math.mit.edu/~kelner/Publications/Docs/KAAJP.pdf [PDF]]


* J. Fabian, ''Decay of localized vibrational states in glasses: A one-dimensional example'', Phys. Rev. B '''55''', R3328 (1997). [http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.R3328 PDF]
* J. Fabian, ''Decay of localized vibrational states in glasses: A one-dimensional example'', Phys. Rev. B '''55''', R3328 (1997). [http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.55.R3328 [PDF]]


===50th Anniversary of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem===
===50th Anniversary of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem===

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Lecture 1: Computation as a tool for discovery in physics

Lecture 2: Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations

Lecture 3: Introduction to deterministic chaos

Lecture 4: Vibrational eigenmodes: From glasses to Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

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Vibrational eigenmodes

  • P. B. Allen and J. Kelner, Evolution of a vibrational wave packet on a disordered chain, Am. J. Phys. 66, 497 (1998). [PDF]
  • J. Fabian, Decay of localized vibrational states in glasses: A one-dimensional example, Phys. Rev. B 55, R3328 (1997). [PDF]

50th Anniversary of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem

  • G. P. Berman and F. M. Izrailev, The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem: 50 years of progress, nlin.CD/0411062.
  • P. Dauxois, M. Peyrard, and S. Ruffo, The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam "numerical experiment": history and pedagogical perspectives, nlin.PS/0501053.
  • Focus issue of "Chaos": THE "FERMI-PASTA-ULAM" PROBLEM-THE FIRST 50 YEARS
  • S. Flach, M. V. Ivanchenko, O. I. Kanakov, and K. G. Mishagin, Periodic orbits, localization in normal mode space, and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem, Am. J. Phys. 76, 453 (2008). PDF.
  • Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations, T. Dauxois and S. Ruffo (2008), Scholarpedia, 3(8):5538.

Lecture 5: Introduction to Fourier analysis

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Lecture 6: Random Numbers, Random Walks, Monte Carlo, and all that

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Lecture 7: Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics

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Lecture 8: Computational Methods for Quantum Mechanics

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Lecture 9: Interdisciplinary Topics in Complex Systems

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