About#

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Description#

  • This website holds content for the course “Chem 563 Statistical Mechanics for Chemistry and Biology” taught during spring semesters at the Deparment of Chemistry at Iowa State University.

  • The objective of the course is to provide graduate students in STEM field with a solid theoretical foundation of statistical mechanics and showcase its computational utility in wide range of complex problems.

  • The course has a strong computational component and has extensive dsicussion sof Monte Carlo, Molecular Dynamics, Stochastic Processes and Machine Learning techniques.

  • All the code is organized in website as jupyter notebooks and can be run either on Google Colab or locally on a laptop.

Prerequisites#

  • No programing expreience is assumed. Python3 and its ecosystem of scientific libraries will be introduced at the beginning of the course in an accessible manner.

  • The only prerequisite is basic working knowledge of Calculus and exposure to Thermodynamics taught in most undergraduate chemistry courses.

Feedback#

  • If you find a typo or have a suggestion please open an issue on Github. I would highly appreciate any feedback and contributions.