Calendar of 8.06 (2008)



Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Feb 4

Registration
Day

Feb 5

L1                    

PS 1 out

Feb 6

Recitation

Feb 7

L2

 

Feb 8

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Feb 11

Recitation

Feb 12

L3                  

PS 1 due        

PS 2 out

Feb 13

Recitation

Feb 14

L4
 

Feb 15

Feb 18

Presidents Day

Feb 19

Recitation    

PS 3 out

Feb 20

Recitation

PS 2 due

 

 

Feb 21

L5

Feb 22
 

Feb 25

Recitation

Feb 26  

       

L6           

PS 3 due        

PS 4 out

Feb 27

Recitation

 

 

Feb 28

L7

Feb 29
 

Mar 3

Recitation

Mar 4

L8                     

PS 4 due        

PS 5 out

Mar 5

Recitation

 

 

Mar 6

L9

Mar 7

Add Date
 

 

Mar 10

Recitation  

Mar 11

L10                  

PS 5 due        

PS 6 out

Mar 12

Recitation

 

Mar 13

L11

Mar 14
 

Mar 17


Recitation  

Mar 18

L12                  

PS 6 due  

Mar 19

Recitation

 

Mar 20

Midterm in class

12:30-2:00 pm

Mar 21
 

 

Mar 24

Mar 25

SPRING

Mar 26

Mar 27

BREAK

Mar 28

Mar 31

Recitation

Apr 1

L13                  

PS 7 out     

paper outline due       

Apr  2

Recitation

 

 

Apr 3      

 

L14

Apr 4
 

 

Apr 7

Recitation

Apr 8

L15                  

PS 7 due        

PS 8 out

Apr 9

Recitation

Apr 10

L16

Apr 11
 

Apr 14

Recitation

Apr 15

L17                 

 

DRAFT DUE

Apr 16

Recitation

 

 

Apr 17

L18            

 

Apr 18
 

PS 8 due        

PS 9 out

Apr 21

Patriots Day - Vacation

Apr 22

Patriots Day - Vacation

Apr 23

Recitation

Apr 24

L19          

 

Drop Date    

Apr 27

 

 

Apr 28

Recitation

Apr 29

L20

 

PAPER DUE

Apr 30

Recitation

 

 

May 1

L21            

 

May 2

PS  9 due        

PS 10 out

May 5

Recitation  

May 6

L22

May 7

Recitation

May 8

L23

May 9   

 

PS 10 due

May 12

 

Recitation

 

 

May 13

L24

May 14

Recitation  

May 15

L25   

       

PAPER handout

May 16

May 19      

 

Final Exam Week

 

May 20

May 21

May 22

May 23

 

 

LEC #

TOPICS

RELATED ASSIGNMENTS

1-3

Degenerate Fermi Systems

Assignment 1,2

4-8

Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field

Assignments 2, 3, 4

9-12

Time-independent Perturbation Theory

Assignments 4, 5, 6

13-15

Variational and Semi-classical Methods

Assignments 7, 8

16-18

The Adiabatic Approximation and Berry's Phase

Assignment 8

19-20

Time-dependent Perturbation Theory

Assignments 9

21-24

Scattering

PS10, Optional Problem Set

24-25

Quantum Computing

Optional Problem Set