Computational Physics Laboratory

The course "Computational Physics" introduces several modern techniques adopted in the theoretical and experimental research in Physics, useful for the development of models and the prediction of physical observables.
The course aims at stimulating the students skills, to analyze the proposed probles and to project the computer code necessary for their solution. We will write original code, limiting the usage of external packages and libraries.
The students will be invitetd to analyze the efficiency of their code
and the possible critical elements.
In modern computer programming several languages and frameworks can be interfaced, combining the resepctive strenghts. The students will be exposed to this variety and will learn to handle it.

At the end of the course the students will master a modern programming language (Mathematica, CUDA, C++, Python).
Writing an original package/library will induce the development of logical skills and the algorithmic formulation of the solution of the problem. The ability to solve coding problems, both at low- and high-level, is expecetd.
The final presentation and discussion of the results of the simulations will force the student to critically analyze the validity of the results and the effectiveness of the chosen solutions.