Advanced Statistical Physics (PH7L004)

An elective course on critical phenomena given to third/fourth semester MSc students at IIT Bhubaneswar. The course is of 3 credits (3 hours/week) and the detailed curriculum can be found here.

I am assisting the instructor Dr Malay Bandyopadhyay in this course during Autumn 2022 and have also lead two (1 hour each) discussion sessions on some introductory aspects of the renormalization group (particularly block spin transformations and real space RG). 

References:

1) Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group by N. Goldenfeld.

This is the primary textbook for the course. The explanations are quite detailed and rigourous, although I find the book somewhat dry. 

2) I also like these lecture notes by David Tong.