Instructor

Sumit Saxena

Semester

Autumn ‘21

Course Difficulty

Very Simple

Time Commitment Required

1-2 hour of reading slides before any test(quiz, midsem or endsem)

Grading Policy and Statistics

29 AAs, 1 AB, 4FRs out of 34 students

Attendance Policy

No Attendance

Pre-requisites

Knowledge of Density Functional Theory might save you some time in the project, but not necessary.

Evaluation Scheme

50% Project
20% Endsem
30% Quiz(2) and Midsem

Topics Covered in the Course

Pair potentials, Variational principles, Born – Oppenheimer Approximation, Hartree Approximation, Hartree – Fock Approximation, , Introduction to Molecular Dynamics, Introduction to Density Functional Theory, Case studies

Teaching Style

Zoom- was completely online for me.
WhatsApp group was created for queries

Tutorials/Assignments/Projects

Explained in classes, Fairly straightforward.

Feedback on Exams

Most types of questions were covered in the lectures already.

Motivation for taking this course

Being a 4th Year DD student, I needed to invest some time for Summer Intern apping. Hence, needed a low effort:grade ratio course to finish my electives.

Course Highlights

Grades being submitted without revealing project marks(50% weightage)

How strongly would I recommend this course?

Take only if Prof. Sumit Saxena is the instructor.

When to take this course?

Can tag as elective directly, and if willing to do that, sem3 would be ideal, before intern season.
If tagging as ALC, any odd sem works

Interesting relevant links

exabyte.io for project. (Online quantum espresso)

Review By: Shardul Burde