Calendar

Week	Lecture I Info	Lecture II Info	Exercises	Important Info
Week 1 02/06 - 02/10	Lecture 1 (Mon, 02/06) Course Overview Readings: GDL Ch. 3 & 7	Lecture 2 (Wed, 02/08) CLASS CANCELED	Exercises: Numpy (due 2/17) Groups (due 2/17)
Week 2 02/13 - 02/17	Lecture 3 (Mon, 02/13) Intro to Finite Groups Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 1.1 - 1.7 Dresselhaus Ch. 2.1 Georgi Ch. 1.[1,2,7,8,10]	Lecture 4 (Wed, 02/15) Linear Algebra Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 1.1 - 1.7 Dresselhaus Ch. 2.1	Exercises: Linear Algebra (due 2/24)
Week 3 02/20 - 02/24	Lecture 5 (Tue, 02/21) Similarity Transforms + Representations of Finite Groups I: Reps, Irreps, Schur's Lemma Part 1 Readings: Laub Ch 13.[1,2,3] Dresselhaus Ch. 2 Georgi Ch. 1.[3,4,6,9,11,12]	Lecture 6 (Wed, 02/22) Representations of Finite Groups II: Schur's Lemma Part 2 & Wonderful Orthogonality Thm Part 1 Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 2 Georgi Ch. 1.[3,4,6,9,11,12]	Exercises: Representations Part I (due 3/10)	Monday, Feb. 20 is President's Day Holiday. Tuesday, Feb. 21 -- Monday schedule held
Week 4 02/27 - 03/03	Lecture 7 (Mon, 02/27) Representations of Finite Groups III: Wonderful Orthogonality Thm Part 2 & Character of Representations Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 2 Dresselhaus Ch. 3.[1-.7] Georgi Ch. 1.[3,4,6,9,11,12]	Lecture 8 (Wed, 03/01) Representations of Finite Groups IV: Characters (cont.) & Tensor Products Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 3.[1-.7] Dresselhaus Ch. 6.[3, 4, 5] Georgi Ch. 1.[15, 16, 17] Serre Ch. 1.5 & 3.2	Exercises: Representations Part II (due 3/10)
Week 5 03/06 - 03/10	Lecture 9 (Mon, 03/06) SO(3) and its Representations Part I Readings: Georgi Ch. 1.15, 1.16, 2	Lecture 10 (Wed, 03/08) SO(3) and its Representations Part II Readings: Georgi Ch. 3	Exercises: Lie Groups (due 3/17)
Week 6 03/13 - 03/17	Lecture 11 (Mon, 03/13) Neural Networks + Symmetry I: Overview and Linear Layers Readings: GDL Ch. 2, 3.1, & 5	Lecture 12 (Wed, 03/15) Neural Networks + Symmetry II: Primer for Convolutions - Basis Functions Readings: Dresselhaus Ch. 4
Week 7 03/20 - 03/24	Lecture 13 (Mon, 03/20) Neural Networks + Symmetry III	Lecture 14 (Wed, 03/22) Neural Networks + Symmetry IV	Exercises: Rotations (due 4/7) Neural Networks (due 4/11)
MIT Spring Break 3/27 - 3/31
Week 8 04/03 - 04/07	Lecture 15 (Mon, 04/03) Project Overview + Intro to jax (and related libraries)	Lecture 16 (Wed, 04/05) Intro to e3nn-jax
Week 9 04/10 - 04/14	Lecture 17 (Mon, 04/10) Intro to e3nn-jax continued	Lecture 18 (Wed, 04/12) Spherical harmonic projections, visualization, and spectra		Project proposal due Wednesday 4/12. Submit via email (symm4ml-instructors@mit.edu) Special Office Hours this week
Week 10 04/17 - 04/21		Lecture 19 (Wed, 04/19) Project Workshop I (PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO CLASS)		4/17 is a Patriots' Day! No class Monday! First Draft of Project Computational Essay Due 4/18. Submit via email (symm4ml-instructors@mit.edu)
Week 11 04/24 - 04/28	Lecture 20 (Mon, 04/24) Project Workshop II (PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO CLASS)	Lecture 21 (Wed, 04/26) Project Workshop III (PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO CLASS)		Drop Date is Tuesday 4/25!
Week 12 05/01 - 05/05	Lecture 22 (Mon, 05/01) Project Presentations I	Lecture 23 (Wed, 05/03) Project Presentations II
Week 13 05/08 - 05/12	Lecture 24 (Mon, 05/08) Project Presentations III	Lecture 25 (Wed, 05/10) Project Presentations IV		Posters due Thursday, 5/11 at 9am! Final Draft of Project Computational Essay due Monday 5/15 @ 2:30pm! Submit both via email (symm4ml-instructors@mit.edu)
Week 14 05/15 - 05/19	Lecture 26 (Mon, 05/15) Class Poster Reception			Final Draft of Project Computational Essay due Monday 5/15 @ 2:30pm! May 16th is last day of classes.