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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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.