Instructor:	Professor Klaus Schulten
	Office:	Room 313 Loomis
	phone:	244-1604
	e-mail:	kschulte@ks.uiuc.edu
	Office hours:	to be defined
Grader:	Alexander Balaeff
	Office:	Room 3121 Beckman Institute
	phone:	244-1612
	e-mail:	sure@ks.uiuc.edu
	Office hours:	By appointment
Location:	Loomis Lab, Room 136
Time:	1:30-2:50 pm	Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Course Web Site:	http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Services/Class/PHYS498
Course Requirements:	Suited for physics graduate students with background in mathematical methods, e.g., Physics 411, 412, in Statistical Mechanics and Quatum Mechanics, e.g., Physics 462, 480, or equivalent knowledge; basic computer skills, e.g., to use Mathematica and the Physics computer workstations, are necessary.
Homework:	There will be about 7 homework sets and a project, which can be chosen from suggestions by the instructor or suggested by students.
Recommended texts:	C.W. Gardiner ``Handbook of Stochastic Methods'' (Springer, 1983) C.W. Gardiner ``Quantum Noise'' (Springer, 1991) N.G. van Kampen ``Stochastic Processes in Physics and Chemistry'' (2nd ed., North-Holland, 1992) P. Wilmott, S. Howison, and F.J. Dewynne ``The Mathematics of Financial Derivatives'' (Cambridge U. Press, 1995) R. Kubo, M. Toda, N. Hashitsume ``Statistical Physics II'' (2nd ed., Springer, 1995) R.N. Bhattacharya and E.C. Waymire ``Stochastic Proceses with Applications'' (Wiley, 1990) H. Gould and J. Tobochnik ``Computer Simulation Methods II'' (Addison-Wesley, 1987) M.P. Allen and D.J. Tildesley ``Computer Simulation Methods'' (Clarendon Press, 1987) D. Frenkel and B. Smit ``Understanding Molecular Simulations / From Algorithms to Applications'' (Academic Press, 1996)
Lecture notes:	Will be provided through the Course Web site.
Grading:	The grading will be based equally on the homework sets and the project.
Course Outline