Statistical Mechanics for the statistician

2. Statistical Mechanics for the statistician#

To write (not necessarly in this order):

  • Notion of information theory

  • Classical spin systems, entropy, free energy, …

  • Maximum entropy method

    • some examples in the continuous case

    • derivation of the spin hamiltonian from max entropy

  • Mean Field for Ising

  • Curie-Weiss model