14 January 2007

The Theory of Open Quantum Systems

The title is exactly the title of my SP3173 Independent Study Module (ISM), or I should now formally call, SP3173 The Theory of Open Quantum Systems. It is a newly-designed ISM (as opposed to a ride-on ISM, in which the student will use the ISM as some sort of wildcard for any existing module) under Dr Yeo Ye.

The module follows a book of the same name which I have to read up and discuss with him every Saturday afternoon. As the book claims to "provide a self-contained presentation", the first chapter starts off with probability theory (the axioms and the probability sets and such) which is, admittedly, a bit mind-boggling at the moment. I do hope that these hardcore mathematics stuff will fade off soon enough, or else there'll be hell for me to endure.

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