Physical models of Living systems

These are lectures notes for a course about modeling biological systems and biological data analysis. The course is heavily based on a book by the same name by Philip Nelson.

Introduction to quantum and solid state physics

These are the lecture notes for a one semester course in basic quantum and solid state physics intended for second year engineering undergraduates.

I tried to make these notes as accessible and self-contained as possible; yet a background in basic mathematics is required: multi-variable calculus, linear algebra, basic ODE and familiarity with complex numbers. I draw heavily on canonical texts in the field, particularly Cohen Tannoudji’s and Ashcroft and Mermin’s books. When possible, I tried to use wikipedia as a source for figures and bibliographical texts.
The course was supplemented by weekly problem solving sessions and homework assignments – these have been left out of this version but may be incorporated later on.