Lecturers: Scott Bogner, Peter Ring, Nicolas Schunck, Dario Vretenar

Week 1, Week 2, Week 3

• Welcome/Introductory Remarks
• Dario Vretenar 1: Reminder of advanced quantum mechanics: Coordinate and momentum representations of the Hilbert space, discrete bases, operators, Schrodinger equation, spin, isospin, Dirac equation

• Scott Bogner 1: Second quantization: Fermions and bosons, Fock space, Wick theorem, equivalence between representations

• Scott Bogner 2: Hartree-Fock (HF) theory: product states, density matrices, variational principle, Thouless theorem, Koopman's theorem

• Peter Ring 1: Pairing Correlations: Spontaneous symmetry breaking, BCS approximation, pairing tensor, Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) theory

• Peter Ring 2: Random Phase Approximation (RPA): Time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) theory, linear response, stability matrix