II) Method of Numerical Simulation

• Chapters 29 to 31 from MacKay's book on
  Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
  Cambridge Univ. Press 2003
  downloadable pdf for on-screen viewing .
• Cluster Algorithms :
  N.Kawashima, K.Harada , Recent developments of World-Line Monte Carlo Methods

• Java Applet for 2 dim. Ising Model
  Visual display of the configurations .
  Controls for temperature, size , boundary properties and the initial configuration.
  Display of energy and magnetization during the simulation.
  Requires: Web Browser with Java support.
• Java Applet for 2 dim. Ising Model
  to compare the Metropolis algorithm with the cluster algorithms of Swendsen-Wang and Wolff .
  Visual display of the configurations . Controls for temperature and algorithm.
  Requires: Web Browser with Java support.

III) Euclidean Quantum Field Theory on the Lattice

• Euclidean Quantum Fields
  I.Montvay, G.Münster , Chapter 1
• General Properties of Quantum Field Theory
  F.Strocchi, Lecture Notes in Physics-Vol.51

• QM: Suzuki-Trotter, Feynman-Kac, Correlations
• QFT: Wightman-, Schwinger-, Green- functions, Edge of the Wedge, Reflection Positivity, Field Representation
• Lattice QFT: Lattice formulation of phi^4, Transfer Matrix, Reflection Positivity

IV) Formulating QCD on a lattice

• Flavor extrapolations and staggered fermions
  M. Creutz , hep-lat/0603020

VI) Kadanoff-Wilson-Fischer Renormalization Analysis

• The theoretical background and properties of perfect actions
  P.Hasenfratz , hep-lat/9803027