Submission deadlines

Course Schedule

Short description 21 Sept. 2025 Project v1.0 12 Oct. 2025 Project v2.0 9 Nov. 2025 Presentations18 Nov. 2025 Presentations 25 Nov. 2025 Presentations 2 Dec. 2025 Presentations 9 Dec. 2025
Until 23:59, 21 Sept. 2025

Deadline for short description

Upload a PDF document to Kooplex into courses/compsimf20_2025.assignments/2025sd introducing your chosen topic and your plans in a concise manner. You will receive feedback that will help with your final submission. (Kooplex tutorial)

Until 23:59, 12 Oct. 2025

Deadline for Project v1.0

Upload a PDF document and appropriate code/notebook files to Kooplex into courses/compsimf20_2025.assignments/2025p1 as your first submission. (Kooplex tutorial)

Until 23:59, 9 Nov. 2025

Deadline for Project v2.0 and response letter

Upload two PDF documents (updated project report and response letter) to Kooplex into courses/compsimf20_2025.assignments/2025p2 as your final submission. (Kooplex tutorial)

12:00-14:00, 18 Nov. 2025

Presentations

Prepare a 10-minute presentation based on your project submissions summarizing your most important results and figures.

Presentations will be held online, on Microsoft Teams.

12:00-14:00, 25 Nov. 2025

Presentations

Prepare a 10-minute presentation based on your project submissions summarizing your most important results and figures.

Presentations will be held online, on Microsoft Teams.

12:00-14:00, 2 Dec. 2025

Presentations

Prepare a 10-minute presentation based on your project submissions summarizing your most important results and figures.

Presentations will be held online, on Microsoft Teams.

12:00-14:00, 9 Dec. 2025

Presentations

Prepare a 10-minute presentation based on your project submissions summarizing your most important results and figures.

Presentations will be held online, on Microsoft Teams.

About the course

Computer Simulations in Physics

How to get a grade

During the semester, you will receive three grades, one for each versions of your project and one for your presentation. Your final grade will be determined as the average of these three grades. (No further examination will be held in the exam period.) Detailed requirements can be found here.

Schedule for 2025/26 Fall semester

During the semester, both online and in person consultation is available upon request. Do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions!

Textbook

Department server

Lecture recordings of 2020

Resources

Books and similar courses

Submissions

Submission requirements

Details on requirements and grading can be found here.

Short description

  • Introduction (most important equations, figures)
  • Background, broader context
  • Motivation (why you chose the topic)
  • Proposed solution (methods and tools you will need)
  • Obstacles (potentional difficulties)
  • Expected results, hypothesis
  • About 1-page long
  • Upload as PDF to Kooplex

Project report

  • Introduction with motivation and theoretical background
  • Methods
  • Results, emphasizing your own contribution
  • Discussion, Conclusion
  • Format (scientific language!)
  • Figures (easily understandable, asthetic figures with legends)
  • References
  • Upload as PDF to Kooplex, with additional code files
  • Grades decay after deadline
Details

Presentation

  • 10-minute long!
  • prepared in English (if possible)
  • appropriate slides
  • about both projects
  • concise
  • special emphasis on own contribution
  • questions about submissions and course material
Templates

Submission examples

Empty Latex project templates

PDF

tex file

bibliography

sample image

Example reports (English)

Lotka-Volterra models

Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem

Projectile motion simulation

Fractal dimension of the Julia set

Example reports (Hungarian)

Kaotikus dinamika

Másodrendű fázisátalakulás az Ising-modellben

Example short descriptions

Atomic motion in a magnetic trap

Double pendulum and deep learning

Path integral on the lattice

Feedback and grades

Results of submissions and detailed feedback can be found here.