| 1 | Free Electron Model | |
| 2 | Crystalline Lattice | |
| 3 | Debye Waller Factor and Incommensurate Structures | |
| 4 | Point Group for Bravais Lattice | Problem set 1 due |
| 5 | Bloch Theorem | |
| 6 | Band Structure | Problem set 2 due |
| 7 | Orthogonalized Plane Wave (OPW) | |
| 8 | Pseudopotential and Augmented-Plane-Wave (APW) | Problem set 3 due |
| 9 | Tight Binding, van Hove Singularity | |
| 10 | Experimental Tests of Band Structure and A Survey of the Periodic Table | Problem set 4 due |
| 11 | Semiconductors: Donors, Acceptors and Excitons | |
| 12 | Semiclassical Dynamics of Electrons, Bloch Oscillation and Quantization of Orbits in a Uniform Magnetic Field | Problem set 5 due |
| 13 | de Haas-van Alphen Effect and Quantum Hall Effect | |
| 14 | Quantum Hall Effect and Edge States | Problem set 6 due |
| 15 | Electron-electron Interaction: Hartree-Fock Approximation | |
| 16 | Exchange Energy for Jellium | Problem set 7 due |
| 17 | Density Functional Theory | |
| 18 | Hubbard Model, Screening and Plasmons | Problem set 8 due |
| 19 | Phonons | |
| 20 | Electron-phonon Coupling and Electron Lifetime | Problem set 9 due |
| 21 | Attraction by Exchanging Phonons | Problem set 10 due |
| 22 | The Cooper Instability and the BCS Wavefunction | |
| 23 | The Bogoliubov Quasiparticles | |
| 24 | Ginzburg Landau Free Energy, Meissner Effect and Flux Quantization | Problem set 11 due |