Getting the most out of lectures

The lectures closely follow Ashcroft and Mermin. I suggest that before each lecture you read the suggested part of the text.
The lecture is designed to highlight the key ideas, concepts, equations, and experimental results. There is insufficient time to explain everything in detail, particularly to go through every step of the algebra in every derivation. If you are so inclined you should do this by yourself.
There is also no point in me writing out lectures notes which just say the same thing as what the text says.
You should then re-read the relevant part of the text after the lecture.

Todays lecture will be on Landau's Fermi liquid theory of metals and quasi-particles. The relevant parts of the text are pages 345-351.

My final lectures will be on Superconductivity, covering all of chapter 34.