Content:
Non-equilibrium thermodyanmics (Entropy production, Onsager relations), causality and fluctuations, stochastic processes (Markov processes, Master equation, Langevin and Fokker-Planck equation), kinetic theory, phase transitions (Landau theory, Gaussian fluctuations, correlation functions, renormalization theory), theory of liquids, hydrodynamic and elasticity theory.
For students who have attended the course Advanced Statistical Mechanics
Literature:
Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, de Groot and Mazur,
The Fokker-Planck Equation, Risken
Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry, N. G. van Kampen