Official description

1. Introduction to Crystalline Solids:
- Broken symmetry and elementary excitations
- Classical models and approximations

2. Crystalline lattice and X-ray diffraction

3. Electron band theory
- Free electron model
- Nearly free electron model
- Tight binding model

4. Lattice vibrations
- Classical normal modes of vibration
- Phonons and thermal properties
- Neutron scattering

5. Electron dynamics in Crystals

6. Interacting electrons and Fermi liquid

7. Anharmonic lattice