In this handbook, I collect the basic (and eventually upgraded) PHP scripts used for building the AMIDAS website (this http URL), an online interactive simulation/data analysis system for direct Dark . . . . .

We present 18 Introductory Lectures on K-Theory covering its basic three branches, namely topological, analytic (K-Homology) and Higher Algebraic K-Theory, 6 lectures on each branch. The skeleton of t . . . . .

Contents: Introduction; Magnetic Insulators; Metals; Magnetic impurities; Other magnetic phenomena; Connections to macroscopics.

These lectures discuss the use of Green’s functions in understanding con- densation in non-equilibrium systems. The lectures thus have two aims, conceptual and technical. The conceptual aim of these . . . . .

Contents:Quantisation of electromagnetism; Quantum electrodynamics in other gauges; Jaynes Cummings model; Density matrices for 2 level systems; Resonance Fluorescence; Quantum stochastic methods; Cav . . . . .

Symmetry breaking and quantum correlations in finite systems: studies of quantum dots and ultracold Bose gases and related nuclear and chemical methods.

This pedagogical review presents the Shell Correction Method (SCM) and variants thereof, appropriate for describing shape deformations and electronic shell effects, energetics and decay pathways of me . . . . .

Orbital-free (OF) methods promise significant speed-up of computations based on density functional theory (DFT). In this field, the development of accurate kinetic-energy density functionals remains a . . . . .

A basis for understanding and modelling glassy behaviour in martensitic alloys and relaxor ferroelectrics is discussed from the perspective of spin glasses.

In these notes I review the basic concepts of the effects of interactions on quantum particles. I focuss here mostly on the case of fermions, but several aspects of interacting bosons are mentioned as . . . . .