This applies even if you are not taking the class for credit. The Gradebook is available online. Fluid mechanics from particle collisions by M. Orme. In class we talked briefly about the problems of equilibration and the notion that glass is a solid that flows on a long enough timescale. In fact, it does not seem to be true that cathedrals in Europe have windows that are thicker at the bottom than the top due to this effect.
Quantitative calculations show that the timescale for the requisite flow is too long.
An important area of statistical mechanics is using computers to evaluate thermal averages. Here is a recent article that reviews briefly analytic solutions of the two-dimensional Ising model, and in particular the mapping to a system of free fermions which is what enables the analytic solutions. The article has references in it to much earlier work, especially the seminal review article of Schultz, Mattis and Lieb, Rev. Mod. Some historical context and a brief discussion of the way in which the Onsager solution has influenced subsequent developments is given in this article , written on the 50th anniversary of Onsager's solution. Statistical Mechanics on the WWW Link to recent papers on the statistical mechanics section of the condensed matter preprint archive at Los Alamos.