Welcome to the homepage of the course "Stastical Physics and the Ising model", taught at Nesin Mathematics Village from August 17 to August 29, 2026 by Paul Melotti and Mendes Oulamara, as part of the Probability in Turkey 2026 summer school.

A summary of the content, with exercises and research subjects for the second week, is available here.

The following are handwritten lecture notes of a masters course given in Orsay from 2023 to 2025, that serve as reference for some parts of the course: chapter 0 (introduction), chapter 1 (Ising's model), chapter 2 (nontrivial phase transition), chapter 3 (infinite volume measures), chapter 4 (random currents), chapter 5 (the random cluster model), chapter 6 (Kac-Ward formula)