which will be a course of 8 lectures with the following rough layout:

L1: Introduction, History, Basic Concepts

L2: Statistical Mechanics of Isolated Molecules, Part 1

L3: Statistical Mechanics of Isolated Molecules, Part 2

L4: The Canonical Rate Constant

L5. The Microcanonical Rate Constant: TST, RRKM theory

L6. The Master Equation

L7. Collisional Energy Transfer

L8. Applications