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Phase transition lecture notes

Informal Notes on Renormalization and Phase Transitions, which is a set of University of Illinois graduate course lecture notes, is downloadable ( IRG.pdf password = IRG). These notes explain most introductory topics on phase transitions (only static aspects). However, the first order phase transition is not discussed very much.