NIC organises Winter School on Quantum Simulations of Complex Many-Body Systems: From Theory to Algorithms

Jülich 15 January 2002 This Winter School is held at the Rolduc Conference Centre in Kerkrade, The Netherlands from February 25 to March 1, 2002. It will cover modern quantum simulation techniques and their implementation on high-performance computers, in particular on parallel systems. The focus clearly is on numerical methods which are tailored to treat large quantum systems with many coupled degrees of freedom ranging from superfluid Helium to chemical reactions.

The initiative continues a recently lauched series of schools and conferences in Computational Science organised by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). Among others, the following topics will be covered:

  • Diffusion and Green's function Monte Carlo
  • Path integral Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics
  • Car-Parrinello / ab initio molecular dynamics
  • Real-time quantum dynamics for large systems
  • Lattice and continuum algorithms
  • Exchange statistics for Bosons and Fermions / sign problem
  • Parallel numerical techniques and tools
  • Numerical integration and random numbers

This strongly interdisciplinary School aims at bridging three "gaps" in the vast field of large-scale quantum simulations: the first one between chemistry and physics, the second one between typical graduate courses in these fields and state-of-the-art research, and finally the one between the Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics communities.

The participants - being mostly graduate students, postdocs as well as young researchers in the area of theoretical/computational physics and chemistry - are expected to have basic knowledge of quantum, classical, and statistical mechanics. They will benefit from this School by learning about recent methodological advances within and outside their field of specialisation. In addition, they will get insights into recent software development and implementation issues involved, in particular in the context of high-performance computing.

The programme with list of speakers and timetable may be found on the home page of the Winter School at http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs.

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