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Host: Rolduc Conference Centre
Homepage: http://www.fz-juelich.de/wsqs/
Email: wsqs@fz-juelich.de
Description:
This Winter School will cover modern quantum simulation techniques and their implementation on
high-performance computers, in particular on parallel systems. The focus 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. 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 gap 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 specialization. In addition, they will get insights into recent software development and implementation issues involved, in particular in the context of high-performance computing.
The Winter School is organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), and Institut für Theoretische Physik III (Universität Stuttgart). It is supported by the Conference Service of the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Date received: August 17, 2001
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