[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Announcement of computational summer school in Illinois July 9-19

Dear group members (students and postdocs), You should tell me if you are interested in attending at all (postdocs too!) because we need to request travel assistance ASAP because it is AWARDED in the order it is received, so if we send the apps TOMORROW it is very probable you can attend to this excellent QMC tutorial for free: Let me know the head-count, Alan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Burkhard Militzer <militzer(a)gl.ciw.edu> Date: Feb 19, 2007 1:59 PM Subject: Announcement of computational summer school in Illinois July 9-19 To: alan(a)aspuru.com Cc: Amy Young <amyoung(a)uiuc.edu> Dear Alan, Congratulations to your job. I did not know that you moved to Harvard. We are planning to hold a summer school on "Quantum Monte Carlo from Minerals and Materials to Molecules", July 9-19, 2007 at the University of Illinois. The aim is to bring together advanced undergraduates, graduate students and post-docs, faculty, and research scientists from the fields of geophysics, physics, chemistry, as well as materials science to learn about QMC calculations and their applications. The school will have lectures in the morning and interactive laboratories in the afternoon. Preliminary list of presenters: Dario Alfe, University College London Michele Casula, University of Illinois David Ceperley, University of Illinois Ronald Cohen, Carnegie Institution of Washington Neil Drummond, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Claudia Filippi, Universiteit Leiden Richard Hennig, Cornell University Jeongnim Kim, University of Illinois Pablo Lopez Rios, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge Burkhard Militzer, Carnegie Institution of Washington Lubos Mitas, North Carolina State University Lars Stixrude, University of Michigan Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University Renata Wentzcovitch, University of Minnesota Shiwei Zhang, College of William and Mary Preliminary list of topics to be covered: First principles calculation in geophysics Equations of state, elasticity and thermal properties of solids Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods Variational Monte Carlo Diffusion Monte Carlo QMC applications in geophysics Pseudopotential generation Wavefunction optimization methods Wavefunction using pfaffians and backflow Path integral Monte Carlo Auxiliary field methods Please consult the website http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerschool/2007/qmc for up-to-date information on the instructors, topics and application materials. We would like your opinions on the workshop topics to make sure that the needs of the prospective students and the QMC community will be met. Please take a few minutes to respond to our email. How many people at your institution could attend during this time period, assuming that they are not limited by funding? (Note that there will be a $75 registration fee. Housing will be provided at no cost for off-campus participants, and particpants can apply for travel support.) What topics would be essential or desirable to include for these participants? Thank you, Organizing Committee: David Ceperley, Burkhard Militzer, Ronald Cohen, Richard Martin and Jeongnim Kim This school is supported by NSF-EAR 05-30282, NSF-EAR 05-30643 and the Materials Computation Center NSF DMR-03-25939 ITR. --------------------------------------------------------- Burkhard Militzer Tel: (202) 478-8995 Carnegie Institution of Washington Fax: (202) 478-8901 5251 Broad Branch Road, NW militzer(a)gl.ciw.edu Washington, DC 20015 http://militzer.gl.ciw.edu -- Alan Aspuru-Guzik Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)384-8188 Group URL: http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu