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.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington Fax: (202) 478-8901
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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