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| Organisers: André-Marie Tremblay
 Massimo Boninsegni
 Michel Côté
 David Sénéchal
 Matthias Troyer
 
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 | May 26 
to June 6, 2008 (Register by February 15, 2008) Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
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| Monday 26 May 2008 
 
| 8h15 -   8h30 | Tremblay | Welcome |  | 8h30 - 10h00 | Tremblay | Short intro to the School, refresher in QM |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 11h30 | Ernzerhof | Introduction to DFT and Density 
functionals |  | 11h30 - 12h00 | Gonze | Abinit code, part 1 |  | 13h30 - 14h30 | Côté, Gonze | Group 1: 
Hands-on training, # 1, Ab init |  | 14h30 - 15h00 | BREAK |  | 15h30 - 16h00 | Côté, Gonze | Group 2: 
Hands-on training, # 1, Ab init |  | 16h00 - 17h30 | POSTERS |  | 17h30 - 18h15 | Gonze | Abinit code, part 2 |  | 18h15 - 19h00 | Côté | DFT + U |  
Tuesday 27 May 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Côté, 
Gonze | Group 2: Hands-on training, # 2, Ab init |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Côté, Gonze | Group 1: 
Hands-on training, # 2, Ab init |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Tremblay | Chapters in Many-Body 
Physics |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Sénéchal | Quantum Cluster 
methods |  
Wednesday 28 May 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Sénéchal | Quantum Cluster methods CPT, VCA, ED |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Troyer | Introduction to Monte Carlo methods, Ergodicity, Detailed balance, biased
sampling, variance estimate |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Côté, Gonze | Group 1: Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Côté, Gonze | Group 2: 
Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init |  
Thursday 29 May 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | White | DMRG |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | White | DMRG |  | 14h45 - 15h30 | Troyer | Introduction to ALPS |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Troyer | Group 1: Hands-on training   
#1, ALPS |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Troyer | Group 2: Hands-on training   
#1, ALPS |  
Friday 30 May 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Boninsegni | Worm algorithm on the lattice |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Boninsegni | Worm algorithm on the continuum |  | 13h30 - 15h00 | Troyer | Group 2: Hands-on training   
#2, ALPS |  | 15h00 - 15h30 | BREAK |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Troyer | Group 1: Hands-on training   
#2, ALPS |  |  |  | Possible Departure for Québec 
City |  
Weekend, no classes 
Monday 2 June 2008    
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Kotliar | DMFT +  LDA |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Schöllwock | Numerical 
Renormalization group, applications to the Kondo problem |  
  | 15h00 - 16h00 | POSTERS |  | 16h00 - 17h00 | Guo | Guest lecture on ab initio 
molecular electronics with non-equilibrium Green
functions |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Schöllwock | Numerical 
Renormalization group, applications to the Kondo problem |  
Tuesday 3 June 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Kotliar | CDMFT |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Schöllwock | Time-dependent DMRG |  | 16h00 - 17h30 | POSTERS |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Schöllwock | Quantum information 
point of view on DMRG and other methods |  
Wednesday 4 2008   
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Jarrell | Hirsch-Fye algorithm |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Jarrell | DCA |  | 14h00 - 15h30 | POSTERS |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Troyer | Group 1: Hands-on training   
#3, ALPS |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Troyer | Group 2: Hands-on training   
#3, ALPS |  
Thursday 5 June 2008 
 
| 8h30 - 10h00 | Werner | Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (weak coupling) |  | 10h00 - 10h30 | BREAK |  | 10h30 - 12h00 | Werner | Continuous-time Quantum Monte 
Carlo (strong coupling) |  
  | 14h00 - 15h00 | Berciu | Guest lecture on polaron 
problems |  | 15h00 - 15h30 | BREAK |  | 15h30 - 17h00 | Troyer | Group 2: Hands-on training   
#4, ALPS |  | 17h00 - 17h30 | BREAK |  | 17h30 - 19h00 | Troyer | Group 1: Hands-on training   
#4, ALPS |  
Friday 6 June 2008 
 
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