International Summer School on
   Numerical Methods for Correlated Systems in Condensed Matter
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Organisers:
André-Marie Tremblay
Massimo Boninsegni
Michel Côté
David Sénéchal
Matthias Troyer

Sponsors:

May 26 to June 6, 2008 (Register by February 15, 2008)
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Monday 26 May 2008

  8h15 -   8h30TremblayWelcome
  8h30 - 10h00TremblayShort intro to the School, refresher in QM
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 11h30ErnzerhofIntroduction to DFT and Density functionals
11h30 - 12h00GonzeAbinit code, part 1
13h30 - 14h30Côté, GonzeGroup 1: Hands-on training, # 1, Ab init
14h30 - 15h00             BREAK
15h30 - 16h00Côté, GonzeGroup 2: Hands-on training, # 1, Ab init
16h00 - 17h30             POSTERS
17h30 - 18h15GonzeAbinit code, part 2
18h15 - 19h00CôtéDFT + U

Tuesday 27 May 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Côté, GonzeGroup 2: Hands-on training, # 2, Ab init
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Côté, GonzeGroup 1: Hands-on training, # 2, Ab init
15h30 - 17h00TremblayChapters in Many-Body Physics
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Sénéchal Quantum Cluster methods

Wednesday 28 May 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Sénéchal Quantum Cluster methods CPT, VCA, ED
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Troyer Introduction to Monte Carlo methods, Ergodicity, Detailed balance, biased sampling, variance estimate
15h30 - 17h00Côté, Gonze Group 1: Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Côté, Gonze Group 2: Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init

Thursday 29 May 2008

  8h30 - 10h00White DMRG
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00WhiteDMRG
14h45 - 15h30Troyer Introduction to ALPS
15h30 - 17h00Troyer Group 1: Hands-on training #1, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Troyer Group 2: Hands-on training #1, ALPS

Friday 30 May 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Boninsegni Worm algorithm on the lattice
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00BoninsegniWorm algorithm on the continuum
13h30 - 15h00Troyer Group 2: Hands-on training #2, ALPS
15h00 - 15h30              BREAK
15h30 - 17h00Troyer Group 1: Hands-on training #2, ALPS
Possible Departure for Québec City

Weekend, no classes

Monday 2 June 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Kotliar DMFT + LDA
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00SchöllwockNumerical Renormalization group, applications to the Kondo problem
15h00 - 16h00              POSTERS
16h00 - 17h00Guo Guest lecture on ab initio molecular electronics with non-equilibrium Green functions
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Schöllwock Numerical Renormalization group, applications to the Kondo problem

Tuesday 3 June 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Kotliar CDMFT
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Schöllwock Time-dependent DMRG
16h00 - 17h30              POSTERS
17h30 - 19h00Schöllwock Quantum information point of view on DMRG and other methods

Wednesday 4 2008

  8h30 - 10h00JarrellHirsch-Fye algorithm
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Jarrell DCA
14h00 - 15h30             POSTERS
15h30 - 17h00Troyer Group 1: Hands-on training #3, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Troyer Group 2: Hands-on training #3, ALPS

Thursday 5 June 2008

  8h30 - 10h00Werner Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (weak coupling)
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Werner Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (strong coupling)
14h00 - 15h00 Berciu Guest lecture on polaron problems
15h00 - 15h30             BREAK
15h30 - 17h00Troyer Group 2: Hands-on training #4, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Troyer Group 1: Hands-on training #4, ALPS

Friday 6 June 2008

  9h00 - 12h00             FINAL EXAM