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Organisers:
André-Marie Tremblay
Michel Côté
Gabriel Kotliar
Roger Melko
David Sénéchal

Sponsors:

U. de Sherbrooke

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PiTP

Calcul Quebec

Calcul Canada

May 30 to June 10, 2016
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Monday May 30, 2016
  8:15 C.Spino, A.-M. TremblayWelcome
  8:30 A.-M. TremblayShort intro to the School. Quantum Materials
  9:00 M. Côté Introduction to DFT and Density Functionals
10:00              BREAK
10:30 A.-M. TremblayMany-Body refresher: Density matrix, Second quantization
11:30 X. Gonze Abinit code, part 1
12:00              LUNCH
14:00              POSTER SESSION
15:00 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 1
16:00 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 1
17:00              BREAK
17:30 X. Gonze Abinit code, part 2
18:15A.-M. TremblayMany-Body refresher: Evolution operators, Green functions
19:00              DINNER

Tuesday May 31, 2016
  8:30 A.-M. TremblayMany-Body Refresher: Spectral weight, Self-Energy
  9:15 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 2
10:00              BREAK
10:30 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 2
12:00              LUNCH
14:00              POSTER SESSION
15:30A.-M. TremblayMany-Body Refresher: Anderson Impurity, Coherent state functional integrals
17:00              BREAK
17:30 I. Garate Topological Insulators
19:00              DINNER

Wednesday June 1, 2016
  8:30 D. SénéchalDynamical Mean-Field Theory(DMFT)
10:00              BREAK
10:30D. SénéchalQuantum Cluster Methods
12:00              LUNCH
15:30 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 3
17:00              BREAK
17:30 M. Côté, X. Gonze Hands-on training: Abinit # 3
19:00              DINNER

Thursday June 2, 2016
  8:30 A.-M. TremblayMany-Body refresher: Source fields, functionals, general many-body problem
10:00              BREAK
10:30J. GukelbergerIntroduction to Monte Carlo methods, Ergodicity, Detailed balance, biased sampling, variance estimate. A few words about ALPS
12:00              LUNCH
14:00O. ParcolletModel Hamiltonians, Introduction to TRIQS
15:30O. Parcollet,
P. Seth
Hands-on training: TRIQS # 1
17:00              BREAK
17:30O. Parcollet,
P. Seth
Hands-on training: TRIQS # 1
19:00              DINNER

Friday June 3, 2016
  8:30 R. MelkoQuantum Monte Carlo, SSE, loop updates
10:00              BREAK
10:30 A. Del Maestro Worm Algorithms
12:00              LUNCH
15:30O. Parcollet,
P. Seth
Hands-on training: TRIQS # 2
17:00              BREAK
17:30O. Parcollet,
P. Seth
Hands-on training: TRIQS # 2
19:00              DINNER

Weekend, no classes

Monday June 6, 2016
  8:30 Ph. WernerContinuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (weak coupling)
10:00              BREAK
10:30 F. Bruneval GW method
12:00              LUNCH
15:30M. Côté,
F. Bruneval
Hands-on training: Abinit # 4
17:00              BREAK
17:30M. Côté,
F. Bruneval
Hands-on training: Abinit # 4
19:00              DINNER

Tuesday June 7, 2016
  8:30 G. KotliarIntroduction to ab initio methods for correlated materials. 
10:00              BREAK
10:30G. KotliarIntroduction continued 
12:00              LUNCH
15:30C.H. YeeWien2k tutorial
17:00              BREAK
17:30K. HauleIntroduction to the  DMFT -LAPW code I 
19:00              DINNER

Wednesday June 8, 2016
  8:30 Ph. WernerContinuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (strong coupling)
10:00              BREAK
10:30K. HauleIntroduction and DMFT -LAPW hands-on training #1 
12:00              LUNCH
14:30 D. Bergeron Hands-on training: analytical continuation OmegaMaxEnt
15:30K. HauleDMFT -LAPW hands-on training # 2
17:00              BREAK
17:30K. HauleDMFT -LAPW hands-on training # 2
19:00              DINNER

Thursday June 9, 2016
  8:30 U. Schollwöck Density-Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG)
10:00            BREAK
10:30 U. Schollwöck Quantum information point of view on DMRG and other methods
12:00              LUNCH
15:30 Miles Stoudenmire DMRG software and hands-on iTensor
17:00             BREAK
17:30 Miles Stoudenmire DMRG software and hands-on iTensor
19:00              DINNER

Friday June 10, 2016
  8:30             FINAL EXAM
11:30             DEPARTURE

Notes

*: Speaker to be confirmed
1. There are 30-minute breaks between lectures
2. Lunch is served at 12:00
3. Dinner is served at 19:00, except on the first nice day of the week when a BBQ will be served outside