Cornell Theory Center

NATO Advanced Study Institute:
Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
in Physics and Chemistry

July 13 - 24, 1998
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York


Additional funding provided by NSF, CECAM and Cornell University

Program

During the first two days the lectures will be in B14 Hollister Hall. All other lectures will be held in 700 Clark Hall. All computer sessions will be in the training facility in 471 Rhodes Hall.

Sunday 12 July 1998

19:00 - 21:00: Reception in sky lounge on top floor of high rise 1.

Monday 13 July 1998

07:30 - 08:45: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

08:45 - 09:00: Kalos, Cornell Theory Center, Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00 - 10:00: Nightingale, Basics and QMC-statistical mechanics overlap (I)
10:00 - 11:00: De Raedt, Stochastic Diagonalization (I)
11:00 - 11:30: Break in Upson lounge
11:30 - 12:30: Scalettar, Quantum Monte Carlo for lattice bosons (I)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Mascagni, Tutorial on pseudo- and quasi-random numbers
15:00 - 16:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Tuesday 14 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Nightingale, Basics and QMC-statistical mechanics overlap (II)
10:00 - 11:00: Fahy, Variational Monte Carlo in solids (I)
11:00 - 11:30: Break in Founder's Room, Annabel Taylor Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Scalettar, Quantum Monte Carlo for lattice bosons (II)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Umrigar, Wave function optimization; Metropolis Monte Carlo (I)
15:00 - 16:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Wednesday 15 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Nightingale, Basics and QMC-statistical mechanics overlap (III)
10:00 - 11:00: De Raedt, Stochastic Diagonalization (II)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Ceperley, Path-integral Monte Carlo (I)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Umrigar, Wave function optimization; Metropolis Monte Carlo (II)
15:00 - 16:00: Senatore, Response functions from quantum Monte Carlo (I)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Thursday 16 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Doll, Real-time dynamics (I)
10:00 - 11:00: Ceperley, Path-integral Monte Carlo (II)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Fahy, Variational Monte Carlo in solids (II)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Mitas, Diffusion Monte Carlo (I)
15:00 - 16:00: Scalettar, Quantum Monte Carlo for lattice bosons (III)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Friday 17 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Doll, Real-time dynamics (II)
10:00 - 11:00: Ceperley, Path-integral Monte Carlo (III)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Kalos, Fermion Monte Carlo (I)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Mitas, Diffusion Monte Carlo (II)
15:00 - 16:00: Senatore, Response functions from quantum Monte Carlo (II)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

18:45 - 21:00: Banquet in Stadtler Hotel

Saturday 18 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

11:30 - 12:30: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

12:30 - 18:00: Tour of Wagner vineyards and walk in Upper Treman gorge
19:00 - 20.30 Picnic in Townhouse Community Center, North campus

Monday 20 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Carlson, Monte Carlo Methods in Nuclear Physics (I)
10:00 - 11:00: Ceperley, Path-integral Monte Carlo (IV)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Baroni/Moroni, Diffusion Monte Carlo without branching (I)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Kalos, Fermion Monte Carlo (II)
15:00 - 16:00: Muramatsu, Quantum Monte Carlo for Lattice Fermions (I)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Tuesday 21 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Bachelet, Phase separation in the Hubbard model: a fixed-node Green's Function Monte Carlo study (I)
10:00 - 11:00: Carlson, Monte Carlo Methods in Nuclear Physics (II)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Doll, Real-time dynamics (III)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Muramatsu, Quantum Monte Carlo for Lattice Fermions (II)
15:00 - 16:00: Zhang, Constrained Path Quantum Monte Carlo for Fermions (I)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Wednesday 22 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Bernu, Evaluation by Path Integral Monte Carlo of exchange frequencies of two-dimensional 3He lattices on graphite (I)
10:00 - 11:00: Carlson, Monte Carlo Methods in Nuclear Physics (III)
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Baroni/Moroni, Diffusion Monte Carlo without branching (II)
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Muramatsu, Quantum Monte Carlo for Lattice Fermions (III)
15:00 - 16:00: Zhang, Constrained Path Quantum Monte Carlo for Fermions (II)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Thursday 23 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Bachelet, Phase separation in the Hubbard model: a fixed-node Green's Function Monte Carlo study (II)
10:00 - 11:00: Freeman, Energy Estimators and the Convergence Rates of Fourier Path Integral Methods
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Reynolds, Algorithms for Computing Matrix Elements by QMC
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Chester, Quantum Monte Carlo studies of liquid and solid helium
15:00 - 16:00: Moroni/Baroni, Diffusion Monte Carlo without branching(III)
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall

Friday 24 July 1998

07:30 - 09:00: Breakfast at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

09:00 - 10:00: Bernu, Evaluation by Path Integral Monte Carlo of exchange frequencies of two-dimensional 3He lattices on graphite (II)
10:00 - 11:00: Sorella, Green's Function Monte Carlo with Stochastic Reconfiguration: an effective remedy for the sign problem disease
11:00 - 11:30: Break on 7th FLoor of Clark Hall
11:30 - 12:30: Gubernatis, Constrained Path Monte Carlo: Issues and Applications
12:30 - 14:00: Lunch at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

14:00 - 15:00: Koch, Correlations in the doped Fullerides
16:00 - 16:30: Break on 4th floor of Rhodes Hall
16:30 - 18:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall
18:00 - 20:00: Dinner at Okenshields in Willard Straight Hall

20:00 - 22:00: Computer Lab in 471 Rhodes Hall


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