{"id":436,"date":"2013-11-23T22:14:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2019-10-09T22:23:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T22:23:53","slug":"talk-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/talk-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/talk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4550\" src=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/talk-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/talk-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/talk.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Apuan Alps Centre for Physics in Vallico Sotto opened for business in 2004. Here are the slides for pretty much every talk about quantum Monte Carlo and related topics that has ever been given there since that time. Enjoy!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps IX &#8211; 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Water clusters, ice, and bulk liquid: improving ab initio structure and energetics&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/alfe_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ron Cohen<\/span> (ronald.cohen at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo simulations on silicate perovskite and other high pressure phases&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/cohen_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Gareth Conduit<\/span> (gjc29 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Pseudizing the Hamiltonian&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/conduit_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Csaba Daday<\/span> (dadaycs at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Wave function embedding methods and excited states: a guide to the perplexed&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/daday_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrea Droghetti<\/span> (drogheta at tcd.ie)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Spin-crossover molecules: puzzling systems for electronic structure methods&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/droghetti_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (n.drummond at lancaster.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Electronic and vibrational properties of monolayer hexagonal indium chalcogenides&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/drummond_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Edgar Engel<\/span> (eae32 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Anharmonic nuclear motion and the relative stability of hexagonal and cubic ice&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/engel_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Leonardo Guidoni<\/span> (l.guidoni at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Geometries and properties of (bio)molecules by quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/guidoni_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qmc14p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6178\" src=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qmc14p.jpg\" alt=\"qmc14p\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qmc14p.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/vallico.net\/casinoqmc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/qmc14p-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Nic Harrison<\/span> (nicholas.harrison at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Describing strong interactions &#8211; some outstanding problems&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Kenta Hongo<\/span> (kenta_hongo at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC applications to noncovalent interactions in cyclohexasilane dimers&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/hongo_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Korth<\/span> (martin.korth at uni-ulm.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;On the hunt for molecular organic battery materials&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/korth_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Jonathan Lloyd-Williams<\/span> (jhl50 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;DFT and QMC calculations of solid molecular hydrogen&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/lloydwilliams_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pierre-Francois Loos<\/span> (loos at rsc.anu.edu.au)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Chemistry in a 1D world&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/loos_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Multideterminant compression algorithm for quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/lopezrios_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Embedded atom into jellium sphere&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/maezono_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Fionn Malone<\/span> (f.malone13 at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Parallel strategies for FCIQMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/malone_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mariapia Marchi<\/span> (marchi at esteco.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Using modeFRONTIER to automate DFT and QMC calculations: application to liquid hydrogen&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/marchi_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Bartomeu Monserrat Sanchez<\/span> (bm418 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;An overview of vibrations in solids&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/monserratsanchez_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Elaheh Mostaani<\/span> (emostaani at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Binding energy of bilayer graphene (updated) and electronic properties of oligoynes&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/mostaani_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Xenon oxides under pressure&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/needs_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Carlo Pierleoni<\/span> (carlo.pierleoni at aquila.infn.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Liquid-liquid phase transition in high pressure hydrogen: new predictions from CEIMC and comparison with DFT&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Tom Poole<\/span> (thomas.poole10 at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Algorithmic differentiation of diffusion Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Sandro Sorella<\/span> (sorella at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Ab initio simulation of liquid water by quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/sorella_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">James Spencer<\/span> (j.spencer at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;An overview of the HANDE QMC project&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/spencer_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alex Thom<\/span> (ajwt3 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;FCIQMC and finite electron gases&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/thom_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;High-throughput QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/towler_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n(Missing 5 slides near the end &#8211; to be reconstructed.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrt32 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Pseudopotentials for correlated electron systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/trail_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Cyrus Umrigar<\/span> (cyrusumrigar at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Semistochastic quantum Monte Carlo: a hybrid of exact diagonalization and quantum Monte Carlo methods&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/umrigar_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Tack Uyeda<\/span> (tueeeda at jaist.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Estimation of exchange interaction of SrMnO3 by QMC&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">William Vigor<\/span> (w.vigor11 at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Unloading the dice: minimising biases in full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/vigor_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ching-Ming Wei<\/span> (cmw at phys.sinica.edu.tw)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Binding energy of 2D materials using QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_14\/wei_tti2014.pdf\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps VIII &#8211; 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Graphene on Ir(111): growth and thermodynamics from combined experimental and theoretical methods&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alberto Ambrosetti<\/span> (ambrosetti at fhi-berlin.mpg.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Long range correlation energy from isotropically damped Quantum harmonic oscillators&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/ambrosetti_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Sam Azadi<\/span> (s.azadi at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo study of high-pressure solid hydrogen&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/azadi_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Anouar Benali<\/span> (abenali at alcf.anl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of many-body van der Waals forces in rare gas crystals and biomolecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/benali_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pascal Bugnion<\/span> (pob24 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Spins, superfluidity, and ultracold atomic gases&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/bugnion_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mauro Caus\u00e0<\/span> (mauro.causa at unina.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Correlated maximum probability domains in crystals&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/causa_tti2013.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Gareth Conduit<\/span> (gjc29 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Concurrent materials design&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13s\/conduit_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (password protected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Deible<\/span> (mjd87 at pitt.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo studies of water clusters and water-acene complexes&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/deible_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrea Droghetti<\/span> (drogheta at tcd.ie)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;A DFT+model Hamiltonian approach to zero-bias transport in nanostructures: work in progress&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/droghetti_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (n.drummond at lancaster.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Electronic structure of two-dimensional crystals of hexagonal boron nitride&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/drummond_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Elif Ertekin<\/span> (ertekin at illinois.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC for point defects in semiconductors and wide-band gap oxides&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/ertekin_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (wmc.foulkes at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Forces and correlated sampling in DMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/foulkes_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Gillan<\/span> (m.gillan at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo benchmarks for weak non-covalent interactions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/gillan_tti2013.pptx\">PPTX<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Hennig<\/span> (rhennig at cornell.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Computational discovery and design of materials for energy technologies and electronic devices&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Kenta Hongo<\/span> (kenta_hongo at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Finite-size effects in diffusion Monte Carlo simulations of para-diiodobenzene&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13s\/hongo_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (password required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ken Jordan<\/span> (jordan at imap.pitt.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo studies of correlation-bound anions and of organic diradicals&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/jordan_tti2013a.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><i>&#8220;Proton disorder in ice&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pierre-Francois Loos<\/span> (loos at rsc.anu.edu.au)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Uniform electron gases: electrons on a ring&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/loos_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Lyle<\/span> (mjl78 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Low density nanocrystalline alumina&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13s\/lyle_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (password protected)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Studies of electron-hole systems using DMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/maezono_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Natalia Matveeva<\/span> (matveeva.na at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Localization of an impurity in a bilayer system of dipoles&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/matveeva_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Bartomeu Monserrat Sanchez<\/span> (bm418 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;White dwarf cooling: electron-phonon coupling and the metallization of solid helium&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/sanchez_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Elaheh Mostaani<\/span> (emostaani at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Binding energy of bilayer graphene&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/mostaani_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Tim Mueller<\/span> (tmueller at jhu.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo for materials design&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/mueller_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Decomposition and terapascal phases of water ice&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/needs_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Luke Shulenburger<\/span> (lshulen at sandia.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Status of DMC for condensed phases&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/shulenburger_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">James Spencer<\/span> (j.spencer at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo and coupled cluster Monte Carlo: a framework for stochastic quantum chemistry.&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/spencer_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alex Thom<\/span> (ajwt3 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Linked stochastic coupled cluster theory&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/wcasinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/thom_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alexandre Tkatchenko<\/span> (tkatchen at fhi-berlin.mpg.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Explicit many-body van der Waals corrections to DFT, and how QMC can help to develop them&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/tkatchenko_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Tack Uyeda<\/span> (tueeeda at jaist.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Ohmic contact on diamond semiconductors&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/uyeda_tti2013.pptx\">PPTX<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">William Vigor<\/span> (w.vigor11 at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Accelerating Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/vigor_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Anatole von Lilienfeld<\/span> (anatole at alcf.anl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Preaching on first principles views on chemical compound space, atom-centered potentials, and statistical learning&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/lilienfeld_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lucas Wagner<\/span> (lkwagner at illinois.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Can we understand the high-T<sub>c<\/sub> superconducting cuprates from first principles?&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_13\/wagner_tti2013.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps VII &#8211; 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Gillan<\/span> (m.gillan at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;DFT troubles with water? QMC to the rescue!&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/gillan_tti2012.pptx\">PPTX<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lucas Wagner<\/span> (lkwagner at illinois.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Correlations in strongly-correlated materials&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/wagner_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Benoit Braida<\/span> (braida at lct.jussieu.fr)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;A valence bond \/ quantum Monte Carlo study of &#8216;pancake&#8217; bonding&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/braida_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Sandro Sorella<\/span> (sorella at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Recent results on the Hubbard model by quantum Monte Carlo and petaflops supercomputers&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/sorella_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (wmc.foulkes at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Density matrix full-configuration interaction QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/foulkes_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">James Spencer<\/span> (j.spencer at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The sign problem in FCIQMC and other short stories&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/spencer_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti2\/photos\/2012d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/center><span style=\"color: green;\">Alex Thom<\/span> (a.thom at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Stochastic coupled cluster theory&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/thom_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Bressanini<\/span> (dario.bressanini at uninsubria.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Fishing for positronic compounds&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/bressanini_tti2012.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mariapia Marchi<\/span> (marchi at esteco.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;ESTECO&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/marchi_tti2012a.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><i>&#8220;Optimization tools beyond QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12s\/marchi_tti2012b.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (password required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">James Shepherd<\/span> (js615 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;A full configuration interaction (quantum Monte Carlo) perspective on the 3D homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/shepherd_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alston Misquitta<\/span> (am592 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Finite-size effects in molecule-surface adsorption&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/misquitta_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Korth<\/span> (martin.korth at uni-ulm.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Computational high-throughput screening of advanced battery electrolyte solvents&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/korth_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti2\/photos\/2012f.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/center><span style=\"color: green;\">Bartomeu Monserrat-Sanchez<\/span> (bm418 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Phonon wave functions and electron-phonon interactions in semiconductors&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/monserratsanchez_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrea Droghetti<\/span> (drogheta at tcd.ie)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;First principles studies of spin-crossover molecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/droghetti_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ching-Ming Wei<\/span> (cmw at phys.sinica.edu.tw)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Materials simulations using quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/wei_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti2\/photos\/2012j.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/center><span style=\"color: green;\">Sebastiano Saccani<\/span> (ssaccani at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Soft-potential supersolids&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/saccani_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Saverio Moroni<\/span> (saveriomoroni at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Two-dimensional 3He&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/moroni_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dominik Domin<\/span> (domindominik at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Potential energy surfaces with quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12s\/domin_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] &#8211; (password required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Massively-parallel QMC calculations: CPUs, GPUs, and DMC molecular dynamics&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/towler_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti2\/photos\/2012b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/center><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;GPGPU acceleration of CASINO blip routine&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12s\/maezono_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] (password required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alfe<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Thermal and electrical conductivity of the Earth&#8217;s core&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/alfe_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (n.drummond at lancaster.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of the Fermi liquid parameters of the 2D homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/drummond_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Stefano Baroni<\/span> (baroni at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Classical transition rates and quantum tunnelling splitting from path-integral Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Phase diagram of the symmetric electron-hole bilayer&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/lopezrios_tti2012a.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><i>&#8220;Framework for constructing generic Jastrow correlation factors&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/lopezrios_tti2012b.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti2\/photos\/2012h.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/center><span style=\"color: green;\">Sam Azadi<\/span> (s.azadi at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo study of high-pressure solid molecular hydrogen&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/azadi_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pascal Bugnion<\/span> (pob24 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The Geminal-Jastrow wave function in bulk materials&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/bugnion_tti2012.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Kenta Hongo<\/span> (kenta_hongo at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;A quantum Monte Carlo study of noncovalent interactions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_12\/hongo_tti2012.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No conference<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps VI &#8211; 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Surface free energies and absolute rate of desorption from quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Claudio Amovilli<\/span> (amovilli at dcci.unipi.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Chemistry of nitrosamine: a QMC study of the thermal de-NOx process&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/amovilli_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo formulation of volume polarization in dielectric continuum theory&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/amovilli_poster_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Michal Bajdich<\/span> (bajdichm at ornl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Spherical jellium with impurity, and, self-healing QMC for atoms and molecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/bajdich_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Bressanini<\/span> (dario.bressanini at uninsubria.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Boranes and azaborane with QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/bressanini_tti2010.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Michele Casula<\/span> (casula at cpht.polytechnique.fr)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo methods as an exact route to correlated regimes in 1D systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/casula_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Hai-Ping Cheng<\/span> (cheng at qtp.ufl.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Studying metal clusters by quantum Monte Carlo method&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/cheng_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;First-principles study of a positron immersed in an electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/drummond_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Elif Ertekin<\/span> (elif1 at mit.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Confessions of a materials scientist: defect behaviour of strontium titanate&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/ertekin_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (wmc.foulkes at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Experiment with Alavi&#8217;s FCI-QMC method&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/foulkes_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Rex Godby<\/span> (rwg3 at york.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum transport: electron-electron and electron-phonon effects&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/godby_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Hennig<\/span> (rhennig at cornell.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo for point defects in Si and ZnO semiconductors&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Korth<\/span> (mkorth at muenster.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Accurate thermochemistry with fixed-node diffusion Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/korth_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Henry Krakauer<\/span> (hxkrak at wm.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Auxiliary-field QMC for quantum chemistry: recent progress and open issues&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/krakauer_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Jaron Krogel<\/span> (jkrogel2 at illinois.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Hunting anomalous excitations in bcc helium-4&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/krogel_tti2010.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Robert Lee<\/span> (rml38 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Random errors and outliers in QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/lee_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;VMC sampling efficiency&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/lopez_rios_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Arne L\u00fcchow<\/span> (luechow at rwth-aachen.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Efficient multi-reference DMC and insight from QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/luechow_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Weak interactions treated by DMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/maezono_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mariapia Marchi<\/span> (marchi at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The spin susceptibility enhancement in wide AlAs quantum wells&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/marchi_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alston Misquitta<\/span> (am592 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Many-body dispersion interactions between semiconducting wires&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/misquitta_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Saverio Moroni<\/span> (saveriomoroni at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Energy derivatives in fixed-node QMC: unbiased estimates with finite variance&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/moroni_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Pseudopotentials for QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/needs_ppots_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<i>&#8220;Materials at terapascal pressures&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/needs_pressure_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Fernando Reboredo<\/span> (reboredofa at ornl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;New developments in self-healing diffusion Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n(NOT AVAILABLE &#8211; here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv4.library.cornell.edu\/PS_cache\/arxiv\/pdf\/1008\/1008.0359v1.pdf\">preprint<\/a> on the same subject.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Katie Schwarz<\/span> (kaschwar at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo backflow calculations of benzene dimers&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/schwarz_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Gaetano Senatore<\/span> (g.m.senatore at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Valley susceptibility of quasi-2D electrons in AlAs quantum wells&#8221;<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Priyanka Seth<\/span> (ps479 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC studies of the first-row atoms and ions, continued..&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/seth_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Simone Taioli<\/span> (ucfbsta at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;SURPRISES: when ab initio meets statistics in extended systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/taioli_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The magic of moving nodes&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/towler_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<i>Accompanying video<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/towler_movie_tti2010.gif\">GIF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrtrail at jaist.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Some estimates in variational quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/trail_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Norm Tubman<\/span> (tubman1 at llnl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Release node for small molecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/tubman_tti2010.pptx\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lucas Wagner<\/span> (lkwagner at mit.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Open source quantum Monte Carlo and an application to metal hydride clusters&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_10\/wagner_tti2010.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps V &#8211; 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Water graphene binding energy curve from diffusion Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/alfe_qmcitaa_09.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">George Booth<\/span> (ghb24 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo in a discrete space&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/booth_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n[<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/booth_movie1_qmcitaa_09.gif\">MOVIE 1<\/a>], [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/booth_movie2_qmcitaa_09.gif\">MOVIE 2<\/a>], [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/booth_movie3_qmcitaa_09.gif\">MOVIE 3<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Michel Caffarel<\/span> (michel.caffarel at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;A new type of trial wave function for electronic structure calculations with QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/caffarel_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Michele Casula<\/span> (casula at cpht.polytechnique.fr)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Hexatic and mesoscopic phases in the 2D quantum Coulomb system&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/casula_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Roberto Dovesi<\/span> (roberto.dovesi at unito.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;State of the art in the ab initio treatment of crystalline solids with a local basis set. The case of the CRYSTAL code, and its CRYSCOR son.&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/dovesi_qmcitaa_09_1.ppt\">PPT 1<\/a>], [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/dovesi_qmcitaa_09_2.pdf\">PDF 2<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Quasiparticle effective mass of the 2D homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/drummond_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ken Esler<\/span> (esler at uiuc.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Recent developments in QMC for periodic systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/esler_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (wmc.foulkes at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Point defects and diffusion in alumina&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/foulkes_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Gareth Griffiths<\/span> (gigg2 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Post-cotunnite phase of TeO<sub>2<\/sub> from random structure searching&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/griffiths_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Korth<\/span> (mkorth at muenster.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;&#8216;Mindless&#8217; QMC benchmarking&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/korth_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Krupicka<\/span> (chemmakr at savba.sk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Comparison of QMC and ab initio methods for eight constitutional isomers of C<sub>4<\/sub>H<sub>6<\/sub>&#8220;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/krupicka_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Robert Lee<\/span> (rml38 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC and the 1d electron liquid&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/lee_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The Jastrow factor&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/lopez_rios_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;DMC study of an atom immersed in a jellium sphere&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/maezono_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mariapia Marchi<\/span> (marchi at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Resonating Valence Bond wave function with molecular orbitals: application to diatomic molecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/marchi_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alston Misquitta<\/span> (am592 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;The dispersion energy: an introduction and some surprises&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/misquitta_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrew Morris<\/span> (ajm255 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;BEC-BCS crossover in ultracold atomic gasses within Quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/morris_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Applications of ab initio random structure searching&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/needs_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Norbert Nemec<\/span> (nn245 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Diffusion Monte Carlo: exponentially inefficient for large systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/nemec_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Priyanka Seth<\/span> (ps479 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC studies of the first row atoms&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/seth_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Pilot waves, Feynman path integrals, and quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/towler_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrtrail at jaist.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Optimum and efficient sampling for variational quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/trail_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lucas Wagner<\/span> (lkwagner at berkeley.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Using QMC to optimize geometries&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/wagner_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ching-Ming Wei<\/span> (cmw at phys.sinica.edu.tw)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;QMC studies of (i) transition metal clusters, and (ii) surface adsorption&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/wei_qmcitaa_09.pps\">PPS<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Shiwei Zhang<\/span> (shiwei at wm.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>&#8220;Is the homogeneous electron gas homogeneous?&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_09\/zhang_qmcitaa_09.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps IV &#8211; 2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Melting temperature of Fe at Earth&#8217;s core conditions from quantum Monte Carlo free energy calculations&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/alfe_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Jordi Boronat<\/span> (jordi.boronat at upc.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Higher-order actions for path integral Monte Carlo simulations&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/boronat_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/drummond_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Jonathan DuBois<\/span> (dubois9 at llnl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Experiments in direct nodal optimization&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/dubois_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (wmc.foulkes at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;DFT and QMC studies of the thermodynamics of point defects in alumina&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/foulkes_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Rex Godby<\/span> (rwg3 at york.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum transport beyond the independent-electron approximation&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/godby_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Hennig<\/span> (rhennig at cornell.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The QMC petascale project&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/hennig_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Randy Hood<\/span> (hood9 at llnl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo studies of metals and materials with properties determined by weak dispersive interactions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/hood_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Jumper<\/span> (jj314 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Adaptive error control for diffusion Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/jumper_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Yukiumi Kita<\/span> (happysea at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Multi-component quantum Monte Carlo method&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/kita_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Martin Korth<\/span> (mkorth at muenster.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of biomacromolecule model systems&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/korth_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Robert Lee<\/span> (rml38 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC with biexcitons&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/lee_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Backflow sparsity&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/lopez_rios_backflow_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>&#8220;A general Jastrow factor&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/lopez_rios_jastrow_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>&#8220;Positronium molecules&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/lopez_rios_positronium_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Arne L\u00fcchow<\/span> (luechow at rwth-aachen.de)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo calculations on Rydberg states and transition metal oxides&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/luechow_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Some new random number generators tested on CASINO&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/maezono_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrew Morris<\/span> (ajm255 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Defects in semiconductors using random structure searching&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/morris_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Norbert Nemec<\/span> (nn245 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Van der Waals forces in graphitic nanostructures&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/nemec_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Manolo Per<\/span> (manolo.per at rmit.edu.au)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Anisotropic electron-pair densities in QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/per_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Fernando Reboredo<\/span> (reboredofa at ornl.gov)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;A self-healed DMC algorithm&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/reboredo1_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]- <i>&#8220;QMC and GW calculations on fullerenes&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/reboredo2_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]- Paper [<a href=\"link.aps.org\/abstract\/PRB\/v79\/e195117\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Masanori Tachikawa<\/span> (tachi at yokohama-cu.ac.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Multi component molecular orbital method for positronic compounds&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/xx_qmcitaa_08.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Another look at pilot wave theory &#8211; De Broglie and Bohm&#8217;s solution to the QM interpretation problem, together with reflections on possible connections with quantum Monte Carlo.&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_08\/s\/towler_qmcitaa_08.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps III &#8211; 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Further random results from random structure searching&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/richard_needs_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Alf\u00e8<\/span> (d.alfe at ucl.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Absolute rate of thermal desorption from first principles simulations&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/dario_alfe_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lucas Wagner<\/span> (lkwagner at berkeley.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo and transition metal oxides&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/lucas_wagner_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Nick Hine<\/span> (nicholas.hine at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo investigations of point defects in alumina&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/nick_hine_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Paolo Umari<\/span> (umari at democritos.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Linear and non-linear susceptibilities from quantum Monte Carlo: application to periodic hydrogen chains&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/paolo_umari_tti_2007.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo L\u00f3pez R\u00edos<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC study of the electron-hole phase diagram&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/pablo_lopez_rios_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC studies of quantum nanowires and nanolayers&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/neil_drummond_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Zolt\u00e1n Radnai<\/span> (zr205 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The Overhauser instability&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/zoltan_radnai_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Bressanini<\/span> (dario.bressanini at insubria.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The quest for compact wave functions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/dario_bressanini_tti_2007.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Rene Gaudoin<\/span> (swxgagar at ehu.es)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Modelling the spherically-averaged structure factor in quantum Monte Carlo calculations&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/rene_gaudoin_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Claudio Attaccalite<\/span> (claudio.attaccalite at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Ab initio molecular dynamics for high-pressure liquid hydrogen&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/claudio_attaccalite_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Hennig<\/span> (rhennig at ccmr.cornell.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Dense beryllium-lithium alloys with quasi 2-d electronic states in a 3-d crystal structure&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/richard_hennig_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alexander Badinski<\/span> (ab582 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Accurate diffusion Monte Carlo forces&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/alex_badinski_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Al\u00e1n Aspuru-Guzik<\/span> (alan at aspuru.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Where is the electron pair? A QMC detective story&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/alan_aspuru-guzik_tti_2007_1.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum computation for quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/alan_aspuru-guzik_tti_2007_2.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrt32 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Optimization on random surfaces&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/john_trail_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ching-Ming Wei<\/span> (cmw at phys.sinica.edu.tw)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC studies of Na, B and Al clusters&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/ching-ming_wei_tti_2007.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Stefano Paolini<\/span> (paolini at sissa.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of He-4 clusters doped with molecular and ionic impurities&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/stefano_paolini_tti_2007.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (rmaezono at mac.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Pseudopotential QMC calculations of porphyrin using CASINO&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/ryo_maezono_tti_2007.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrew Morris<\/span> (ajm255 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;BEC-BCS crossover in cold atoms&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/andrew_morris_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Kilian Frensch<\/span> (kilian.frensch03 at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Point defects in TiO<sub>2<\/sub>&#8220;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_07\/kilian_frensch_tti_2007.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps II &#8211; 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ali Alavi<\/span> (asa10 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo based on the idea of sampling graphs&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/ali_alavi_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alexander Badinski<\/span> (ab582 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Accurate forces from ab initio pseudopotentials within QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/alexander_badinski_tti-2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Dario Bressanini<\/span> (dario.bressanini at uninsubria.it)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Is QMC delivering its early promises? (with some reflections on nodes and wave functions)&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/dario_bressanini_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Ab initio study of positron annihilation in a homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/neil_drummond_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>&#8220;Some QMC puzzles&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/neil_drummond_puzzles_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (m.foulkes at ic.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Finite size corrections: structure factor or MPC or both?&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/matthew_foulkes_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Idoia Garcia de Gurtubay<\/span> (ig243 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC dissociation energy of the water dimer: time-step errors and backflow calculations&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/idoia_de_gurtubay_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ainsley Gibson<\/span> (ainsley.gibson at gmail.com)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Quantum Monte Carlo for &#8216;difficult&#8217; systems in materials chemistry&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/ainsley_gibson_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Hennig<\/span> (hennig.4 at osu.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Accuracy of the pseudopotential and fixed-node approximations for first and second-row dimers&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/richard_hennig_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Nick Hine<\/span> (nicholas.hine at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The surface energy of the electron gas: resolving a long-standing contradiction&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/nick_hine_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo Lopez Rios<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Inhomogeneous backflow transformations in quantum Monte Carlo&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/pablo_lopez_rios_backflow_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n&#8211; <i>..and the accompanying movie<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/pablo_lopez_rios_backflow_movie_tti_2006.gif\">GIF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrea Ma<\/span> (am570 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The equation of state of diamond&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/andrea_ma_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (maezono.ryo at nims.go.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;The fragment method in QMC&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/ryo_maezono_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Lubos Mitas<\/span> (lmitas at unity.ncsu.edu)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Topology of fermion nodes and Pfaffian pairing wave functions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/lubos_mitas_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Where are the atoms?&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/richard_needs_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Zolt\u00e1n Radnai<\/span> (zr205 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Non-collinear spins in QMC: application to spiral spin density waves&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/zoltan_radnai_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ian Snook<\/span> (ian.snook at rmit.edu.au)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC and weak physical interactions&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/ian_snook_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Graham Spink<\/span> (ggs24 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;Remaining problems in the homogeneous electron gas&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/graham_spink_tti_2006.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrt32 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>&#8220;QMC: what are the odds of that?&#8221;<\/i> [<a href=\"https:\/\/casinoqmc.net\/tti_talks\/qmcitaa_06\/john_trail_tti_2006.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quantum Monte Carlo in the Apuan Alps &#8211; 2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Alexander Badinski<\/span> (ab582 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Forces in QMC: a literature review, challenges and our new possible approach<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/badinski\/forces.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Neil Drummond<\/span> (ndd21 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Some mathematical puzzles in QMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/drummond\/Challenge\/puzzles.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Optimisation of Jastrow factors by variance minimisation<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/drummond\/Diamondoids\/cdot_talk.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Electron emission from diamondoids: a DMC study<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/drummond\/Varmin\/newopt_talk.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Matthew Foulkes<\/span> (m.foulkes at ic.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>The surface energy of the electron gas &#8211; a battle with error bars<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/foulkes\/surface_energy_electron_gas.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Nick Hine<\/span> (nicholas.hine at imperial.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Localization tensor calculations on quantum dots in DFT and VMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/hine\/hine_loc_tensor.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Idoia Garcia de Gurtubay<\/span> (ig243 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>QMC dissociation energies of three electron hemibonded radical cation<br \/>\ndimers.. and water clusters.<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/gurtubay\/qmc_dissociation_energies.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Pablo Lopez Rios<\/span> (pl275 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>The electron-hole system and QMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/lopezrios\/eh_talk_29_07_2005.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Backflow corrections in QMC : going beyond the Slater-Jastrow wave function in fermionic systems<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/lopezrios\/backflow_ESDG_01June05.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Andrea Ma<\/span> (am570 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Diamond equation of state<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/ma\/andrea_talk.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Ryo Maezono<\/span> (MAEZONO.Ryo at nims.go.jp)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>The fragment method in QMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/maezono\/rmaezono.ppt\">PPT<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Richard Needs<\/span> (rn11 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Calculating the dielectric constant within QMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/needs\/dielectric_constants_qmc.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Wave functions in QMC<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/needs\/wave_functions_in_qmc.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Zolt\u00e1n Radnai<\/span> (zr205 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Noncollinear spins in QMC: spiral spin density waves in the HEG<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/radnai\/ncs_sdw.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">Mike Towler<\/span> (mdt26 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Localized orbitals and localized basis sets<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/towler\/towler_locorbs.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Metal-insulator transitions<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/towler\/towler_mi_transitions.pdf\">PDF<\/a>], [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/towler\/sorella_paper.pdf\">Sorella paper<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Richard Burton and the source of the Nile<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/towler\/towler_nile.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\">John Trail<\/span> (jrt32 at cam.ac.uk)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8211; <i>Multideterminant atomic wave functions for quantum Monte Carlo<\/i> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallico.net\/tti\/qmcitaa_05\/talks\/trail\/mdet.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Apuan Alps Centre for Physics in Vallico Sotto opened for business in 2004. 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