CECAM/Psi-k Workshop

The Diffusion Monte Carlo Method

CECAM, Lyon, 19-21 September 2002

The aim of this workshop, jointly supported by CECAM and the ESF STRUC-Psi-k Programme, was to bring together scientists interested in the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method - a stochastic wave-function based approach to solving the Schrödinger equation for interacting particles. The workshop focused both on algorithmic issues and applications of the methods.

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME with links to abstracts.

Click on the link for more information about the scientific background to the workshop.

Speakers

• Dario Alfè, University College, London, UK
• Roland Assaraf, University of Paris, Jussieu, France
• Pietro Ballone, University of Messina, Italy
• David Benoit, Queen Mary College London, UK
• Dario Bressanini, Università dell'Insubria, Italy
• Michel Caffarel, University of Paris, Jussieu, France
• Stephen Fahy, University of Cork, Ireland
• Heinz-Jürgen Flad, MPI Leipzig, Germany
• Matthew Foulkes, Imperial College, London, UK
• Mal Kalos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Erik Koch, Max-Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Germany
• Arne Lüchow, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
• Lubos Mitás, North Carolina, USA
• Saverio Moroni, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
• Peter Nightingale, University of Rhode Island, USA
• Friedemann Schautz, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
• Ivan Stich, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• John Trail, University of Cambridge, UK
• Cyrus Umrigar, Cornell University, USA
• Andrew Williamson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Non-speaking participants

• Alexander Badinski, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
• Maria Alfredsson, Royal Institution, London, UK
• Michele Casula, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
• Neil Drummond, University of Cambridge, UK
• Martin Fuchs, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
• Mike Gillan, University College, London, UK
• Peter Kratzer, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany
• Peter Reinhardt, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Fance
• Sami Siljamäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
• Lucas Wagner, University of North Carolina, USA
• Ben Wood, Imperial College, London, UK

Organizers

• Richard Needs
  Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK. [WWW]
• Claudia Filippi
  Universiteit Leiden Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 9506, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
• Mike Towler
  Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK. [WWW]