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Daily Lectures and Labs

Week One: July 9-13, 2007

Week Two: July 16-19, 2007

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Please complete the summer school survey:

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General information:

The schedule on the public website has room location and time details: http://www.mcc.uiuc.edu/summerschool/2007/qmc/#program .
Also see the FAQ at http://cms.mcc.uiuc.edu/wiki/display/school/Home/.

Daily Lectures and Labs

Week One: July 9-13, 2007

MON, July 9:
- Welcome and Introduction to QMC, David Ceperley, Burkhard Militzer Handouts
- Introduction to Geophysics Lars Stixrude Handouts
- Introduction to Density Functional Theory, Ronald Cohen Handouts (Updated 7/9/2007, 9:39pm)
- Introduction to the labs, Jeongnim Kim (wiki notes only)
- Structural optimizations within DFT (Abinit code), Ronald Cohen, Richard Hennig Handouts

TUE, July 10
- Simulations, random walks and error analysis, David Ceperley Handouts
- Introduction to QMC-- Variational MC (VMC) and trial wavefunctions, Claudia Filippi Handouts
- Nonlocal pseudopotentials in DFT and VMC, Lubos Mitas Handouts
- Error analysis using the DATASPORK java program, David Ceperley, Jeongnim Kim
- VMC using the QMCPACK code, Jeongnim Kim

WED, July 11
- Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC)-- The basics, Claudia Filippi Handouts
- Fixed-node method and geminal nodes, Lubos Mitas Handouts
- Electronic properties, band gaps, defects in silicon, Richard Hennig Handouts
- Pseudopotential generation with Opium (A), Ken Esler (wiki notes only)
- Poster sessions

THU, July 12
- Selected topics in diffusion Monte Carlo, Claudia Filippi Handouts | Presentation-machine version
- QMC on geomaterials, Dario Alfe; Handouts: Powerpoint
- Lattice Dynamics, Thermal Properties, and Density Functional Perturbation Theory, Ronald Cohen Handouts
- Phonons with Espresso package (comparing linear response & small displacement method), Dario Alfe
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- Evening presentation: Old Faithful, Cold Faithful, and Frigid Faithful: Geysers of the Solar System, Susan Kieffer (Location: Illini Union)

FRI, July 13
- Ewald Interactions and Finite-Size Errors, Neil Drummond Handouts
- Order(N) methods in QMC, Dario Alfe Handouts
- Localised Orbitals, Periodic Systems and Backflow using CASINO, Neil Drummond, Pablo Lopez Rios

Week Two: July 16-19, 2007

MON, July 16
- Nodes using backflow coordinate transformations, Pablo Lopez Rios Handout
- New pairing wavefunctions and methods for nonlocal pseudopotentials, Michele Casula Handouts in PPT|Handouts in PDF
- Overview of Applications in the Cambridge Group, Neil Drummond Updated Monday, 9:47am
  - Handout "QMC Studies of Real Systems" in PPT | PDF
  - Handout "QMC study of electron-hole systems" in PDF
- Consultation with experts – sign up for a time, at the registration desk
- Time dependent QMC, Nancy Makri Handouts | Handouts in PDF
- Future of QMC--discussion in the auditorium

TUE, July 17
- Variational optimization and multi-determinants, Cyrus Umrigar Handouts in PDF
- Path Integral MC for distinguishable particles, Burkhard Militzer Handouts in PDF
- Reptation MC method, David Ceperley Handouts in PDF
- Petascale Computing: (Location: Illini Union, Room 314B, third floor, 12:30pm) Rob Pennington
- PIMC for distinguishable particle, Saad Khairallah & Burkhard Militzer c_tutorial01.pdf

WED, July 18
- Auxiliary Field Methods, Shiwei Zhang Handouts in PDF
- Bosons I: Path Integral MC for bosons, Burkhard Militzer [Handouts in PDF]
- Ground-state QMC with QMCPACK, Jeongnim Kim

THU, July 19
- Bosons II -- Bosonic Applications David Ceperley Handouts in PDF
- PIMC for Fermions David Ceperley Handouts in PDF
- [Real-time Path Integral MC (II)] Nancy Makri Lecture notes in PPT
- Path Integral Lab with Bosons (PIMC++) Bryan Clark and Ken Esler

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Bosons II -- Bosonic Applications (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC)-- The basics (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

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Equations of state, elasticity in geomaterials (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Error analysis using the DATASPORK java program (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

error analysis, Markov processes (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Evening presentation (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Ewald Interactions and Finite-Size Errors (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Fixed-node method and geminal nodes (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Ground-state QMC with QMCPACK (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to Density Functional Theory (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to DFT (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to Geophysics (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to lattice dynamics and thermal properties of solids (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to QMC-- Variational MC (VMC) and trial wavefunctions (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Introduction to the labs (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Lattice Dynamics, Thermal Properties, and Density Functional Perturbation Theory (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Localised Orbitals, Periodic Systems and Backflow using CASINO (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Markov processes and error analysis (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

New pairing wavefunctions and methods for nonlocal pseudopotentials (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Nodes using BACKFLOW coordinate transformations (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Nonlocal pseudopotentials in DFT and VMC (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Order(N) methods in QMC (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Overview of Applications in the Cambridge Group (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Path Integral MC for bosons (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Path Integral MC for distinguishable particles (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Petascale Computing-- Future Directions (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Phonons with Espresso package (comparing linear response & small displacement method) (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

PIMC for distinguishable particle (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

PIMC for Fermions (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

PIMC++ and UPI codes for bosons (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Pseudopotential generation Opium (A) (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Pseudopotential generation with Opium (A) (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

QMC for time dependence (II) (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

QMC on geomaterials (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Reptation MC method (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Selected topics in diffusion Monte Carlo (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Simulations, random walks and error analysis (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Structural optimizations within DFT (Abinit code) (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Time dependent QMC (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Variational optimization and multi-determinants (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

VMC using the QMCPACK code (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

Welcome and Introduction to QMC (Summer School 2007 - QMC)

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