High-Performance Computing in Physics

CMA, University of Oslo, Norway
November 4 , 2005.

New, Nov. 15:

(Some) Foils from the workshops are available through active links in the program below

Aims:

The workshops aims at discussing high-performance computing topics with an emphasis on quantum-mechanical methods and parallelization. An efficient usage of parallelization tools is of great importance for our progress in studies of quantum mechanical systems with many interacting particles. This relates both to basic research in quantum chemistry and physics and to applications in materials science and nanotechnology. The methods to be addressed are

• Partial differential equations
• Monte Carlo methods, diffusion and variational
• Coupled cluster techniques and large scale diagonalizations
• Density Functional Theory

We will also give a presentation of the new facilities in Norway. The workshops targets both experts and new potential users of the national supercomputing facilities.

Place

Center of Mathematics for Applications, Niels Henrik Abel's building, 10th floor,  seminar room B1036

Program:

Talks are 45min + 15 min for questions

09.00-10.00  Jostein Sundet (USIT, UiO): Overview of national facilities
10.00-11.00 David Dean (Oak Ridge National Lab and CMA): Coupled Cluster methods as ab initio methods in quantum physics
11.00-11.30    coffee break
11-30-12.30 Trygve Helgaker (Chemistry, UiO): Density Functional Theory in Quantum Chemistry

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.30 Hans Petter Langtangen (Simula/IFI): Parallelization of Partial differential equations (PDE) I
14.30-15.30 Xing Cai (Simula/IFI): Parallelization of PDE II
15.30-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 Halvor Møll Nilsen (CMA): Bose Einstein Condesation and PDEs
17.00-18.00 Jon Kristian Nilsen (USIT, UiO): Bose Einstein Condensation and Diffusion Monte Carlo
18.00 -->      Dinner, social gathering

Organizers:

• Morten Hjorth-Jensen (CMA and Dept of Physics, UiO)
• Jostein Sundet (USIT, UiO)