International summer school on   
   New trends in computational approaches for many-body systems
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Organisers:
André-Marie Tremblay
Massimo Boninsegni
Michel Côté
Roger Melko
David Sénéchal
Matthias Troyer
Guifre Vidal

Sponsors:

U. de Sherbrooke

I2CAM

cifar

RQMP

PiTP

Calcul Quebec

Calcul Canada

PiTP

May 28 to June 8, 2012
Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Monday May 28, 2012
  8h15 -   8h30 Spino-TremblayWelcome
  8h30 -   9h00TremblayShort intro to the School, refresher in QM
  9h00 - 10h00 Louis Taillefer Experimental aspects of unconventional superconductors
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 11h30 CôtéIntroduction to DFT and Density functionals
11h30 - 12h00RignaneseAbinit code, part 1
15h00 - 16h00Côté, RignaneseHands-on training, # 1, Ab init
16h00 - 16h30             BREAK
16h30 - 17h30Côté, RignaneseHands-on training, # 1, Ab init
17h30 - 18h15RignaneseAbinit code, part 2
18h15 - 19h00 Tremblay Introduction: refresher in Many-Body theory

Tuesday May 29, 2012
  8h30 -   9h15 Côté DFT+U
  9h15 - 10h00Côté, RignaneseHands-on training, # 2, Ab init
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00Côté, RignaneseHands-on training, # 2, Ab init
14h00 - 15h30             POSTERS
15h30 - 17h00TremblayIntroduction : refresher in Many-Body Theory
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Rignanese GW method

Wednesday May 30, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00 Kotliar DMFT and ab-initio methods
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 Kotliar DMFT and ab-initio methods
14h00 - 15h30 Amadon LDA+DMFT
15h30 - 17h00 Côté, Rignanese Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00 Côté, Rignanese Hands-on training, # 3, Ab init

Thursday May 31, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00 Côté, Rignanese Hands-on training, # 4, Ab init
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 Côté, Rignanese Hands-on training, # 4, Ab init
15h30 - 17h00 Sénéchal Quantum Cluster methods
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 19h00 Sénéchal Quantum Cluster methods

Friday June 1, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00 Troyer Introduction to Monte Carlo methods, ergodicity, detailed balance, biased sampling, variance estimate
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 Melko Quantum Monte Carlo, SSE, loop updates
14h30 - 15h30 Troyer Introduction to ALPS
15h30 - 17h00 Troyer Hands-on training #1, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Troyer Hands-on training #1, ALPS

Weekend, no classes

Monday June 4, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00 Del Maestro Worm algorithms
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 Werner Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (weak coupling)
14h30 - 15h30              POSTERS
15h30 - 17h00 Troyer Hands-on training   #2, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00 Troyer Hands-on training   #2, ALPS

Tuesday June 5, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00 Werner Continuous-time Quantum Monte Carlo (strong coupling)
10h00 - 10h30              BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 White DMRG
14h00 - 15h30 White DMRG
15h30 - 17h00 Troyer Hands-on training   #3, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00 Troyer Hands-on training   #3, ALPS

Wednesday June 6, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00Schollwöck Time-dependent DMRG
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00SchollwöckQuantum information point of view on DMRG and other methods
14h00 - 15h30             POSTERS
15h30 - 17h00Troyer Hands-on training #4, ALPS
17h00 - 17h30              BREAK
17h30 - 19h00Troyer Hands-on training #4, ALPS

Thursday June 7, 2012
  8h30 - 10h00Corboz PEPS
10h00 - 10h30             BREAK
10h30 - 12h00 Ferris MERA
15h00 - 16h00CorbozFermionic tensor networks
16h00 - 17h00 Ferris Monte Carlo and MERA
17h00 - 17h30             BREAK
17h30 - 18h30 Melko Monte Carlo and Quantum information

Friday June 8, 2012
  9h00 - 12h00             FINAL EXAM