PIRE: Graduate Education and Research in Petascale Many Body Methods for Complex Correlated Systems: A Collaboration with Partners in Germany and Switzerland

PIRE Courses:

Spring 2008:

Computational Physics: Computing for Petascale Systems

Karen Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University)

This is a 3-credit graduate course. It focuses on high performance computing (HPC) and the techniques used in designing and implementing computationally intensive applications on HPC systems. High performance systems including traditional parallel supercomputers, Linux clusters, and hardware accelerators (such as GPUs and FPGAs) will be discussed. The course will focus on parallelization and memory access optimization for computationally intensive applications in science and engineering. For more information, please, follow this link

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics

Mark Jarrell (Louisiana State University)

This is an advanced graduate course, covering many-body theory, diagrammatic perturbation theory, bosonization, path integrals, etc. In addition, several many-body numerical methods are derived and used in class projects, including Dynamical Mean Field Approximation, Dynamical Cluster Approximation, renormalization group, etc. Find more information at the following link

Fall 2008:

Spring 2008:

German culture, Olaf Berwald (University of North Dakota)

Syllabus
Some resources

Postdoc and Student positions:

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German and Swiss resources

German Search Engines
www.abacho.de
www.dino.de
www.walhello.de
www.acoon.de
www.google.de

Facts about Germany:
http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/389.0.html

Websites on Germany and Switzerland, with many useful links:
http://www.uncg.edu/~lixlpurc/german.html
http://www.werle.com/intagent/index.htm
http://www.ualberta.ca/~german/Jump_Stations.html

Goethe Institute (with useful links):
http://www.goethe.de/

Virtual Museums:
http://webmuseen.de/
http://www.dhm.de/lemo/

German literature (free access to a wide range of German texts):
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
http://www.poetryinternational.org

German Parliament:
http://www.bundestag.de/

German News and Science Magazines:
www.paperball.de
www.natur.de
www.spektrum.de
www.spiegel.de
www.sueddeutsche.de
www.faznet.de
www.freitag.de

Swiss News:
www.nzz-online.ch

German Universities:
http://www.uni-online.de/

German Theater:
http://www.hfph.mwn.de/~chwolf/Theaterparadies_Deutschland.html

German Film:
http://www.film.de/

Daily Cultural links:
www.perlentaucher.de