PIRE Courses
Spring 2010:
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.
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Many Body Theory
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
Computational Physics II: Simulations of quantum many body systems
Matthias Troyer (ETH-Zurich)
This course is an introduction to simulation methods
for quantum many body systems in condensed matter physics, taught by experts of
the various methods. In particular the course will cover: Monte Carlo simulations,
exact diagonalization, series expansions, and the Density Matrix Renormalization Group.
This class is the first semester of a 3-semester course shared by tele-teaching
among the following institutions: ETH Zurich, LMU Munich, ENS Paris, MPI Dresden,
UMass Amherst, University of Wyoming and Louisiana State University.
More information at the following
link