Second Les Houches school in computational physics - Ab initio quantum simulations in condensed matter physics

June 19, 2012 - June 29, 2012
Location : Les Houches/Rhone-Alpes/France

The school ackowledges support and funding from CNRS via the GDR CoDFT and the “Formation permanente”, funding from the Centre des Houches, and funding from the French Rhône-Alpes CECAM node. This school has received a “Ecole doctorale” label and is a “Ecole thematique 2012” CNRS.

Organisers:

• Xavier Blase (Institut Néel, CNRS/UJF, Grenoble, France)
• Thierry Deutsch (L_Sim, CEA/INAC, Grenoble, France)
• Jean-Louis Barrat (Liphy, UJF, Grenoble, France)

Administrative coordination:

• Brigitte Rousset, École de physique des Houches (brigitte.rousset@ujf-grenoble.fr)

Web site:

• Cerasela Calugaru, Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS Lyon.

Computer wizard:

• Emmanuel Quemener, Centre Blaise Pascal, ENS Lyon.

Scientific committee: Mebarek Alouani (IPCMS, Strasbourg); Bernard Amadon (CEA, Bruyères le Châtel); Cyrille Barreteau (SPCSI, CEA-Saclay); Fabien Bruneval (SRMP, CEA-Saclay); Eric Cances Cermics, ENPC, Champs sur Marne); Christophe Delerue (IEMN, Lille); Marie-Liesse Doublet (Institut Charles Gerhardt, Montpellier); Vincent Robert (Lab. Chimie Quantique, Institut de Chimie, Strasbourg); Valérie Veniard(external link) (LSI et ETSF, Ecole Polytechnique)

This school is the second of a series of events devoted to Computational physics and hosted by the prestigious Ecole de Physique des Houches (Rhône-Alpes, France) located 1h30/2h00/2h30 mns away from Lausanne/Grenoble/Lyon. This session will be devoted to Ab initio quantum simulations in the condensed matter. From basic theories to tutorials on well-distributed computational packages, the aim is to take advantage of the 10 days reserved at Les Houches to offer a large panorama of the theories and techniques used in our community. From PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, to permanent researchers aiming at understanding and using ab initio quantum simulation tools, the public is expected to be rather large and diversified.

Sponsors The school acknowledges funding from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) through the “Groupement de Recherche CoDFT” and the “Formation permanente”, from the Rhône-Alpes CECAM (centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) node, and from Université Josheph Fourier. This school has received a label “Formation doctorale” and is a “Ecole thématique CNRS 2012”. Bags and booknotes have been graciously provided by Bull and the USB keys by the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.