Workshop IV: Computational Challenges in Warm Dense Matter

Part of the Long Program Computational Methods in High Energy Density Plasmas
May 21 - 25, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 21, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:10 Long Program Overview: Frank Graziani
9:10 - 10:00
Michael Desjarlais (Sandia National Laboratories)

An Introduction to Warm Dense Matter Research

10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 11:15
Samuel Trickey (University of Florida)

The Quantum Theory Landscape for Warm Dense Matter
PDF Presentation
11:25 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:30
Ronald Redmer (Universität Rostock)

Warm dense matter and the interior of giant planets
PDF Presentation
12:40 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Carsten Fortmann (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Dynamical Structure Factor in Warm Dense Matter and Applications to X-Ray Thomson Scattering
PDF Presentation
5:30 - 7:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Brian Wilson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Multi-Center Electronic Structure Calculations For Plasma Equation of State
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Didier Saumon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

A model of warm dense matter for small computers
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Luke Shulenburger (Sandia National Laboratories)

Perspectives on plasma simulation techniques from the IPAM quantum simulation working group
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Eberhard Gross (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)

 

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Andreas Goerling (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Density-functional methods for electronic systems at finite temperatures
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Patrick Rinke (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

Towards a unified description of ground and excited state properties
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Warm Dense Matter
PDF Presentation

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Stefano Pittalis (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Exact Conditions in Finite-Temperature Density-Functional Theory
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Carsten Ullrich (University of Missouri-Columbia)

TDDFT for matter under extreme conditions
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
Normand Modine (Sandia National Laboratories)

Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Moving Ions

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20

Friday, May 25, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 12:45 Closing Remarks