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Linear Scaling Electronic Structure Methods

April 1 - 4, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Tutorials


Monday, April 01, 2002

Morning Session

Chair: Emily Carter (UCLA)

8:30 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:15

Richard Martin (University of Illinois)

"Density Functional Theory for Interacting Electrons"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:45

Martin Mohlenkamp (Ohio University)

"A Tutorial on Wavelets and their Applications"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:45 - 12:45 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Roi Baer (Hebrew University)

12:45 - 2:00

Trygve Helgaker (University of Oslo)

"Quantum Chemistry Methods"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:00 - 3:00

Danny Neuhauser (UCLA)

"Efficient Eigenvalue Methods"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:45

Tanja Füllenbach (FhG-SCAI)

"Tutorial on Multigrid and Local Refinement Methods"
Presentation (PDF File)

4:45 - 5:45

Martin Head-Gordon (University of California at Berkeley)

"Fast methods for coulomb and exchange interactions in DFT calculation"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:45 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Research Presentations


Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Each talk will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion

Morning Session

Chair: Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45

Jerry Bernholc (North Carolina State University)

"Multigrid DFT calculations, optimized localized orbitals and nearly O(N) calculations of quantum transport"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:45 - 10:30

Roi Baer (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

"Phase coherent molecular electronics: challenges for linear scaling"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45

Philip Sterne (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"A Finite-Element Approach for Electronic Structure Calculations"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:45 - 12:30

Stefan Goedecker (CEA DRFMC/SP2M)

"Extensions of the traditional linear scaling concepts"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Emilio Artacho (Cambridge)

2:00 - 2:45

Michael J. Gillan (University College, London)

"Linear Scaling DFT with b-splines"

2:45 - 3:30

Peter Haynes (Cambridge University)

"Linear-scaling DFT using localised spherical-waves and real-space grids"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:45

Matt Challacombe (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"An Irregular Approach to Parallelism in Linear Scaling Quantum Chemistry"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:45 - 5:45 Open Discussion

Wednesday, April 03, 2002

Each talk will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion

Morning Session

Chair: Gregory Beylkin (University of Colorado, Boulder)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45

Yan Wang (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

"O(M lnM) Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory"

9:45 - 10:30

Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute of Science)

"Systematic upscaling: linear complexity and beyond"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45

David Mazziotti (Princeton University)

"Linear Scaling and the 1,2-Contracted Schrodinger Equation"

11:45 - 12:30

Duane Johnson (University of Illinois)

"Green's function O(N) DFT method"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Emily Carter (UCLA)

2:00 - 2:45

Danny Sorensen (Rice University)

"Implicitly Restarted Krylov Projection Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems"

2:45 - 3:30

Gustavo Scuseria (Rice University)

"Linear scaling DFT, Hartree-Fock, MP2 and coupled cluster theories"

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:45

Derek Walter (UCLA)

"Weak-Pairs Pseudospectral Multireference Configuration Interaction"

4:45 - 5:30

Martin Schuetz (University of Stuttgart)

"Linear scaling coupled cluster theory"
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 - 5:45 Social Time (Beverages available)
5:45 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, April 04, 2002

Each talk will be 30 minutes with 15 minutes for discussion

Morning Session

Chair: Yousef Saad (University of Minnesota)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45

Oren Livne (Weizmann Institute of Science)

"O(NlnN) Calculation of N Eigenfunctions of Differential Operators"
Presentation (PDF File)

9:45 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:00

Arne Luechow (University of Duesseldorf)

"Linear scaling in quantum Monte Carlo"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:00 - 11:45

Randy Hood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Linear Scaling Quantum Monte Carlo"
Presentation (PDF File)

11:45 - 1:15 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Chair: Achi Brandt (Weizmann Institute)

1:15 - 2:00

Weitao Yang (Duke University)

"Linear Scaling Methods and Applications with the Divide-and-Conquer Method and with Localized Orbitals"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:00 - 3:00 Discussions and Conclusion

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