Workshop IV: Computational Challenges in Warm Dense Matter - IPAM

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

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:10
Long Program Overview: Frank Graziani
09:10-10:00
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
11:25-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
Ronald Redmer (Universität Rostock)
Warm dense matter and the interior of giant planets

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Dario Alfe (University College London)
Complementary approaches to high temperature-high pressure crystal structure stability and melting
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Stephane Mazevet (Observatoire de Paris)
X-ray near edge spectroscopy (XANES) as a probe of warm dense matter
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Carsten Fortmann (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Dynamical Structure Factor in Warm Dense Matter and Applications to X-Ray Thomson Scattering
17:30-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Walter Johnson (University of Notre Dame)
Xray Scattering from WDM: Thomson Scattering in the Average-Atom Approximation
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
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Didier Saumon (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
A model of warm dense matter for small computers

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Jerome Daligault (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Time-Dependent Thomas-Fermi Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dense Plasmas
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
James Dufty (University of Florida)
Effective Forces for Application of Classical Methods to Quantum Systems
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Luke Shulenburger (Sandia National Laboratories)
Perspectives on plasma simulation techniques from the IPAM quantum simulation working group

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Eberhard Gross (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)
Title not available
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
The relationship between density functional theory and semiclassical approximations
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Patrick Rinke (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Towards a unified description of ground and excited state properties
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
David Ceperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for Warm Dense Matter

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Stefano Pittalis (CNR-NANO (National Research Council, Institute of Nanoscience))
Exact Conditions in Finite-Temperature Density-Functional Theory
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Travis Sjostrom (University of Florida)
Finite-Temperature Hartree-Fock Exchange and Exchange-Correlation Free Energy Functionals
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Ann Mattsson (Sandia National Laboratories)
Improving the Predictive Power of Calculations for the Warm Dense Matter Region

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Carsten Ullrich (University of Missouri-Columbia)
TDDFT for matter under extreme conditions
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Normand Modine (Sandia National Laboratories)
Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory with Moving Ions
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Volker Blum (Duke University)
All electron ab initio molecular simulations - status, successes, and some computational challenges

Friday, May 25, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Paul Grabowski (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Simulating Quantum High Energy Density Plasmas: Approximations According to the Time-Dependent Variational Principle
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Flavien Lambert (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))
Plastic ablator in the hydrodynamic-instability regime: a rst-principle set of microscopic coefficients
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Joel Kress (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Mass Transport in the Warm, Dense Matter and High-Energy Density Regimes

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:45
Closing Remarks
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