Picture of random dotsQuantum Monte Carlo discussion group: this is a fortnightly meeting where members of the TCM Needs (QMC, AIRSS, etc.) group explore problems and keep each other up-to-date. It is held on alternate Wednesdays at 11:00am in the TCM seminar room.

The old QMCDG website may be found here. Please talk to me (rml38) if you want to give a talk or have something to say about how things are run. I would also be grateful for any slides that speakers would like to make available.

The meetings are intended to be very informal; talks don't need to be polished and the focus is on discussion. Furthermore, the topic is not by any means restricted to QMC - other subjects (eg. random structure searching) frequently come up.

Upcoming meetings

Previous meetings

Easter term 2010

  • June 23rd - Benchmarking (Martin Korth)
  • June 9th - Crystal structures of the ammonia hydrates (Gareth Griffiths)
  • May 26th - The Zero-Temperature Phase Diagram of Fermionic Hard Discs (Neil Drummond)

Lent term 2010

  • March 3rd - Overview (Richard Needs), The 1d HEG (short practice talk) (Robert Lee)
  • February 17th - The super-high-density 3d HEG (Neil Drummond)
  • February 3rd - Statistical errors in QMC (Robert Lee), Introduction to Python contd. (Norbert Nemec) [LINK]
  • January 20th - Introduction to Python (Norbert Nemec) [LINK]

Michaelmas term 2009

  • 9th Dec - The electron-proton correlation functional in a 2-component DFT (Alston Misquitta)
  • 25th Nov - Casino at home (Martin Korth) [SLIDES], Geminals (Pablo Lopez Rios) [SLIDES]
  • 11th Nov - XMGrace demonstration (Neil Drummond) [SLIDES]
  • 28th Oct - Some thoughts about quasiparticles, Landau energy functionals and spectral functions (Neil Drummond) [SLIDES]
  • 14th Oct - Introductions (everyone), State of the group (Richard Needs)

Current TCM group members:

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