Schedule - 20th Mardi Gras Conference
| Thursday February 12th, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | |
| 9:00-9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University) | |
| 9:15-10:00 | Alexey Rubtsov (Moscow State University & Russian Quantum Center, Russia), Towards a numerically exact description of correlated open quantum systems | |
| 10:00-10:15 | Discussion | |
| 10:15-11:00 | Salvatore R. Manmana (Universität Göttingen), Matrix product state formulation of frequency-space dynamics at finite temperatures | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Discussion | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Randy S. Fishman (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Using inelastic scattering measurements to determine the complex spin states of multiferroic materials | |
| 12:00-12:15 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch Break: Philip Adams (Louisiana State University), Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Slow Relaxation: Complex non-equilibrium spin dynamics in a Zeeman-limited superconductor | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Wei Ku (Brookhaven National Laboratory) | |
| 1:30-2:15 | Rudolf Roemer (University of Warwick), Self-assembling tensor networks and holography in disordered spin chains | |
| 2:15-2:30 | Discussion | |
| 2:30-3:15 | Karen Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center), MPI+PGAS Hybrid Programming | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Discussion | |
| 3:30-4:15 | Erik Koch (German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Jǜˆlich), Stochastic sampling for the analytic continuation of imaginary-time data | |
| 4:15-4:30 | Discussion | |
| 4:30-6:00 | Poster session | |
| Friday February 13th, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Mark Jarrell (Louisiana State University) | |
| 9:00-9:45 | Kieron Burke (University of California, Irvine), Why strong correlation is difficult in density functional theory | |
| 9:45-10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Wei Ku (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Connecting real materials to low-energy effective Hamiltonian: applications of symmetry-respecting Wannier functions | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Ehsan Khatami (San José State University), Numerical Linked-Cluster Expansion Approach for Strongly-Correlated Electronic Systems | |
| 11:45-12:00 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break: Ilya Vekhter (Louisiana State University), Quasiparticle Étouffée: unconventional superconductors probed by magnetic field | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Václav Janiš (Acad. Sciences, Czech Republic & Louisiana State Univ.) | |
| 1:30-2:15 | Martin Weigel (Coventry University), Simulating spin models on GPU: A tour | |
| 2:15-2:30 | Discussion | |
| 2:30-3:15 | Ka-Ming Tam (Louisiana State University), Simulations of Edwards-Anderson model using GPU | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Discussion | |
| 3:30-4:15 | Frank Marsiglio (University of Alberta), The Dynamic Hubbard Model: studies with DMFT and exact diagonalization | |
| 4:15-4:30 | Discussion | |
| 4:30-5:15 | Luca de' Medici (ESRF Grenoble), Slave-spin mean-field calculations, an essential dynamical multi-orbital mean-field: application to Iron superconductors | |
| 6:00-8:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Saturday February 14th, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | |
| Session 5 | Chair: Randy Fishman (Oak Ridge National Lab) | |
| 9:00-9:45 | André-Marie Tremblay (Université de Sherbrooke), Strongly correlated superconductivity in cuprates and layered organics: results and some algorithmic details | |
| 9:45-10:00 | Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:45 | Václav Janiš (Acad. Sciences, Czech Republic & Louisiana State Univ.), Parquet equations for disordered and interacting electron systems: Self-energy and the role of the Ward identity | |
| 10:45-11:00 | Discussion | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Hartmut Hafermann (Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA), Collective charge excitations of strongly correlated electrons, vertex corrections and gauge invariance | |
| 11:45-12:00 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Closing Remarks | |
| 12:15 | Leaving for the Krewe of Endymion parade in New Orleans | |
| Sunday February 15th, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | |
| 9:00-9:05 a.m. | Opening Remarks | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Rudolf Roemer (University of Warwick) | |
| 9:05-10:35 | Pedagogical lecture: Václav Janiš (Acad. Sciences, Czech Republic & Louisiana State Univ.), Ergodicity in statistical mechanics of interacting and disordered systems: Destroying and restoring equilibrium ergodic states | |
| 10:35-10:50 | Discussion | |
| 10:50-11:20 | Valery Rousseau (Louisiana State University), The superfluid density in systems with complex interactions | PDF Video |
| 11:20-11:30 | Discussion | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Kalani Hettiarachchilage (Louisiana State University), Ferromagnetism in a two-dimensional two species bosonic Hubbard model | |
| 12:00-12:10 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:10-1:30 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Erik Koch (German Research School for Simulation Sciences) | |
| 1:30-3:00 | Pedagogical lecture: Rudolf Roemer (University of Warwick), Sparse matrix diagonalization, what it is, why and when it works | PDF Mathematica Notebook |
| 3:00-3:15 | Discussion | |
| 3:15-3:45 | Herbert Fotso (Ames National Lab), Field-driven quantum systems, From transient to steady state | PDF Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 |
| 3:45-3:55 | Discussion | |
| 3:55-4:25 | Peng Zhang (Carnegie Institution of Washington), DFT+DMFT study of magnetic properties in FeO at high pressure | |
| 4:25-4:35 | Discussion | |
| 4:35-5:05 | Shuxiang Yang (Louisiana State University), Numerical study of the periodic Anderson model with a quarter-filled conduction band | |
| 5:05-5:15 | Discussion | |
| Monday February 16th, 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration & Coffee | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Frank Marsiglio (University of Alberta) | |
| 9:00-10:30 | Pedagogical lecture: Erik Koch (German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Jülich), The Lanczos Method | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Discussion | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Shi-Quan Su (University of Tennessee), A Distributive Linear Algebra Approach for Scalable Computing Platform with Accelerator | |
| 11:15-11:25 | Discussion | |
| 11:25-11:55 | Yi Zhang (Louisiana State University), Study of multiband disordered systems using the typical medium dynamical cluster approximation | |
| 11:55-12:05 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:05-1:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 4 | Chair: Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University) | |
| 1:30-3:00 | Pedagogical lecture: Wei Ku (Brookhaven National Lab), How to construct symmetry-respecting Wannier functions | |
| 3:00-3:15 | Discussion | |
| 3:15-3:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:30-5:30 | Panel: What I did with my Physics degree: Alex Brandt (Rackspace), Physics B.S.: How I learned to stop worrying and live in business Sean Hall (Carver Scientific), Some surprising thoughts and realizations from a would be research scientist about employment in the 'Real World' Peter Reis (PosiTech Corp.), Using Physics and Computation in Industry |
Hall_PDF Reis_PDF |
