Program of the 2002 15th Annual Workshop

Recent Developments in Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics

Physics Building, The University of Georgia, Athens



Monday, March 11 8:30-10:00a Registration (Room 304)
9:00-10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion in Conference Room 201)
10:00-10:05a David P. Landau (The University of Georgia) Introductory Remarks
10:05-11:05a Jim Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota) "Simulations of Semiconductor Liquids Using First Principles Molecular Dynamics"
11:20-11:35a Yusuke Tomita (Tokyo Metropolitan University) "Probability-changing Cluster Algorithm for Two-dimensional Systems with the Vector Order
11:50a-12:05p Hwee Kuan Lee (The University of Georgia) "Monte Carlo Simulations of Interaction Magnetic Nano-particles"
12:15p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Jayanth Banavar (Pennsylvania State University) "Geometry and Physics of Proteins"
3:15-3:30p Synge Todo (ETH Zurich) "Parallel QMC Simulation for S=3 Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Chain
4:00-4:15p Ben Jesko Schulz (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz) "Flat Histogram Method of Wang-Landau and N-fold Way"
4:30-4:45p Per Arne Rikvold (Florida State University) "Fine-grid Simulations of Thermally Activated Switching in Nanoscale Magnets"
5:00-5:15p Kwangsik Nho (The University of Georgia) "Spin-dynamics Simulations of the Triangular Antiferromagnetic XY Model"

Tuesday, March 12 9:00-10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)
10:00-11:00a Mark Novotny (Mississippi State University) "Low Temperature Metastability: Prefactors, Divergences, and Discontinuities"
11:15-11:30a Laura Nurminen (Helsinki University of Technology) "Monte Carlo Simulation of the Surface Structure of Ge on Si(001)"
11:45a-12:00 Noon Yukiyasu Ozeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) "Nonequilibrium Relaxation Analysis of Frustrated XY Models in Two Dimensions"
12:15p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Jose Castanos (IBM) "Blue Gene: Building PetaFLOPS Computers"
3:15-3:30p Dennis Rapaport (Bar-Ilan University) "Granular Segregation: Simulating the Expected and the Unexpected"
4:00-4:15p Guido Schmid (ETH Zurich) "Finite-temperature Phase Transitions of Hard-core Bosons"
4:30-4:45p Evgeniy Puzyryov (Florida Atlantic University) "Calculation of Static and Thermal Displacements of Atoms in Metallic Alloys"
5:00-5:15p Jörg Schulenburg (Otto-von-Guericke-Universität) "Macroscopic Magnetization Jumps due to Independent Magnons in Frustrated Quantum Spin Lattices"

Wednesday, March 13 9:00-10:00a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)
10:00-11:00a Colin Denniston (Johns Hopkins University) "Dynamic Interfaces in Complex Fluids"
11:15-11:30a Jochen Hoffmann (Universität Konstanz) "Phase Transitions and Quantum Effects in Pore Condensates"
11:45a-12:00 Noon Bob Swendsen (Carnegie-Mellon University) "Statistical Mechanics of Distinguishable Particles"
12:15p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Nobuo Furukawa (Aoyama-Gakuin University) "Polynomial Expansion Algorithm for the Monte Carlo Simulation of Electronic Systems"
3:15-3:30p Jian-Sheng Wang (National University of Singapore/Carnegie-Mellon University) "Binary Tree Summation Monte Carlo Method for Potts Models"
4:00-4:15p Gregory Brown (Florida State University) "Dynamics of Magnetization Switching and Phase Ordering"
4:30-4:45p Hans De Raedt (University of Groningen) "New Unconditionally Stable Algorithms to Solve the Time-dependent Maxwell Equations"
5:00-5:15p Andreas Voigt (The University of Georgia) "Stochastic Feynman Diagram Summation for Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"
7:00-8:30p Workshop Reception Dean Rusk Hall, 4th Floor Reception Hall on North Campus toward downtown Athens (between Main Library and Law School; also shown as Bldg. 0045 on some campus maps)

Thursday, March 14 9:00-9:30a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)
9:30-9:45a Thomas Schulthess (ORNL) "First Principles Calculations of the Magnetic Structure in FeMn/Co Bilayers"
10:00-11:00a Jürgen Horbach (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz) "A Lattice-Boltzmann Method for Charged Colloidal Systems"
11:15-11:30a Kriistel Michielsen (University of Groningen) "Chebyshev Method to Solve the Time-dependent Maxwell Equation"
11:45a-12:00 Noon Nobuyasu Ito (The University of Tokyo) "Nonequilibrium Relaxation Study on the Ferromagnetic Transition of Ising Spin Glass Model"
12:15p Lunch
2:00-3:00p Tom J. Haine (IBM) "Deep Computing with High Performance Computers at IBM"
3:15-3:30p Chien-Hua Pao (National Chung Cheng University) "A Microscopic Approach to One-electron Mott-Hubbard Gap"
4:00-5:00p Yunsic Shim (NIST) "Asymptotic Behavior of a Strain Percolation Model for a Deforming Metal"

Friday, March 15 9:00-9:30a Coffee and donuts (informal discussion) (Conference Room 201)
9:30-10:30a Matthias Troyer (ETH Zurich) "From Frustrated Ising Models to Quantum Computing"
10:45-11:00a Shan-Ho Tsai (The University of Georgia) "Phase Transitions in Ferro/Antiferromagnetic Bilayers"
11:15a-12:15p Mark Jarrell (University of Cincinnati) "Quantum Cluster Theory"
12:30p David P. Landau (The University of Georgia) Closing Remarks