[LA-SiGMA] LA-SiGMA Courses in Spring 2012

[Leigh Townsend]

Hello,

Dr. Jarrell and Dr. Moreno are each teaching one course this spring
(beginning Jan 17th to May 4th, 2012). I have posted the course information
below.

Please read over the course descriptions and contact either Dr. Jarrell or
Dr. Moreno if you are interested in either course. Please pass this
information
along to any student you think would be interetested.

We would like to know by the end of next week (Dec. 16th) about students in
other
LaSigma institutions to be able to test the Polycom connections before
the Christmas break.

Best regards,
Leigh Townsend


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*Many Body Theory* focuses on advanced many-body techniques in material
science,
and is taught by Mark Jarrell. If students were interested, the first month
of the course will be dedicated to discuss advanced statistical mechanics,
including
the physics of phase transitions (scale invariance near the critical point,
scaling,
renormalization group, etc). The rest of the course would be focused in
many body
theory either using a conventional approach (Gellman-Low, Wick's theory) or
a
path-integral based approach. Non-equilibrium Green function formalism,
the  Keldysh
formalism, or even the Wagner formalism could be also discussed. In
addition, several
many-body numerical methods are derived and used in class projects,
including Dynamical
Mean Field Approximation, Dynamical Cluster Approximation and
renormalization group.
A basic course in Condensed Matter/Solid State Physics (Ashcroft/Mermin) is
a suggested pre-requisite for this course.
The final schedule has not been decided but classes will meet twice per
week, as for example,
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:10 to 10:30 a.m. Central US time.


*PHYS 7411 (Computational Physics)* is taught by Karen Tomko (Ohio
Supercomputer Center) and
Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University).
It focuses on high performance computing (HPC) and the techniques used in
designing
and implementing computationally intensive applications on HPC systems.
High performance
systems including traditional parallel supercomputers, Linux clusters, and
hardware
accelerators (such as GPUs and FPGAs) will be discussed. The course will
focus on
parallelization and memory access optimization for computationally
intensive applications
in science and engineering.
Classes meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:40-9:30 a.m. Central US
time.

For more information, please visit the course Web site at
http://www.pirealps.org/ or
contact Mark Jarrell at jarrellphysics at gmail.com or Juana Moreno at
moreno at phys.lsu.edu.

-- 
Leigh Townsend
Outreach Coordinator for LA-SiGMA
Louisiana State University
402 Choppin Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
O (225) 578-5381
F (225) 578-3458
www.institute.loni.org/lasigma/
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