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

[Leigh Townsend]

Hello,

I'd like to announce another LA-SiGMA course that will be offered in the
Spring of 2012.

Dr. Les Butler and Dr. Jinghua Ge are teaching a course on 3D
visualization. I have attached a PDF flyer with the course information.

Please contact me at lgalat1 at lsu.edu if you are interested in registering
for this course.

Regards,
Leigh

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Leigh Townsend <lgalat1 at tigers.lsu.edu>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> ****************************************************************************
>
> *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/
>
>
>


-- 
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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