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Chinfest

High-order actions and their applications in many-body, few-body, classical problems

to honor our friend and collaborator

Siu A. Chin

at the occasion of his 60th birthday

March 24-26 2009

Technical University of Catalonia, North Campus

Barcelona

PROGRAMME

Main room of the Barcelona School of Informatics

(Building B6, North Campus, UPC)

Click here to see photos from the conference.

Tuesday 24 March 2009

9:00-9:15 Opening remarks

Jordi Boronat (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

Eckhard Krotscheck (University of Linz, Austria)

Chair: Raymond Bishop (University of Manchester, UK)

9:15-10:00 Siu A. Chin (Texas A&M University, USA)

Multi-product expansion and high order algorithms for solving physical evolution equations

10:00-10:30 Gregory Astrakharchik (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)

Two-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas: equation of state

11:00-11:45 Robert Zillich (University of Linz, Austria)

Dipolar quantum gases, exciplex formation in ⁴He, and surface condensate

11:45-12:30 Artur Polls (University of Barcelona, Spain)

Correlated momentum distributions in nuclear systems

12:30-13:00 Vesa Apaja (University of Jyväskylä, Finland )

Time Evolving Block Decimation: Applications to one dimensional fermions

Chair: Siu A. Chin (Texas A&M University, USA)

15:00-15:45 Fernando Casas (University Jaume I, Spain)

The Magnus expansion and its physical applications

15:45-16:30 Che-Ming Ko (Texas A&M University, USA)

Probing dense nuclear matter by heavy ion collisions

17:35-18:20 Juergen Geiser (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany )

Solving the Schroedinger Equation with Magnus Integrator and Suzuki's Method

Wednesday 25 March 2009


Chair: Eckhard Krotscheck (University of Linz, Austria)

9:00-9:45 Mikko Saarela ( University of Oulu, Finland) Two-component physics of charge carriers and the superconductor-insulator transition in cuprates

9:45-10:30 Ferran Mazzanti (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Excitations in Strongly Interacting Bose Einstein Condensates

11:00-11:45 Raymond Bishop (University of Manchester, UK) Journeys To and In Quantum Phase Space: Extended Spaces and Their Uses

11:45-12:30 Rafael Guardiola (University of Valencia, Spain) Van-der-Waals clusters: solid or liquid ?

12:30-13:00 Yaroslav Lutsyshyn (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Elastic transmission of atoms through helium films

Chair: Artur Polls (University of Barcelona, Spain)

15:00-15:45 Eckhard Krotscheck (University of Linz, Austria) Dynamic Many-Body Correlations

15:45-16:15 Stefan Janecek (University of Linz, Austria) Solving Schrödinger equations in strong magnetic fields:High-order operator splitting methods.

16:45-17:30 Harald Forbert (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) On the applicability of Centroid and Ring Polymer Path Integral Molecular Dynamics for Vibrational Spectroscopy

17:30-18:15 Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley, USA ) Squeezing and superposing many-body states of Bose gases in confining potentials

Thursday 26 March 2009

Chair: Mikko Saarela ( University of Oulu, Finland)

9:00-9:45 Joaquim Casulleras (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) High-order actions in zero-temperature quantum Monte Carlo

9:45-10:30 Sergio Blanes (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Splitting methods for explicitly time-dependent systems

11:00-11:45 Jordi Boronat (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) Higher-order Chin actions in path integral Monte Carlo

11:45-12:30 Leandra Vranješ Markić (University of Split, Croatia) Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of spin-polarized tritum

12:30-13:00 Closing remarks

13:00-15:00 Social lunch click here to see photos from the conference