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WE-Heraeus Summer School
Fast Methods for Long-Range Interactions |
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Parallel computing and computer simulations of complex particle
systems including charges have an ever increasing impact in a broad
range of fields in the physical sciences, e.g. in astrophysics,
statistical physics, plasma physics, material sciences, physical
chemistry and biophysics. During the summer school, which is funded by
the German Heraeus-Foundation, various methods and algorithms are
introduced and presented which aim to reduce the computational
complexity of the evaluation of long-range interactions which tend to
dominate these types of simulation, e.g. the Fast Multipole Method,
Barnes-Hut Tree Method, Multigrid or FFT based
methods. Parallelization of these methods will be shown and discussed
in detail.
In a morning session there will be talks and tutorials on fast algorithms and methods for Coulomb solvers. In the afternoon session there will be hands-on training courses for different methods and applications. Early on there will be also an introduction to parallel programming and computing. The school is aimed at PhD students and postdocs working in fields of computational science, in particular physics, computational chemistry or numerical mathematics who want to learn about modern methods and algorithms for the evaluation of long range interactions, or who want to apply these techniques in their own simulation codes. |
last change 02.03.2011 |
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