NIC Series Volume 8:   Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics - Book of Abstracts - Friedel Hossfeld, Kurt Binder (Editors)   CCP 2001, 5 - 8 September 2001, Aachen, Germany ISBN 3-00-008236-0 September 2001, 500 pages   PDF

Computational Physics is today well-established as the third branch of physics in addition to experiment and theory. Research investigations range from small computer experiments on laptops to extended simulations which can only be performed by high-end supercomputers. Applications are found in almost every area of modern physics.

The Conference on Computational Physics 2001 (CCP 2001) is already the 13th in an international series of conferences which has served as a lively forum for computational physicists from around the world. The previous conferences were held in Boston (1989), Amsterdam (1990), San Jose (1991), Prague (1992), Albuquerque (1993), Lugano (1994), Pittsburgh (1995), Cracow (1996), Santa Cruz (1997), Granada (1998), Atlanta (1999), and Brisbane (2000). The CCP series is held jointly under the auspices of the Commission on Computational Physics (C20) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Computational Physics Group of the European Physical Society (EPS), and the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (APS). Since 1997, the conferences have been part of the CCP series which succeeded the EPS-APS Joint Conferences "Physics Computing" (PC) organized annually since 1989.

CCP 2001 is organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), which was founded jointly by Forschungszentrum Jülich and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY in order to support supercomputer-aided scientific research and development in Germany. Its major objectives are the nationwide provision of supercomputer capacity for research projects in the fields of modeling and computer simulation, the supercomputer-oriented research and development in selected fields of physics and other natural sciences by research groups in supercomputing applications, and education and training in scientific computing by organizing conferences, workshops, schools and courses. The latter objective in particular motivated the NIC's application to the Computational Physics Group of EPS to organize this year's Conference on Computational Physics.

The CCP series covers all fields of computational physics, this year summarized by the motto

Computational Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems

The following topics are treated in 16 invited plenary presentations, 48 invited talks, 72 oral contributions and nearly 300 posters:

• Materials Science
  (Electronic Structure, Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics, Nanostructures, etc.)
• Soft Matter (Polymers, Membranes, Proteins, etc.)
• Common Themes in Computational Statistical Physics and Lattice Gauge Theory
• Particle Beams and Accelerator Physics
• Astrophysics
• Turbulence and Reactive Flows
• Interdisciplinary Applications (Econophysics, Traffic Flow, etc.)
• Frontiers in Large Scale Computing
• Methodological Developments in Computer Simulation

The programme was compiled by the Local Programme Committee, which selected the plenary and invited speakers from suggestions given by the International Advisory Committee, and organized a refereeing process for the submitted oral and poster contributions. We wish to heartily thank all members of these various committees for their invaluable help.

Many organizations and individuals have contributed significantly to the success of the conference. We are grateful for the generous financial support provided by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) and the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung, by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the European Physical Society (EPS) and its East-West Task Force (EWTF), and last but not least by the Forschungszentrum Jülich. The American Physical Society (APS) formally endorsed the conference.

The financial support of Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Stiftung, BMBF, IUPAP, and Forschungszentrum Jülich enabled us to give more than 70 travel grants to conference attendees from developing and former east-block countries. This allowed the conference continue the tradition of the CCP series to be a place of intense exchange of scientific ideas and results between East and West, North and South.

Special thanks are due to Cray Inc. and the Verein der Freunde und Förderer der KFA for additional support.

For their most valuable help with the local arrangements we are greatly indebted to the Local Organization Committee of the Forschungszentrum Jülich who performed the lion's share of the work, namely Rüdiger Esser, Bernhard Krahl-Urban, Manfred Kremer, and Jörg Striegnitz, and last but not least the conference secretaries Elke Bielitza, Erika Wittig, and Yasmin Abdel-Fattah. Furthermore, we appreciate the work of Karolin Laukamp and Petra Thelen from the Aachen Tourist Service, who processed the registration and accomodation requests. Special thanks go to Anke Häming for her commitment concerning the composition and realization of this Book of Abstracts.

Jülich, September 2001
Friedel Hossfeld       Kurt Binder       Norbert Attig