Thursday, February 16, 2012

APS March Meeting App Available on iTunes

If you are heading to the March meeting this year, check out the APS March Meeting 2012 app available on iTunes.  It was released Feb 14, must be a happy valentine's day from the APS.

April meeting participants, stay tuned, the app is not available yet.

DCOMP Election Results are In ...

Dear DCOMPers

Congratulations to Councilor Steven Gottlieb, Vice Chair Kenneth Jordan, Secretary/Treasurer Jim Freericks and Members at Large Salman Habib and Scott Parker.

The bylaw changes were also approved.



Friday, February 3, 2012

Announcing 3rd EU-US HPC Summer School

Hi DCOMPers,

This just in ...

Announcing the third EU-U.S. Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, June 24-28, 2012, Dublin, Ireland
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project and the European Union Seventh Framework Program’s Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) are pleased to announce the third International Summer School on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences, June 24-28, 2012, in Dublin, Ireland.


After the success of summer schools in Catania, Sicily, in 2010 and in South Lake Tahoe, California, in 2011, the third summer school will take place in Dublin, the capital of the “Green Island.”
The summer school is designed to foster international and multidisciplinary research collaborations with U.S. and European graduate and postdoctoral scholars. Leading American and European computational scientists and HPC technologists will present a variety of topics, including:
• An overview of EU and U.S. cyberinfrastructure
• HPC challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer science, chemistry, and physics) • HPC Programming Proficiencies
• Performance Analysis & Profiling
• Algorithmic Approaches & Numerical Libraries
• Data Intensive Computing
• Scientific Visualization


The expense-paid program will benefit advanced scholars from European and U.S. institutions who currently use HPC to conduct research.


Further information and application: https://www.xsede.org/web/summerschool12 


Contacts:
XSEDE:
Scott Lathrop
NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States Email: lathrop@illinois.edu

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PRACE:
Hermann Lederer
RZG, Max Planck Society, Germany Email: lederer@rzg.mpg.de

More information:
www.prace-ri.eu www.xsede.org
Simon Wong
ICHEC, Ireland
Email: simon.wong@ichec.ie 

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

For our undergraduates and their mentors

Hi DCOMPers,

There are a series of events at the March APS Meeting that you might want your undergraduates to attend. As part of the Future of Physics Days there is a SPS Undergraduate Research Session on Monday and Tuesday (2/27 and 2/28), a Mentor/Student Reception on Monday night, a Graduate School Fair Reception on Tuesday afternoon, Networking Sessions for students and more.... For details check out 

http://www.aps.org/programs/education/undergrad/students/futurephysics/fpd2012/march/index.cfm

Recruitment Opportunities at the APS March and April Meetings

Hi DCOMPers,


For those of you who do not follow news from Crystal Bailey (Education and Careers Program Manager of APS), there are some opportunities for recruitment at the upcoming APS meetings.


At the March Meeting in Boston, there will be a limited number of tables in the Graduate School Fair, for representatives from departments to meet with students, to talk about graduate research opportunities. 
There will be a reception for students on Tuesday, February 28 with more time to interact with graduate students. The deadline for the event is January 27 (one week from today).  For more information, and to register your department for this event, please visit:


Secondly,  for the April Meeting in Atlanta, the APS is now accepting applications for Future of Physics Days (FPD) travel awards, for undergraduates presenting the April meeting.  Support is available at the $200 and $1000 levels.  For more information about the award—including a link to the application form—visit:


2012 Summer School on Computational Materials Science Quantum Monte Carlo: Theory and Fundamentals

Hi DCOMPers,


We wanted to let you know about a summer school happening this July. This information was provided by Amy Young on behalf of David Ceperly.

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2012 Summer School on Computational Materials Science
Quantum Monte Carlo: Theory and Fundamentals

Date: July 23-27, 2012 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://www.mcc.illinois.edu/summerschool/2012/

Summary: Brings together scientists from geophysics,
physics, materials science, chemistry and high-performance computing
to learn fundamentals of Quantum Monte Carlo theory and its
applications. Includes morning lectures and afternoon interactive
laboratories.
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Friday, October 7, 2011

March Meeting Deadlines Are Approaching

Dear DCOMP,

It is time to think about the March Meeting!  We have an exciting and broad list of computational physics focus topics and sorting categories, see below for a list.

The deadline for submitting your contributed talk is Friday, November 11.  Consider contributing to a DCOMP inspired session and attending the focus sessions!

To give you a taste of the focus sessions, check out "What is Computational Physics?"
You are encouraged to contribute talks in a broad range of topics  - everything from advanced resources and methods for research,  to curricula,  to funding and administrative issues, to ... well ...  own ideas of "what is comp physics?"  The invited speakers are Thom Dunning, director of the Institute for Advanced Computing and Applications at NCSA and Nora Sabelli, senior consultant at the Center for Technology and Learning at SRI and co-PI of an NSF funded center on Science of Learning.

Further details are available on the APS March Meeting website http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/.




COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS FOCUS TOPICS:
16.1.1 Computational Frontiers in Quantum Spin Systems
16.1.2 Modeling of Rare Events
16.1.3 What is Computational Physic? Advances in Research, Education, and Policy
16.1.4 Friction, Fracture and Deformation Across Length Scales (DCOMP/GSNP)
16.1.5 Multiscale Modeling (DCOMP/DMP) [same as 03.1.7]
16.1.6 Simulations of Matter at Extreme Conditions (DCOMP/DMP/GSCCM)
16.1.7 Non-Adiabatic Dynamics in Irradiated Materials (DCOMP/DMP)
16.1.8 Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Oxides (DMP/DCOMP) [same as 07.1.1 and 11.1.1]
16.1.9 Fe-based Superconductors and Related Compounds: Synthesis, Characterization, and Modeling (DMP/DCOMP) [same as 09.1.1]
16.1.10 Computational Design of New Materials (DMP/DCOMP) [same as 12.1.6]
16.1.11 Physics of Energy Storage Materials (DMP/GERA/FIAP/DCOMP) [same as 23.1.4 and 22.1.3]
16.1.12 Frontiers in Computational Thermodynamics of Materials (FIAP/DCOMP) [same as 23.1.5]
16.1.13 Spin Glasses: Advances, Algorithms and Applications (GSNP/DCOMP) [same as 03.1.4]
16.1.14 Physics of Proteins I: Structure and Folding (DBIO/DPOLY/DCOMP) [same as 04.1.1 and 01.1.27]
16.1.15 Single-Molecule Biological Physics I: Nucleic Acids (DBIO/DPOLY/DCOMP) [same as 01.1.22 and 04.1.4]
16.1.16 Single-Molecule Biological Physics II: Proteins (DBIO/DPOLY/DCOMP) [same as 04.1.5 and 01.1.23]
16.1.17 Structure and Dynamics of Membranes (DBIO/DPOLY/DMP/DCOMP) [same as 01.1.25 and 04.1.10]

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS STANDARD SORTING CATEGORIES:
16.2 Electronic Structure
16.3 Classical Many-particle Systems
16.4 Quantum Many-particle Systems
16.5 Astrophysics, Relativity, Fluid Dynamics, and Plasma Physics
16.6 New Technologies in Hardware or Software and their Application
16.7 High-Pressure Physics (DCMP/DCOMP)
16.8 Equations of State & Phase Transitions (DMP/DCOMP) [same as 18.1]

PHYSICS EDUCATION FOCUS TOPICS OF POSSIBLE COMPUTATIONAL INTEREST ... 
24.1.1 Research Collaboration Between Mentors and Undergraduate Students (FEd/SPS) [same as 25.1.1]
PHYSICS EDUCATION STANDARD SORTING CATEGORIES OF POSSIBLE COMPUTATIONAL  INTEREST ... 
24.5 Undergraduate Education (For undergraduate research, see 25.2)
24.6 Graduate Education