<div>Hello,</div><div> </div><div>I'd like to announce another LA-SiGMA course that will be offered in the Spring of 2012.</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Les Butler and Dr. Jinghua Ge are teaching a course on 3D visualization. I have attached a PDF flyer with the course information.</div>
<div> </div><div>Please contact me at <a href="mailto:lgalat1@lsu.edu">lgalat1@lsu.edu</a> if you are interested in registering for this course.</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Leigh<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Leigh Townsend <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lgalat1@tigers.lsu.edu">lgalat1@tigers.lsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div>Hello,</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Jarrell and Dr. Moreno are each teaching one course this spring </div><div>(beginning Jan 17th to May 4th, 2012). I have posted the course information below.</div><div> </div><div>Please read over the course descriptions and contact either Dr. Jarrell or </div>
<div>Dr. Moreno if you are interested in either course. Please pass this information</div><div>along to any student you think would be interetested.</div><div> </div><div>We would like to know by the end of next week (Dec. 16th) about students in other<br>
LaSigma institutions to be able to test the Polycom connections before<br>the Christmas break.</div><div> </div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Leigh Townsend</div><div> </div><p>****************************************************************************</p>
<p><strong>Many Body Theory</strong> focuses on advanced many-body techniques in material science,<br>and is taught by Mark Jarrell. If students were interested, the first month<br>of the course will be dedicated to discuss advanced statistical mechanics, including<br>
the physics of phase transitions (scale invariance near the critical point, scaling,<br>renormalization group, etc). The rest of the course would be focused in many body<br>theory either using a conventional approach (Gellman-Low, Wick's theory) or a<br>
path-integral based approach. Non-equilibrium Green function formalism, the Keldysh<br>formalism, or even the Wagner formalism could be also discussed. In addition, several<br>many-body numerical methods are derived and used in class projects, including Dynamical<br>
Mean Field Approximation, Dynamical Cluster Approximation and renormalization group.<br>A basic course in Condensed Matter/Solid State Physics (Ashcroft/Mermin) is<br>a suggested pre-requisite for this course.<br>The final schedule has not been decided but classes will meet twice per week, as for example,<br>
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:10 to 10:30 a.m. Central US time.</p><p><br><strong>PHYS 7411 (Computational Physics)</strong> is taught by Karen Tomko (Ohio Supercomputer Center) and<br>Juana Moreno (Louisiana State University).<br>
It focuses on high performance computing (HPC) and the techniques used in designing<br>and implementing computationally intensive applications on HPC systems. High performance<br>systems including traditional parallel supercomputers, Linux clusters, and hardware<br>
accelerators (such as GPUs and FPGAs) will be discussed. The course will focus on<br>parallelization and memory access optimization for computationally intensive applications<br>in science and engineering.<br>Classes meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8:40-9:30 a.m. Central US time.</p>
<p>For more information, please visit the course Web site at <a href="http://www.pirealps.org/" target="_blank">http://www.pirealps.org/</a> or<br>contact Mark Jarrell at <a href="mailto:jarrellphysics@gmail.com" target="_blank">jarrellphysics@gmail.com</a> or Juana Moreno at <a href="mailto:moreno@phys.lsu.edu" target="_blank">moreno@phys.lsu.edu</a>.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br></p><div><font size="4" face="tahoma,sans-serif">Leigh Townsend</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Outreach Coordinator for LA-SiGMA</font></div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><font size="4" face="tahoma,sans-serif">Leigh Townsend</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Outreach Coordinator for LA-SiGMA</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Louisiana State University </font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">402 Choppin Hall</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Baton Rouge, LA 70803</font></div>
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