International Lecturers

Name: David Ceperley Title: Quantum Monte Carlo Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA E:mail:  ceperley@uiuc.edu Web address:  http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Faculty/profiles/Ceperley/ Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1] - 1116kb ::  [lecture 2] - 468kb  ::  [lecture 3] - 355kb  ::  [lecture 4] - 602kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 865kb

Name: Markus Diesmann Title: Synchronization in cortical neural networks: results, techniques, and tools Affliation: Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany E-mail:  diesmann@biologie.uni-freiburg.de Website address:  www.nest-initiative.org Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1 &  2] - 2331kb ::  [lecture 3 & 4] - 8897kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 304kb

Name: Ian Bush Title: Parallel algorithms on a cluster of PC's Affliation: Daresbury, UK E-mail:  I.J.Bush@dl.ac.uk Website address:  http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/database/staff.jsp?surname=bush Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1] - 2245kb ::  [lecture 2] - 329kb  ::  [lecture 3] - 304kb  ::  [lecture 4] - 508kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 1198kb

Name: Werner Krauth Title: Computational statistical physics: the example of hard spheres Affliation: Ecole Normale Superieure at Paris, France E-mail:  krauth@lps.ens.fr Web address:  http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/ Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1] - 806kb ::  [lecture 2] - 3776kb  ::  [lecture 3] - 2032kb  ::  [lecture 4] - 959kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 1058kb

Name: Domenico Giulini Title: Einstein's legacy, 100 years onwards Affliation: University of Freiburg, Germany E-mail:  giulini@physik.uni-freiburg.de Web address:  http://idefix.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~giulini/ Lectures can be found here:  http://idefix.physik.uni-freiburg.de/~giulini/writings.html#talks

Name: Sonja Gruen Title: Correlation analysis of multi-dimensional neuronal spike data Affliation: Free University Berlin, Germany E-mail: gruen@neurobiologie.fu-berlin.de Website address: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~sagruen/ Lecture during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture] - 5802kb

Name: Nandini Trivedi Title: New Phases and Quantum Phase Transitions Affliation: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay India and the Ohio State University, USA E-mail:  trivedi@mps.ohio-state.edu Web address:  http://theory.tifr.res.in/group/public/ntrivedi.html Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1] - 527.35kb  ::  [lecture 2] - 114.23kb  ::  [lecture 3] - 2601.60kb [lecture 4] - 534.03kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 847.14kb  ::  [lecture 6] - 1291.61kb

Name: Paul Ricker Title: Computational Astrophysics Affliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA E-mail:   pmricker@uiuc.edu Web address:  http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~pmricker/ Lectures during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture 1] - 2312kb  ::  [lecture 2] - 1239kb  ::  [lecture 3] - 933kb [lecture 4] - 1359kb  ::  [lecture 5] - 1631kb  ::  [lecture 6] - 4203kb

Local Lecturers

Name: Etienne Barnard Title: Artificial Intelligence Affliation: University of Pretoria E-mail:  ebarnard@up.ac.za Web address: Lecture during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture] - 581kb

Name: Assen Ilchev Title: Modelling Seismic events in South African Gold Mines Affiliation: Integrated Seismic System International E-mail:  assen@issi.co.za Web address: www.issi.co.za

Name: Robert Lindebaum Title: The method of lines for solving PDE's Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal E-mail:  lindebaumr@ukzn.ac.za Web address:  http://roger.phy.unp.ac.za/

Name: Phuti Ngoepe Title: Computational Materials Science at the University of the North Affiliation: University of the North E-mail:  ngoepep@unin.unorth.ac.za Web address:  http://mmc.unorth.ac.za/

Name: Clemens Dempers Title: Mathematica in Physics Affliation: Blue Stallion Technologies E-mail:  dempers@bluestallion.co.za Web address:  www.bluestallion.co.za

Name: Cathal Seoighe Title: Computational Biology in South Africa Affliation: South African Bioinformatics Institute/ University of Cape Town E-mail:  cathal@sanbi.ac.za Web address: http://www.sanbi.ac.za/ Lecture during Summer School (.pdf format): [lecture] - 52kb

Name: Francesco Petruccione Title: Monte Carlo Wave Function Methods for Open Quantum Systems Affliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal E-mail:  petruccione@ukzn.ac.za Web:  http://www.nu.ac.za/department/members/members.asp?dept=physicsdund&id=650000