Research Training Group: Simulational Methods in PhysicsWelcome to the Research Training Group in Simulational Methods in the Physics of Complex Systems of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. Our institute is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie) of the University of Heidelberg. The Research Training Group is funded by the State of Baden Württemberg in the framework of the Landesgraduiertenförderung programme. This includes doctoral fellowships as well as structural support of the teaching programme. The group is closely linked with the Heidelberg Graduate School for Fundamental Physics within the Department, the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Science, and with the Graduate Academy of the University. The study programme will embrace a structured scheme for the completion of the individual doctoral theses as well as a general framework including a teaching programme and schemes for the promotion of interdisciplinary exchange, of international contacts, exchange, and dissemination, and of the promotion of young female researchers.. The scientific focus of the Research Training Group is set on the very similar numerical requirements present in different areas of theoretical physics in which internationally forefront research is pursued at the University of Heidelberg. Universal Monte Carlo methods form the basis of these requirements and are needed in projects in theoretical biophysics, in the theory of fundamental fields, the theory of macromolecules, and in the theory of ultracold atom gases. We envisage a Centre for Physics Computation to bundle the numerical needs on the physics side and form interfaces to the highly-developed computational resources as in the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) or the Max Planck Institutes for Nuclear Physics and Astronomy. Our research focuses on:
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