The first Waterloo DMRG Winter School will be held at the University of Waterloo on March 18th, 2011. 

The Winter School is a one-day event designed to bring together students, postdocs and faculty from Ontario, Canada, and abroad, in a relaxed setting to gain an introductory understanding of the Density Matrix Renormalization Group method in the physical sciences.  The first half of the workshop is intended as a pedagogical introduction to the DMRG methodology, accessible to graduate students considering pursuing DMRG in their research.  The school will include an introductory DMRG code and tutorial.  The second half of the workshop will give a flavor for some of the research being performed by DMRG practitioners in Ontario Universities and around the world.

The one-day workshop will be held at the Institute for Quantum Computing on Waterloo's north campus.  Since it will be an all-day event, coffee breaks, meals, and parking will be arranged.

Topics

WDMRG11 talks and tutorials will include the following topics:

• Introduction to finite and infinite size DMRG sweeping algorithms
• Energy, correlation functions, and entanglement measures
• Time-dependent DMRG
• DMRG for spin and fermion models
• Optimization and implementation of symmetries 
• Applications of DMRG in Physics and Chemistry