Nowadays Quantum Many-Body Theory (QMBT) has become an essential tool for
all physicists. By its very nature the field is interdisciplinary, and its aims are
of paramount importance in almost all areas of modern physical science and material research.
Simply stated, they are to understand and predict the emergent properties
of macroscopic matter of all kinds, which have their underlying origins
in the fundamental interactions between, and the quantum-mechanical nature
of, the elementary constituents at the most microscopic level relevant
to the energy range under consideration.
The selected main topics for this School are: The Coupled Cluster Methods,
Correlated Basis Function Theory and Monte Carlo Methods.
These particular topics have been chosen since they are widely recognized
to be among the available formulations of QMBT
providing powerful techniques, widely applicable and numerically
accurate at the present attainable levels of implementation.
Furthermore, the future evolution of the field
depends to a large measure on the possibility to establish links between
these different methods, and especially to devise hybrid procedures that
can build even further upon the huge strengths and already great advantages
of each theory. One of the main objectives of the School will be to present
the topics in such a way that the participants are motivated to imagine
and discuss with the experts the future developments and applications of the field.