The purpose of the Conference on Computational Physics 2000 (CCP2000) is to provide an international forum for discussion of a range of topics relevant to all areas of computational physics in the new millennium.
The Conference on Computational Physics 2000 is the twelfth of an international series of conferences held previously in Boston, Amsterdam, San Jose, Prague, Albuquerque, Lugano, Pittsburgh, Cracow, Santa Cruz, Granada, and Atlanta. The CCP series is held jointly under the auspices of the Commission on Computational Physics (C20) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society (APS), and the Computational Physics Group of the European Physical Society (EPS). This year, the CCP2000 conference is also supported by the Physical Society of Japan.
The conferences in Santa Cruz (1997), Granada (1998), and Atlanta (1999) were parts of the CCP series that is a successor of EPS-APS Joint Conferences "Physics Computing" (PC) organized annually since 1989. CCP1998 in Granada (Spain) attracted about 350 participants. It had a special focus on modeling collective phenomena in complex systems and also contained an entire session devoted to educational issues. CCP1998 was held jointly with the 5th Granada Seminar on Computational Physics. The 6th Granada Seminar is to be held on 4-9 September, 2000. CCP1999 was held at the APS Centennial Meeting (March 22-26, 1999) at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
The IUPAP sponsorship of computational physics conferences spread to Asia for the 4th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP4), held in Singapore, 2-4 June, 1997. Previously, the ICCP series was held in Beijing (1988 and 1993) and Taiwan (1995). The 5th International Conference on Computational Physics (ICCP5) was held in Kanazawa, Japan (October 11-13, 1999).The Organizing Committee members of CCP2000 support the idea of coordinating the activities of computational physics communities all over the world under a unified organization. We are hoping for the success of CCP2000 in this context.
Computers have an impact on every field of scientific, technological and engineering endeavour, often providing the only means for the analysis of complex phenomena and the control of complex technological, medical and industrial processes. A substantial fraction of a research or technological project's lifetime can be absorbed in the development of suitable computational tools meaning that significant benefits arise in many research and technological areas through any increase in efficiency in software development. Computational techniques developed in one field often have wide and sometimes surprising applicability to other fields. One desired outcome of the CCP 2000 conference is to bring together computational researchers from many fields from Australia and from around the world to share algorithms and establish computational 'best practise'.
A country's scientific, technological and engineering capability is entirely dependent on the quality of education offered to its young people. A well rounded education to equip students with the capacity to enter any scientific, technological or engineering field must increasingly exploit computers and computer networks to provide students access to hands-on modelling and simulation environments, data analysis and visualization capabilities and more general computer awareness. The CCP 2000 conference will continue the tradition established during CCP 1998 of having several sessions devoted entirely to education issues. This principle focus will bring together educators from around Australia and the world. The CCP 2000 emphasis on Education issues will consider the impact on education of new computer technologies (numeric and symbolic), graphics and data visualization techniques and enhanced modelling and simulation capabilities.
Computational physics has a fairly broad scope which draws participants from many diverse fields allowing researchers to establish working relationships with others in widely divergent areas which exploit similar computational or educational techniques. For example, a computational chemist will find an audience for a presentation on the calculation of molecular properties from first principles of quantum physics, and then be interested in attending a talk by a computational biologist analysing drug properties by combining calculations with X-ray scattering measurements. Similarly, economic theory draws on chaotic dynamical systems, encryption theory, computational fluid dynamics, and quantum field theory physics to model the financial pricing of stock options.
The year 2010 is widely accepted as the year in which Moore's Law (which sees a doubling of computer capabilities every 18 months) ceases to operate. This forecast is confidently made as quantum mechanics requires that sub-micron sized chip components cease to operate classically and quantum features such as tunnelling become dominant. With 10 year lead times common for the design and construction of new chip plants, now is the time for industry to be exploring quantum computation and quantum computers.
The Australian physics environment provides strong support for optical physics and for acoustic physics via the Acoustical Society of Australia and the Optical Society of Australia. At present there is not corresponding organism for the support of computational researchers, technologists or engineers within Australia. A planned outcome of the CCP 2000 conference is to provide a stimulus for the formation of a computational community in Australia covering many diverse fields of interest.
Important Dates
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CCP2000 Secretariat
Department of Physics,
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Qld 4072,
AUSTRALIA
Fax: +61-7-3365 1242
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