Dr Neil Drummond
Senior LecturerResearch Interests
My research interests lie in the development and application of quantum Monte Carlo methods for calculating material properties from first principles. I am interested in a range of applications of these methods, to two-dimensional materials, to materials at high pressure and to electron(-hole) gases.
PhD Supervision Interests
Development and application of quantum Monte Carlo methods; first-principles studies of two-dimensional materials (graphene, silicene, boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides...).
PAX-HPC : Particles At eXascale On high Performance Computers
01/12/2021 → 25/03/2025
Research
Quantum Monte Carlo methods applied to van der Waals heterostructures
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo methods and the CASINO program: Applications to positronic materials and atomic gases
Invited talk
GPU acceleration of the CASINO quantum Monte Carlo program using OpenACC
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo: State of the art
Invited talk
Adhesion of Graphene to Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of positrons in electron liquids
Invited talk
Phase diagram and quasiparticle effective mass of the three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Oral presentation
Phase diagram and quasiparticle effective mass of the three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo studies of excitonic charge-carrier complexes in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides
Invited talk
Solving the Many-Particle Schrodinger Equation by Random Sampling Using the CASINO Program
Invited talk
Overview of continuum quantum Monte Carlo methods for one-dimensional systems
Invited talk
Charge-carrier complexes in monolayers and bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
Invited talk
Charge-carrier complexes in monolayers and bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
Invited talk
Charge-carrier complexes in monolayers and bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
Invited talk
Solving the many-electron Schroedinger equation by random sampling
Invited talk
Japan CASINO Tutorial Workshop 2017}
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Ellel St. John's CE Primary School
School Engagement
High-pressure phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen
Invited talk
The CASINO quantum Monte Carlo program: current status and future directions
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program X
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Solving the many-electron Schr\"{o}dinger equation by random sampling
Invited talk
High-Pressure Phase Diagram of Solid Molecular Hydrogen
Invited talk
High-pressure phase diagram of solid molecular hydrogen
Invited talk
Excitonic properties of two-dimensional semiconductors
Invited talk
S. N. Bose-JAIST School on Quantum Monte Carlo
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program IX
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Electronic and vibrational properties of monolayer hexagonal indium chalcogenides
Oral presentation
Electronic and vibrational properties of monolayer hexagonal indium chalcogenides
Oral presentation
Electronic structure of two-dimensional crystals of hexagonal boron nitride
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program VIII
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Electronic structure of two-dimensional crystals of hexagonal boron nitride
Oral presentation
Positrons in homogeneous electron gases
Invited talk
St. Christopher's High School, Accrington
School Engagement
JAIST International Winter School: "QMC Electronic Structure Calculation"
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Application of quantum Monte Carlo and density functional theory to a quantum impurity problem
Invited talk
Electronic structure of silicene in an external electric field
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program VII
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the Fermi liquid parameters of the 2D homogeneous electron gas
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo and density functional theory studies of positron annihilation in electron gases
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and density functional theory studies of positron annihilation in electron gases
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and density functional theory studies of positron annihilation in electron gases
Invited talk
First-principles study of silicene in an external electric field
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of the Fermi liquid parameters of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program VI
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
CASINO "Hands-On" Session, Psi-k/CECAM/CCP9 Biennial Graduate School in Electronic-Structure Methods
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program V
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
First-principles study of a positron immersed in an electron gas
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program IV
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Quasiparticle effective mass of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Invited talk
QMC studies of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program III
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Quantum Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Oral presentation
QMC studies of the two-dimensional homogeneous electron gas
Invited talk
Advanced School on QMC Methods in Physics and Chemistry
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
van der Waals interactions between thin, metallic wires and layers
Invited talk
QMC studies of quantum nanowires and nanolayers
Invited talk
Finite-size effects in 3D homogeneous electron gases
Oral presentation
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program II
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
QMC studies of quantum nanowires and nanolayers
Oral presentation
2007 Summer School on Computational Materials Science: Quantum Monte Carlo from Minerals and Materials to Molecules
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Electron emission from diamondoids: a DMC study
Invited talk
The quantum Monte Carlo method
Invited talk
Quantum Monte Carlo and the CASINO Program
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Positrons in homogeneous electron gases
Oral presentation
Optimisation of QMC trial wave functions by variance minimisation
Invited talk
Electron emission from diamondoids: a DMC study
Invited talk
Optimisation of Jastrow factors by variance minimisation and Electron emission from diamondoids: a DMC study
Oral presentation
The quantum Monte Carlo method
Invited talk
Introduction to the CASINO code
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Condensed Matter Theory
Condensed Matter Theory
Condensed Matter Theory
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