XXVII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2015)

Abstract

The 27th IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics, CCP2015, was held in the heritage city Guwahati, in the eastern part of India, next to the mighty river Brahmaputra, during December 2-5, 2015. The Conference on Computational Physics is organized annually under the auspices of Commission 20 (C20) of the IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics). This is the first time it has been held in India. Almost 300 participants from 25 countries convened at the auditorium and lecture halls at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati for four days. Thirteen plenary speakers, fifty six invited speakers, three presnters from the computer industries and two hundred and eight contributory participants coverd a broad range of topics in computational physics and related areas. Thirty eight women participated in CCP2015 and seven of them presented invited talks. This volume of Journal of Physics: Conference Series contains the proceedings of the scientific contributions presented at the Conference.The main purpose of the meeting was to discuss the progress, opportunities and challenges of common interest to physicists engaged in computational research. Computational physics has taken giant leaps during the lat few years, not only because of the enormous increases in computer power but especially because of the development of new methods and algorithms. Computational physics now represents a third leg of research alongside analytical theory and experiments. A meeting such as CCP, must have sufficient depth in different areas and at the same time should be broad and accessible. The topics covered in this conference were: Materials/Condensed Matter Theory and Nanoscience, Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Phase Transitions, Quantum Chemistry and Atomic Physics, Quantum Chromodynamics, Astrophysics, Plasma Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Complex Systems: Chaos and Statistical Physics, Macroscopic Transport and Mesoscopic Methods, Biological Physics and Soft Materials, Supercomputing and Computational Physics Teaching, Computational Physics and Sustainable Energy.As organizers and editors of these Proceedings, we are very pleased with the number and the quality of the papers provided by the participants. The papers cover a good cross-section of what was presented at the meeting. We are sure that these will represent the state of the computational physics today. The remainder of this Preface contains lists detailing the organizational structure of CCP2015, endorsers and sponsors of the meeting, plenary and invited talks, and a presentation of the 2015 IUPAP C20 Young Scientist Prize.Finally, we would like to express our sincere thanks to our sponsors and endorsers: C20 Commission of International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP); Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society (APS); European Physicsl Society (EPS);Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAAPS), Intel Software; Nvidia; Fujitsu; Netweb Technologies; The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, and finally Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. We are grateful to the organizing committee, the International Advisory Board, the local organizing committee and participants who helped in making CCP2015 a success.