This is a "status report" based on the presentations and discussions which took place during the 14th Annual Workshop on Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics at the Center for Simulational Physics at the University of Georgia in February 2001. It provides a broad overview of the most recent advances in the field, spanning a wide range of topical areas in simulational condensed matter physics. These include recent developments in simulations of classical statistical mechanics models, electronic structure calculations, quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and simulations of polymers. New physical results and novel simulational and data analysis methods are presented.

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Over the last 30 years, Professor David P. Landau's trailblazing research achievements and influential leadership have helped establish computer sim­ ulation as a powerful and incisive mode of scientific investigation, now on a par in the physical sciences with experimental and theoretical research. This year, we were very pleased to organize a special one-day symposium honor­ ing the 60th birthday of our distinguished colleague and friend. This event was held in conjunction with and immediately following the annual computer simulations workshop that Professor Landau founded 14 years ago. Many of the papers presented at this honorary symposium are integrated into this pro­ ceedings volume, and the accompanying photograph of participants serves to commemorate this very special event. This volume contains both invited papers and contributed presentations on problems in both classical and quantum condensed matter physics. We hope that each reader will benefit from specialized results as well as profit from exposure to new algorithms, methods of analysis, and conceptual devel­ opments.

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1 Computer Simulation Studies in Condensed Matter Physics: An Introduction.- I Nonequilibrium and Dynamical Behavior.- 2 Nonequilibrium Energy Transport in Multiphase System.- 3 Dynamics of Dislocations in a Two-dimensional System.- 4 Recent Development in Nonequilibrium Relaxation Method.- 5 Dynamic Phase Diagram for a Periodically Driven Kinetic Ising Ferromagnet: Finite-size Scaling Evidence for the Absence of a Tri-critical Point.- 6 First-Principles Parameter Estimation for Dynamic Monte Carlo of a Lattice-Gas Model.- II Clusters, Films, and Interfaces.- 7 Gold Microclusters (Aun; n = 3-13): A Molecular Dynamics Computer Simulation.- 8 On the Ground State Structure of Adsorbed Monolayers: Can One Find them by Monte Carlo Simulation?.- 9 Simulation of the Early Stages of Growth on a Patterned Substrate.- 10 Ions and Other Solutes at the Ice/Water Interface.- 11 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Droplet Spreading Process for Metallic Phases: The Low Energy Cluster-Substrate Impacts.- 12 Universal Expression for Blocking Cone Size in Low Energy Ion Scattering Based on MD Simulations.- III Phase Transitions.- 13 Critical Phenomena at the Surface of Systems Undergoing a Bulk First Order Transition: Are They Understood?.- 14 Analysis of the Density of Partition Function Zeroes: A Measure for Phase Transition Strength.- 15 The Spectrum of Eigenvalues in the Renormalization Group Theory of Phase Transitions.- IV New Methods and Approaches.- 16 Methods for Computing Density of States for Statistical Mechanical Models.- 17 New Cluster Method for the Ising Model.- 18 Low Temperature Dynamic Monte Carlo Simulations with a Phonon Heat Bath for Square-Lattice Ising Ferromagnets.- 19 Applications of the Probability-Changing Cluster Algorithm and Related Problems.- 20 Exponential Product Computing-Scheme for Time-Dependent Interactions Including the Kohn-Sham Hamiltonian.- 21 Visualization and Real-Time Collaboration over Internet-2.- V Quantum Systems / Electronic Structure.- 22 Chiral Symmetry Versus the Lattice.- 23 The Stochastic Series Expansion Method for Quantum Lattice Models.- 24 Superconductivity with a Meron-Cluster Algorithm.- 25 Advances in the Investigation of the Minus Sign Problem for the Fermionic Case.- 26 New Variational States for t - J Ladders.- 27 Ab-initio Study of the Ground-State Phase Diagram of the Icosahedral Ti-Zr-Ni Quasicrystal.- 28 Geometric Theory of Stress Fields for Quantum Systems at Finite Temperature.- VI Polymers and Complex Systems.- 29 Phase Behavior of Binary Polymer Blends in Thin Films.- 30 Statistics of an Age Structured Population with Two Competing Species: Analytic and Monte Carlo Studies.- 31 Including Hydrodynamic Interactions in Acicular Models of Magnetic Colloids.- 32 Simulation of the Dynamics of Polymers in Solution via a Hybrid Molecular Dynamics-Lattice Boltzmann Scheme.- 33 Frustrated Spring-Network Model for Crosslinked Polymer Surfaces.- 34 The Wonderful World of Granular Ratchets.- List of Contributors.