Ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo Tutorial

Dr. Ryo Maezono (PhD/Applied Physics) is a Professor at Science Tokyo, working on Materials and Informatics. He got his BSc (1995) and PhD (2000) in Applied Physics at Tokyo University, majoring condensed matter theory working on the phase diagrams of magnetic oxides. He was a JSPS fellow (Tokyo University/1999-2000), working on the magnetic properties of oxides. He got a postdoctoral position at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University (EPSRC fellow/2000-2002), and moved to NIMS (National Institute of Materials Science, Japan), as a tenure researcher (2001-2007). In 2007, he moved to JAIST and had organized a research group as a full Professor until 2025. From 2025, he moved to Science Tokyo as a management Professor in the division of Materials and Informatics. Since his postdoc in Cambridge, he has worked on Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) electronic structure calculations using massive parallel computations. He has published several DMC works using world top class huge parallel calculations, exploring cutting-edge of numerical quantum many-body problem. As an expert of DMC method, he has given several lectures on many-body problems at Osaka University, Kyushu University, Yokohama National University Kanazawa University etc., outside of JAIST. As a computer scientist, he has contributed also to the education of simulation science, which contents are published in his books (ISBN:978-4627818217, 978-4627170315, 978-9819909186, 978-4627170322). As a researcher of computational materials science, he leads several industrial collaborations with companies (Toyota-Motor/Sumitomo-Mining/Shin-Etsu Chemicals/Asahi grass Inc./Denso Inc./Morita Chemical Inc.), as well as those with experimental synthesis community in inorganic Chemistry.