Each meeting will be devoted to a specific computational method, or to a class of related many-body techniques. Invited speakers will present novel applications to topical problems in Physics, Chemistry and other disciplines. The aim is to assess recent progress, as well as to foster scientific communication and exchange of ideas among many-body theorists and practitioners of similar techniques. This will hopefully promote methodological advances, through generalization and/or extension of approaches developed for different specific problems. The subject of this first meeting is Quantum Monte Carlo.

In order to provide a direct and relevant assessment of the effectiveness of current theoretical methods, as well as to point theorists toward novel research directions, a number of presentations will be given by experimental scientists.