This Winter School continues a series of schools and conferences in Computational
Science organized by the John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC). The topics of
the School, Quantum Monte Carlo and Quantum Molecular Dynamics, play an outstanding
role in many NIC research projects which use the supercomputing facilities provided by
the Central Institute for Applied Mathematics (ZAM) of the Research Centre Jiilich. The
programme of the Winter School covers modem quantum simulation techniques and their
implementation on high-performance computers, in particular on parallel systems. The
focus clearly is on numerical methods which are tailored to treat large quantum systems
with many coupled degrees of freedom ranging from superfluid Helium to chemical
reactions. Among others, the following topics are treated by twenty-five lectures: