Markov Chain Monte Carlo:
innovations and applications in statistics, physics, and bioinformatics
(1 - 28 Mar 2004)

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Confirmed Visitors

(As at 22 March 2004)

NAME & AFFILIATION

PERIOD OF VISIT

TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK

Kannan Balaji
Singapore MIT Alliance
National University of Singapore
smakb@nus.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

- A decision support system for winner determination in multi-objective combinatorial auctions (Poster)

Bernd A. Berg
Florida State University
berg@hep.fsu.edu

1 - 13 Mar 2004

- Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and their statistical analysis (with web-based Fortran code) (4-hour tutorial)
  Presentation slides: Lecture 1..., 2..., 3..., 4...
- Rugged metropolis sampling for peptides

Julian E. Besag
University of Washington
julian@stat.washington.edu

12 - 18 Mar 2004

- Markov chain Monte Carlo for statistical inference (Tutorial lecture)
  Lecture notes: PDF

Henk W.J. Blöte
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
henk@tntnhbn.tn.tudelft.nl

15 - 28 Mar 2004

- Cluster simulations under a constraint

Kap Luk Chan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
eklchan@ntu.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

- Learning a multivariate Gaussian mixture model with the reversible jump MCMC algorithm
- Bayesian color image segmentation through MRF labeling with multivariate reversible jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Poster)

Rong Chen
University of Illinois at Chicago
rongchen@uic.edu

15 - 18 Mar 2004

- Sequential Monte Carlo methods and their applications: An overview and recent developments (Tutorial lecture)
  Presentation slides: PDF

Armand Doucet
University of Cambridge
ad2@eng.cam.ac.uk

21 - 29 Mar 2004
(tentative)

- New sequential Monte Carlo methods

David Draper
University of California, Santa Cruz
draper@ams.ucsc.edu

15 - 17 Mar 2004

- Strategies for MCMC acceleration

Chris Holmes
University of Oxford, UK
c.holmes@stats.ox.ac.uk

20 - 27 Mar 2004

- Auxiliary variable MCMC methods in Bayesian statistical pattern recognition models, with applications in functional genomics

Mark Huber
Duke University, USA
mhuber@math.duke.edu

9 - 21 Mar 2004

- Time dependent update functions for perfect sampling

Wolfhard Janke
Universität Leipzig, Germany
wolfhard.janke@itp.uni-leipzig.de

1 - 13 Mar 2004

- Multicanonical chain growth method for folding lattice proteins

Wilfrid Kendall
University of Warwick, UK
w.s.kendall@warwick.ac.uk

6 - 27 Mar 2004

- Perfect simulation (Tutorial lecture)
  Lecture notes: PDF
- Perfect perpetuity and GARCH

David P. Landau
University of Georgia
dlandau@hal.physast.uga.edu

7 - 14 Mar 2004

- An introduction to Monte Carlo methods in statistical physics (Tutorial lecture)
  Presentation slides: PDF

Cuilian Li
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
licl@sjtu.edu.cn

18 - 29 Mar 2004

 

Harald Niederreiter
National University of Singapore
nied@math.nus.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

- A survey of Quasi-Monte Carlo methods

David Nott
University of New South Wales, Australia
djn@maths.unsw.edu.au

1 - 12 Mar 2004

- Adaptive sampling schemes for Bayesian variable selection

Yutaka Okabe
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
okabe@phys.metro-u.ac.jp

18 - 25 Mar 2004

- Monte Carlo methods to calculate the density of states and their applications

Christian P. Robert
CREST-INSEE, France
xian@ceremade.dauphine.fr

17 - 23 Mar 2004

- Population Monte Carlo methods

Robert H. Swendsen
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
swendsen@andrew.cmu.edu

6 - 14 Mar 2004

- An introduction to clusters, histograms, optimization, and an adaptive approach in Monte Carlo simulations (Tutorial lecture)
- The entropy of classical systems of distinguishable particles

Elizabeth A. Thompson
University of Washington
thompson@stat.washington.edu

21 - 26 Mar 2004

- MCMC for the analysis of genetic data on pedigrees (2 sessions tutorial)
  Presentation slides: Lecture 1..., 2...
- Pseudo-Bayes MCMC for the estimation of multipoint linkage likelihoods
  Presentation slides: PDF

Jian-Sheng Wang
National University of Singapore
wangjs@cz3.nus.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

- Simulation algorithms for Potts models

Zhenhua Yao
National University of Singapore
smayzh@nus.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

 

Junni Zhang
University of Beijing
zjn@gsm.pku.edu.cn

18 - 27 Mar 2004

- Independent particle filters

Bo Zheng
Zhejiang University, China
zheng@zimp.zju.edu.cn

21 - 27 Mar 2004

- Numerical simulations of critical dynamics far from equilibrium

Robert M. Ziff
University of Michigan
rziff@umich.edu

21 - 26 Mar 2004

- Computer algorithms for percolation processes

GRADUATE STUDENTS

   

Youjin Deng
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Y.Deng@tnw.tudelft.nl

15 - 28 Mar 2004

- Applications of the geometric cluster algorithm (Contributed talk)
- Cluster simulation of the quantum transverse Potts model (Poster)

Zeng Nan
National University of Singapore
jqdkf@army.com

1 - 28 Mar 2004

 

Sugiarto Radjiman
National University of Singapore
g0300268@nus.edu.sg
sugiarto@cz3.nus.edu.sg

1 - 28 Mar 2004

 

Debasish Roy
University of Auckland
d.roy@auckland.ac.nz

14 - 26 Mar 2004

 

Xiaofeng Qian
Leiden University, The Netherlands
xiaofeng@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl

15 - 28 Mar 2004

- Cluster simulation of the antiferromagnetic triangular Ising model in a field (Poster)

 

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