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Time Tuesday Morning, 28th Nov., 2000
  Plenary session D WLB 203 Chair: M. G. Gu
09:00 Xiao-Li Meng - Perfect Simulation: Triumphs, Tricks and Trials
09:55 Break
  MCQMC for American Options WLB 203 Chair: K. S. Tan
10:25 D. Garcia - A Monte Carlo Procedure for Pricing American Options
10:55 P. P. Boyle, A. W. Kolkiewicz & K. S. Tan - Pricing American Style Options Using Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
11:25 A. Ibanez & F. Zapatero - MC Valuation of American Options through Computation of the Optimal Exercise Frontier
11:55 G. Yang - Simulating Bermudan Interest Rate Derivatives
  Parallel MC and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods WLB 204 Chair: W. Schmid
10:25 A. Uhl & W.C. Schmid - Defects in Parallel Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration
10:55 G. Ökten & A. Srinivasan - Parallel Quasi-Monte Carlo Applications on a Heterogeneous Cluster
11:25 I. Vattulainen - Testing the Quality of Random Numbers in Parallel Calculations
11:55 A. Karaivanova & M. Mascagni - Parallel Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Computing Extremal Eigenvalues
  Technical Session 2 NAB 209 Chair: J. S. Wang
10:25 C. Hayakawa & J. Spanier - Use of Perturbation Monte Carlo Methods for Early Detection of Cancer
10:45 C. K. Chan et al - Simulations of Granular Materials with MC SOC-like Rules
11:05 Y. J. Jou et al - Parallel MC Method for the Solution of Poisson Equation in Semiconductor Physics
11:25 W. Wagner - Monte Carlo Algorithms for Coagulation Processes
11:45 A. Fischer - An Uncoupling/Coupling MC Scheme with an Application to Molecular Dynamics
12:05 J. Ding & Z. Wang- A Parallel QMC Algorithm for Computing Physical Measures
12:25 Lunch (Renfrew Seafood Restaurant)
Time Tuesday Afternoon, 28th Nov., 2000
  MCQMC in Computer Graphics WLB 203 Chair: A. Keller
14:00 A. Keller - Strictly Deterministic Distribution Ray Tracing
14:30 W. Heidrich - Illuminating Micro Geometry Based on Precomputed Visibility
15:00 M. Pharr - MC Evaluation of Non-Linear Scattering Equations for Subsurface Reflection
15:30 T. Kollig - Efficient Bidirectional Path Tracing by Latin Supercube Sampling
  Contributed talk
16:00 Q. Xu & J. H. Sun - A New Computational Framework for Monte Carlo Global Illumination
  Monte Carlo Methods in Physics WLB 204 Chair: L. H. Tang
14:00 B. A. Berg - Multicanonical Simulations
14:30 C. K. Hu - Multicanonical Parallel Simulations of Proteins in PC Clusters
15:00 N. Kawashima - Cluster Algorithms in Physics ? Markov Chains on Space of Graphs
15:30 X. Hu - MC Simulation Study of Vortex States in High-TC Superconductivity
  Contributed talk
16:00 R. Kong & J. Spanier - Residual Versus Error for Transport Problems
  Technical Session 3 NAB 209 Chair: S. Tezuka
14:00 K. Takashima - On an Improvement of Pseudorandom Numbers by Hybrid Method
14:20 T. Schell - Efficient Large Scale Parameter Search for Prime LCGs and GLPs in a Distributed Environment
14:40 Z. Q. Yang - Test of Independence of More Than Two Sequences of Random Numbers
15:00 R. Craiu & X. L. Meng - Antithetic Variates and Fractals
15:20 M. Antipov - The Simulation of Continuous Distributions by Congruous Operator
15:40 D. Hu - Generating Pseudorandom Integer Strings
16:00 Z. H. Yang et al - Generating Samples from the Uniform Distribution on Some Domains in High Dimensional Space by Type II VDR
16:20 Break
  Plenary Session E WLB 203 Chair: J. Spanier
16:50 Jian-Sheng Wang - Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation Methods in Statistical Physics
17:45 End of Program