Time |
Tuesday Morning, 28th Nov., 2000 |
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Plenary session D WLB 203 |
Chair: M. G. Gu |
09:00 |
Xiao-Li Meng - Perfect Simulation: Triumphs, Tricks and Trials |
09:55 |
Break |
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MCQMC for American Options WLB 203
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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 |
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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 |
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Technical Session 2 NAB 209
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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 |
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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 |
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Contributed talk |
16:00 |
Q. Xu & J. H. Sun - A New Computational Framework for Monte Carlo Global Illumination |
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Monte Carlo Methods in Physics WLB 204
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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
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15:30 |
X. Hu - MC Simulation Study of Vortex States in High-TC Superconductivity |
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Contributed talk |
16:00 |
R. Kong & J. Spanier - Residual Versus Error for Transport Problems |
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Technical Session 3 NAB 209
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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 |
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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 |