Monte Carlo Methods
Monday 7 March 2011
Organisers: Mike Allen (Physics), Stefan Grosskinsky
All talks will be in Room B3.02 Mathematics Institute, Zeeman Building
Lunch, tea and wine will be in the Mathematics Common Room
Abstracts and slides
Programme 
- 12:00 - 12:40 Gareth Roberts (Warwick, Statistics)
Introduction to adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo
- 12:40 - 13:10 Mike Allen (Warwick, Physics)
Lattice peptide simulations using the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo method
13:10 - 14:00 LUNCH
- 14:00 - 14:40 David Wild (Warwick, Systems Biology)
Exploring the energy landscapes of protein folding simulations with Bayesian computation - 14:40 - 15:20 Adam Johansen (Warwick, Statistics)
Monte Carlo Solution of Integral Equations (of the Second Kind)
15:20 - 15:50 TEA
- 15:50 - 16:30 David Cheung (Warwick, Chemistry)
Monte Carlo simulations of interfaces - 16:30 - 17:10 Markus Kraft (Cambridge, Chemical Engineering)
Stochastic numerics for the gas-phase synthesis of nanoparticles - 17:10 - 17:50 Anthony Lee/Chris Holmes (Oxford, Statistics)
On the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation with advanced Monte Carlo methods
Short talks
- 17:50 - 18:10 Dan Barker (Warwick, Complexity)
Tempering Algorithm for Large-sample Network Inference - 18:10 - 18:30 Peter Man (Cambridge, Chemical Engineering)
Bayesian inference for expensive computer models in chemical engineering
from 18:30 WINE AND SNACKS
For further information contact:
MIRaW Programme Secretary
Mathematics Institute
Zeeman Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
E-mail: mrc@maths.warwick.ac.uk
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