Challenges in Stochastic Computation
PROGRAM OF TUTORIALS

September 25-27, 2002


September 25
1:30 - 3:00 pm

Tutorial 1: Introduction to Stochastic Computation
John Monahan, North Carolina State University
3:30 - 5:00 pm


Tutorial 2 (Part 1): Introduction to Gibbs Sampling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
Alan Gelfand, Duke University

 

September 26
8:30 - 10:00 am

Tutorial 2 (Part 2): MCMC with Applications to Hierarchical Models
Brad Carlin, University of Minnesota
10:30 am -12:30 pm
Tutorial 3: Overview of Perfect Simulation Methods
Duncan Murdoch, University of Western Ontario
2:30 - 3:30 pm

Tutorial 4 (Part 1): From Chain Polymers To Nonlinear Dynamic Systems:
An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo
Jun Liu, Harvard University
4:00 - 5:30 pm

Tutorial 4 (Part 2): Sequential Sampling Techniques
Simon Godsill, Cambridge University

 

September 27

9:30 - 11:30 am

Tutorial 5: Aspects of Computation for Genomic Variation Data
Simon Tavare, University of Southern California
1:30 - 3:00 pm

Tutorial 6 (Part 1): Advanced Monte Carlo Methods
Peter Green, University of Bristol
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Tutorial 6 (Part 2):Some Advanced MCMC Techniques
Jun Liu, Harvard University

 

 

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