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Sunday, October 25, 1998
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| 10:00 | Workshop Registration |
| 10:45-11:15 | Refreshments |
| 11:15-12:15 | Radford Neal (University of Toronto) "Tutorial on Monte Carlo Applications in Statistics" |
| 12:15-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Alistair Sinclair (University of California, Berkeley) "Polynomial Time Algorithms Via Markov Chain Monte Carlo" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Xiao-Li Meng (University of Chicago) "The Art of Data Augmentation" |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 4:30-5:30 | Stuart Whittington (University of Toronto) "Tutorial on Monte Carlo Applications in Statistical Physics" |
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Monday, October 26, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | David Ceperley (University of Illinois) "Random Walks with Uncertain Probabilities" |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Gareth Roberts (University of Cambridge) "Slice Sampler Markov Chains" |
| 12:15--2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Radford Neal (University of Toronto) "Review of Exact Sampling Methods" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Jesper Moller (Aalborg University) "A Review on Perfect Simulation for Spatial Processes" |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 4:30-5:30 | Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario) "Exact Sampling for Bayesian Inference: Dominated CFTP" |
| 5:30-6:30 | Reception |
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Tuesday, October 27, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | Antonietta Mira (University of Minnesota / Insubria University, Italy)
"Ordering Monte Carlo Markov Chains" |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Jim Fill (The Johns Hopkins University) "Perfect Sampling Algorithms and Two Notions of Monotonicity" |
| 12:15-2:00 | Lunch |
| 12:15- | Afternoon is Free Time |
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Wednesday, October 28, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | Julian Besag (University of Washington, Seattle) "Exact Markov Chain Monte Carlo p-values" |
| 10:45-11:45 | Coffee Break and Poster Session (Posters may remain posted all day) |
| 11:45-12:30 | Anthony Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) "Tutorial on Lattice Field Theory Monte Carlo" |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:30 | Karl Jansen (CERN) "The Polynomial Hybrid Monte Carlo Algorithm" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Anthony Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) "Monte Carlo Algorithms and Non-Local Actions" |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon Tea |
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Thursday, October 29, 1998
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| 9:45-10:45 | David Wilson (Microsoft) "Mixing Times of Tiling and Card Shuffling Markov Chains" |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | Stuart Whittington (University of Toronto) "Speeding up Convergence in MCMC - Some Case Studies From Statistical Mechanics" |
| 12:14-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-3:00 | Bernd Berg (Florida State University) "Recent Devlopments in Multicanonical and Related Methods" |
| 3:00-4:00 | Problem Session |
| 4:00-4:30 | Afternoon Tea and End of Conference |