Session 6 Markov Methods and Numerical Algorithms

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Room: Mencken
Chair: Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada

1:30-1:47 Using Stopping Times to Bound Mixing Times: Igor Pak, Yale University
1:50-2:07 Efficient Exact Sampling From the Ising Model Using Swendsen-Wang: Mark L. Huber, Cornell University
2:10-2:27 Sampling Spin Configurations of an Ising System: Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology; and David Wilson, Microsoft Corporation

tjf, 912/99, MMD, 10/13/98