JSM 2011 Online Program

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207 * ! Mon, 8/1/2011, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-B218
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Parallel, Adaptive, and Automated Monte Carlo Methods Appearing in JCGS — Invited Papers
JCGS-Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics , International Indian Statistical Association , Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics
Organizer(s): Richard A. Levine, San Diego State University
Chair(s): Richard A. Levine, San Diego State University
2:05 PM Divide and Conquer: A Mixture-Based Approach to Regional Adaptation for MCMC Radu Craiu, University of Toronto ; Yan Bai, University of Toronto ; Antonio Fabio Di Narzo, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2:35 PM The Polya Tree Sampler: Toward Efficient and Automatic Independent Metropolis-Hastings Proposals Timothy Hanson, University of South Carolina ; Joao Monteiro, University of Minnesota ; Alejandro Jara, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
3:05 PM On the Utility of Graphics Cards to Perform Massively Parallel Simulation of Advanced Monte Carlo Methods Anthony Lee, University of Oxford ; Chris Holmes, University of Oxford ; Arnaud Doucet, University of British Columbia ; Chris Yau, University of Oxford ; Mike Giles, University of Oxford
3:35 PM Floor Discussion



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