Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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52
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Sunday, August 9, 2015 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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IMS
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Abstract #314514
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View Presentation
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Title:
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Stratification of Markov Processes for Rare Event Simulation
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Author(s):
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Jonathan Weare*
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Companies:
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The University of Chicago
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Keywords:
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Monte Carlo ;
Umbrella Sampling ;
Interacting particle
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Abstract:
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I will discuss an ensemble sampling scheme based on a decomposition of the target average of interest into subproblems that are each individually easier to solve and can be solved in parallel. The most basic version of the scheme computes averages with respect to a given density and is a generalization of the Umbrella Sampling method for the calculation of free energies. Our framework and a detailed perturbation analysis for Markov Chains clearly reveal the utility of the approach. I will also discuss extensions of the stratification philosophy to the calculation of dynamic averages with respect a given Markov process. The scheme is capable of computing very general dynamic averages and offers a natural way to parallelize in both time and space.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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