Maintained by  Karl Entacher 

Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts

The 3rd IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo methods will be held in Salzburg, Austria, Faculty of Natural Sciences, September 10-14, 2001, jointly organized by the Departments of Mathematics and Scientific Computing and IMACS.

The purpose of the seminar is to provide a forum for the presentation of recent advances in the analysis, implementation and applications of Monte Carlo simulation techniques and, in particular to stimulate the exchange of information between specialists in these areas.

The topics should cover both theoretical developments:

random numbers

quasi-MC methods

numerical MC methods

statistical analysis

variance reduction

perturbation techniques

MC error analysis

and application fields:

particle transport

reliability analysis

quantum mechanics

statistical physics

simulation of random processes and fields

financial applications

. . .

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Robert Beauwens (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

Kurt Binder (University of Mainz)

Russel E. Caflisch (UCLA)

Ivan T. Dimov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Alain Dubus (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

George S. Fishman (University of North Carolina)

Alan Genz (Washington State University)

Stefan Heinrich (University of Kaiserslautern)

Peter Hellekalek (University of Salzburg)

Carlo Jacoboni (University of Modena)

Pierre L'Ecuyer (University of Montreal)

Gerhard Larcher (University of Linz)

Christian Lecot (Universite de Savoie)

Marzio Marseguerra (Politecnico di Milano)

William R. Martin (University of Michigan)

Harald Niederreiter (National University of Singapore)

Shigeyoshi Ogawa (Kanazawa University)

Karl Sabelfeld (WIAS-Berlin)

Gerhart I. Schuëller (University of Innsbruck)

Ilya M. Sobol' (Russian Academy of Sciences)

Jerome Spanier (Claremont Graduate Univ.)

Paula A. Whitlock (Brooklyn College)

Henryk Wozniakowski (Columbia University)

Peter Zinterhof (University of Salzburg)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Karl Entacher (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences & Technologies)

Wolfgang Ch. Schmid (University of Salzburg)

Andreas Uhl (University of Salzburg)

Conference Secretary: Bernadette Neureiter (mcm2001@cosy.sbg.ac.at)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Stefan Heinrich (University of Kaiserslautern)

Art B. Owen (Stanford University)

Michael Schreiber (TU Chemnitz)

Wolfgang Wagner (WIAS Berlin)

... to be continued ...

SPECIAL SESSIONS AND THEIR ORGANIZERS

A. Dubus and M. Marseguerra: "Monte Carlo in Particle Transport"

P. Hellekalek : "Random Numbers in Monte Carlo and Cryptography"

A. Keller : "Monte Carlo Methods in Computer Graphics"

H. Kosina and M. Nedjalkov : "Monte Carlo in Semiconductor Devices and Structures"

G. Larcher and P. L'Ecuyer : "Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Mathematics"

E. Novak : "Tractability of Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo"

S. Ogawa : "Dynamical System Theoretical Approach to quasi-Monte Carlo Methods"

K. Sabelfeld : "Stochastic Models of Turbulent Transport"

M. Schreiber : "Monte Carlo Simulation in Solid State Physics an Material Sciences"

C.J.K. Tan and V.N. Alexandrov : "Monte Carlo Methods in Linear Algebra and Applications"

P. Whitlock : "Quantum Monte Carlo Methods"

... to be continued ...

CALL FOR ORGANIZING SPECIAL SESSIONS

In order to result in a focused program we try to stimulate the organization of special sessions devoted to specific topics, see above for special sessions which are already planned.

Each of these sessions should consist of four to five talks on one specific theme. If you are interested in the organization of such a session in addition to those already planned, please e-mail the conference organizers your suggested title as soon as possible. After approval of your suggestion please provide the following material until April 27, 2001.

Special session title, name and address of the organizer

Titles, abstracts and authors of four to five presentations

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

If you intend to give a presentation at MCM2001 please submit an extended abstract (1000 words) to the conference e-mail address (mcm2001@cosy.sbg.ac.at) in LaTeX (preferred), Plain Text or MS-Word format. This material is due to April 27, 2001.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 27, 2001

Deadline for submission of extended abstracts (1000 words) and special session material

June 15, 2001

Notification of acceptance -- rejection

Sept. 10--14, 2001

Conference

Oct. 26, 2001

Deadline for submission of full papers for conference proceedings (to be published as special issue of IMACS journal Mathematics and Computers in Simulation)

CONFERENCE FEE

IMACS Members:

before July 20: EURO 250,-

later: EURO 285,-

Non IMACS Members:

before July 20: EURO 265,-

later: EURO 300,-

A registration form will be provided at the conference web-site. Payment should be performed preferably via Credit Card (Master Card or Visa), for Bank transfers an additional fee of EURO 30 will be charged, due to the higher transaction costs.

ACCOMODATION

An accomodation form is available now (we suggested Hotel Billroth as main conference hotel). Hotel reservation will be handled by Salzburg Congress, an external conference management organization.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For update informations, check out regularly the conference web-site. To be on our mailing list and get further information, please send a card or an e-mail message to the address listed below.

CONFERENCE ADDRESS

MCM2001
Department of Mathematics
University of Salzburg
Hellbrunnerstr. 34
A-5020 Salzburg

mail:

mcm2001@cosy.sbg.ac.at

fax:

++43 (0)662 6389 5309

Auspices: The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation