Monte Carlo and Structure Optimization Methods
for Biology, Chemistry and Physics

Electronic Proceedings

B.A. Berg, H. Meirovitch, M.A. Novotny and P.A. Rikvold (Editors)

Speakers

Below is an alphabetical list of speakers at the workshop. Links to author's talks, where present, are indicated by the following images:

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Pedro Arce (FSU)
Role of the Material Structure on the Effective Diffusivities in (Molecurarly) Templated Materials for Macromolecules Separations by a Monte Carlo Simulation Approach

Canan Baysal (SCRI, FSU)
Efficiency of Simulated Annealing as a Global Structure Optimization Method for Peptides

A.H. Billoire (Saclay)
Numerical simulation of the Edwards-Anderson model with the multi-overlap algorithm

G.M. Buendía (Venezuela)
Magnetic Behavior of a Mixed Ising Ferrimagnetic Model in an Oscillating Magnetic Field

H.H. Gan (NYU)
Lattice Protein Folding with Two and Four-Body Statistical Potentials

N. Go (Kyoto)
Simulation with Selected Soft Variables

G.S. Grest (Sandia Nat. Lab.)
Molecular Simulation of Macromolecular Liquids: from Short Alkanes to Entangled Polymers

U.H.E. Hansmann (MTU)
Simulation of Peptides and Proteins in Generalized Ensembles

Naomichi Hatano (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
Bivariate Multicanonical Monte Carlo of the 3D $\pm J$ Spin Glass

Wolfhard Janke (Leipzig, Germany)
Universal Amplitudes in the FSS of Three-Dimensional Spin Models

Yi Jiang (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
Lattice Model for Cell Sorting

M. Kolesik (Slovak Republic)
A Projection Method for Statics and Dynamics of Lattice Spin Systems

D.P. Landau (Athens, GA)
Surface Induced Ordering and Disordering in Face-Centered-Cubic Alloys: A Monte Carlo Study

J.S. Liu (Stanford, CA)
The Use of Multiple-Try Method and Local Optimization in Metropolis Sampling

E. Marinari (Rome and Cagliari)
Finite Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses

Mihaly Mezei (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Monte Carlo Techniques for Simulating Lipid Bilayers

C. Micheletti (SISSA, Trieste)
Protein Structures and Optimal Folding Emerging from a Geometrical Variational Principle

Andrey Milchev (Bulgaria)
Escape Transition of a Polymer Chain: Phenomenological Theory and Monte Carlo Simulation

José D. Muñoz (Stuttgart University)
Basis and Applications of the Broad Histogram Method for Continuous Systems

Yuko Okamoto (IMS, GUAS, Japan)
Ab initio Predictions of Three-Dimensional Structures of Proteins by Monte Carlo Simulations

R. Pandey
Hybrid Simulation Methods to Study the Static and Dynamic Properties of Polymer Chains in Complex Systems

M. Peters (FSU)
Fokker-Planck Equation, Molecular Friction, and Brownian Dynamics for Single Structured Brownian Particles Near Structured Surfaces

H.A. Scheraga (Cornell)
Entropy Sampling Monte Carlo and Cooperative Protein Folding <not available>

E.I. Shakhnovich (Harvard)
Optimization in Conformational, Sequence and Alignment Space: A Statistical-Mechanical View on Protein Folding, Evolution and Design

R. Silver (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.)
Uses of Macrostate Transition Probabilities in Monte Carlo Simulations

D. Stauffer (Cologne)
Life, Love and Death: Models of Biological Reproduction and Aging

R.H. Swendsen (Carnegie Mellon)
Transition Matrix Monte Carlo Reweighting and Dynamics

S. Whittington (Toronto)
Monte Carlo Methods for Strongly Interacting Polymer System

Luc T. Wille (Florida Atlantic University)
Quenched and Annealed Searches on the Potential Energy Surface of Lennard-Jones Clusters

A.P. Young (Santa Cruz)
The Random Ising Ferromagnet in a Transverse Field; the Simplest Disordered Model with Quantum Phase Transition

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Updated 23 February 2000