Speakers:

• Michael Allen, University of Warwick - Molecular Simulation and Statistical Mechanics from a Practical Viewpoint

• Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - The Gibbs Sampler: Geometry and Algorithms

• Ben Leimkuhler, University of Edinburgh - Weak Convergence of Numerical Methods for Stochastic Gradient Systems in the T->Infinity Limit

• Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol - Exact Approximate Monte Carlo

• Tony Lelièvre, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées - Numerical Methods in Molecular Dynamics

• Maria Cameron, University of Maryland - Analysis Tools for Networks Representing Energy Landscapes

• Pierre Jacob, University of Oxford - On Non-Negative Unbiased Estimators

• Francis Pinski, University of Cincinnati - Theory of Fluctuations in a Thermodynamic System and the Limitations of the Onsager-Machlup Functional

• Rosalind Allen, University of Edinburgh - Trajectory Reweighting: Smart Sampling in Non-Equilibrium Simulations

• Jonathan Weare, University of Chicago - Stratification of Markov Processes for Rare Event Simulation

• Gabriel Stoltz, École des Ponts & Inria Rocquencourt - Computer Simulations: the Third Way of Doing Science 

• Arnaud Guyader, Université de Rennes - Rare Event Simulation for Molecular Dynamics 

• Michela Ottobre, Imperial College London - Diffusion Limit for Random Walk Metropolis Algorithm Started Out of Stationarity

• Christophe Chipot, Université de Lorraine/CNRS - Efficient Determination of Protein-Ligand Standard Binding Free Energies and Permeabilities with a Computational Microcalorimeter

• Jérôme Hénin, Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique - Ergodic Sampling in Biomolecular Simulations Using Adaptive Collective Variable Biases

• Antonietta Mira, Università della Svizzeria Italiana - Variance Reduction Strategies for MCMC Simulation

• Hilbert Kappen, Radboud University - Optimal Sampling for Optimal Control

• Johannes Zimmer, University of Bath - Entropic Flows and Their Stochastic Corrections for Particle Models

• Christian Robert, Université Paris-Dauphine & University of Warwick - Selection of Summary Statistics for ABC

• Hugo Touchette, University of Stellenbosch - Nonequilibrium Markov Processes Conditioned on Large Deviations

• Benjamin Jourdain, École des Ponts - Optimal Scaling of the Transient Phase of Metropolis Hastings Algorithms

• Alexandros Beskos, University College London - Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Applications in High Dimensions