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Monte Carlo Methods in the Physical Sciences [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2007.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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PDF-file: 7 pages; size: 0.3 Mbytes
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
I will review the role that Monte Carlo methods play in the physical sciences. They are very widely used for a number of reasons: they permit the rapid and faithful transformation of a natural or model stochastic process into a computer code. They are powerful numerical methods for treating the many-dimensional problems that derive from important physical systems. Finally, many of the methods naturally permit the use of modern parallel computers in efficient ways. In the presentation, I will emphasize four aspects of the computations: whether or not the computation derives from a natural or model stochastic process; whether the system under study is highly idealized or realistic; whether the Monte Carlo methodology is straightforward or mathematically sophisticated; and finally, the scientific role of the computation.
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E 1.99:ucrl-proc-231594
ucrl-proc-231594
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Published through SciTech Connect.
06/06/2007.
"ucrl-proc-231594"
Presented at: Winter Simulation Conference '07, Washington, DC, United States, Dec 09 - Dec 12, 2007.
Kalos, M H.
Funding Information
W-7405-ENG-48
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