A provisional version of the schedule is available below (pdf version here). All abstracts which have been received so far have been posted to the abstracts page.

Monday

8:30am		Registration
9:00am		Jon Machta - Parallel Tempering and Population Annealing for Rough Free Energy Landscapes
9:45am		David Yllanes - The low-temperature phase of Ising spin glasses: parallel-tempering simulations with sample-dependent thermalisation on the Janus computer
10:10am		Yukito Iba - Rare Event Sampling using Multicanonical Monte Carlo
10:35am		Morning tea / Registration
11:10am		Peter Young - Monte Carlo Simulations of Heisenberg Spin Glasses
11:55am		Piotr Kowalczyk - Microscopic model of carbonaceous nanoporous molecular sieves - anomalous transport in molecularly confined spaces
12:20pm		Michael Bachmann - Hierarchical Subphase Transitions in Molecular First-Order Nucleation Processes
12:45pm		Lunch
2:00pm		Victor Martín-Mayor - Monte Carlo simulations of (quasi) constrained ensembles
2:25pm		Beatriz Seoane - Effective potential study of hard-spheres crystallization
3:10pm		Gerd Schröder-Turk - Hard Sphere Liquids in Complex Pores
3:35pm		Afternoon tea
4:00pm		Alan Sokal - Overcoming critical slowing-down: Where do we stand 23 years after Swendsen and Wang?
5:00pm		Finish

Tuesday

9:00am		Wolfhard Janke - Error Estimation and Reduction with Cross Correlations
9:45am		Ebrahim Foulaadvand - Optimisation of quantum Monte Carlo wave function: steepest descent method
10:10am		Manolo Per - Efficient calculation of unbiased estimates in diffusion quantum Monte Carlo
10:35am		Morning tea
11:10am		Henk Blöte - Potts models with long-ranged interactions
11:55am		Munetake Sasaki - Stochastic Cutoff Method for Long-Range Interacting Systems
12:20pm		Peter Anders - Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for bosonic impurity problems
12:45pm		Lunch
2:00pm		Jesus Salas - Dynamic critical behavior of the Wang-Swendsen-Kotecky algorithm for two-dimensional Potts antiferromagnets
2:45pm		Elmar Bittner - Replica-Exchange Cluster Algorithm
3:10pm		Hidemaro Suwa - Markov Chain Monte Carlo without Detailed Balance and Bounce-free Worm Algorithm
3:35pm		Afternoon tea
4:00pm		David Landau - Exploring Complex Free Energy Landscapes with Wang-Landau Sampling
5:00pm		Finish
7:00pm		Dinner at Bokchoy Tang

Wednesday

9:00am		Ian Snook - The observation of formation and annihilation of solitons and standing strainwave superstructures in a two-dimensional colloidal crystal
9:45am		George Opletal - Hybrid Reverse Monte Carlo Modelling of Disordered Materials
10:10am		Peter Zoontjens - Kinetic Monte Carlo Modelling of Pt on Au (111) in Bimetallic Catalysis
10:35am		Morning tea
11:15am		Thomas Prellberg - PERM and all that - a comparison of growth algorithms
12:00pm		Ofer Biham - Reaction networks with fluctuations: from inter-stellar chemistry to intra-cellular biology
12:45pm		Lunch
2:00pm		Martin Weigel - Simulating spin models on GPU
2:45pm		Phani Nukala - Low-rank updates in statistical physics applications
3:10pm		Wenan Guo - A worm simulation of the loop model on the square lattice
3:35pm		Afternoon tea
4:00pm		Werner Krauth - The event-chain algorithm and the melting transition for two-dimensional hard spheres
4:45pm		Finish