ACES Presentation
Tarik Borogovac
Boston University - Electrical & Computer Engineering
Internship performed at Los Alamos National Laboratory - Los Alamos, New Mexico
Friday - October 5, 2007
12:00 noon
Physics Research Building - Room 595

I worked on applying efficient simulation algorithms based on the DataBase Monte Carlo (DBMC) methodology, to problems of interest in Physics. Developed by our group led by Professor Vakili, DBMC is a scheme based on the idea that two or more simulations, different only in values of parameters share common information which can be exploited to increase efficiency of estimation. I will primarily discuss the application of the variance reduction method of control variates, applied within the DBMC setting, to the simulation of the 2-D Ginzburg-Landau dynamics (non-linear, time-dependent), and with a focus on computational and implementation issues encountered at Los Alamos.

If there is sufficient time, I also hope to share information about life and opportunities at Los Alamos National Labs, which may be helpful to other trainees.