Computational Bayesian Statistics Journal Club

Discussion Leader: Yuling Yao, Columbia University

Topic: From importance sampling to bridge sampling to path sampling to adaptive path sampling, and from Rao–Blackwell to Wang-Landau to Jarzynski-Crook, all about free energy and normalization constant

Paper:

[1] Lelièvre, Stoltz, and Rousset (2010). Free energy computations: A mathematical perspective.

[2] Gelman and Meng 1998, Simulating Normalizing Constants https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.ss/1028905934

Schedule:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TB3IauL3Ns9Tx5PmLZ5oV-fAGucSlcqZcc-ztG6Ehu8/edit

Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at [email protected] for Zoom information if you would like to participate.