Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods

Part I Tutorials, Fred J. Hickernell, The Trio Identity for Quasi-Monte Carlo Error.- Pierre L'Ecuyer, Randomized Quasi-Monte Carlo: An Introduction for Practitioners.- Frances Y. Kuo and Dirk Nuyens, Application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods to PDEs with Random Coefficients - an Overview and Tutorial.- Part II Invited talks, Jose Blanchet and Zhipeng Liu, Malliavin-based Multilevel Monte Carlo Estimators for Densities of Max-stable Processes.- Nicolas Chopin and Mathieu Gerber, Sequential quasi-Monte Carlo: Introduction for Non-Experts, Dimension Reduction, Application to Partly Observed Diffusion Processes.- Frances Y. Kuo and Dirk Nuyens, Hot New Directions for Quasi-Monte Carlo Research in Step with Applications.- Saul Toscano-Palmerin and Peter I. Frazier, Stratified Bayesian Optimization.- Part III Regular talks, Christoph Aistleitner, Dmitriy Bilyk, and Aleksandar Nikolov, Tusnady's Problem, the Transference Principle, and Non-Uniform QMC Sampling.- Ken Dahm and Alexander Keller, Learning Light Transport the Reinforced Way.- Adrian Ebert, Hernan Leovey, and Dirk Nuyens, Successive Coordinate Search and Component-by-Component Construction of Rank-1 Lattice Rules.- Wei Fang and Michael B. Giles, Adaptive Euler-Maruyama method for SDEs with non-globally Lipschitz drift.- J. Feng and M. Huber and Y. Ruan, Monte Carlo with User-Specified Relative Error.- Robert N. Gantner, Dimension Truncation in QMC for Affine-Parametric Operator Equations.- Michael B. Giles, Frances Y. Kuo, and Ian H. Sloan, Combining Sparse Grids, Multilevel MC and QMC for Elliptic PDEs with Random Coefficients.- Hiroshi Haramoto and Makoto Matsumoto, A Method to Compute an Appropriate Sample Size of a Two-Level Test for the NIST Test Suite.- Stefan Heinrich, Lower Complexity Bounds for Parametric Stochastic Ito Integration.- Lukas Herrmann and Christoph Schwab, QMC Algorithms with Product Weights for Lognormal-Parametric, Elliptic PDEs.- Masatake Hirao, QMC Designs and Determinantal Point