Scientific Computing Research Environments for the Mathematical Sciences (SCREMS)

University Of Iowa, Iowa City IA

Investigators

Abstract

The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa will purchase computer equipment (a Microway Beowulf cluster for intensive computation as well as 3 workstations for individual faculty at a total cost of $88411) which will be dedicated to the support of research in computational, applied, and theoretical statistics. The equipment will be used for several research projects, including in particular: 1. The extension, implementation and application of posterior simulators (John Geweke) 2. Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and convergence assessment in Bayesian hierarchical models with application to spatial and temporal modeling (Mary Kathryn Cowles) 3. Analysis of unreplicated experiments (Russell Lenth) 4. On Inference in Continuous-Time Models with Applications to Finance (Osnat Stramer) 5. Analysis of surface roughness data and studying the properties of fractal dimension estimator in a class of stationary non-Gaussian random fields (Grace Chan)