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Objective: Research on eye lens dosimetry for radiation workers has increased after the 2012 ICRP118 update on eye lens dose limits. However, corneal dosimetry remains underexplored due to historical focus and measurement challenges. This…
Various strategies to implement efficiently QMC simulations for large chemical systems are presented. These include: i.) the introduction of an efficient algorithm to calculate the computationally expensive Slater matrices. This novel…
Monte Carlo methods are critical to many routines in quantitative finance such as derivatives pricing, hedging and risk metrics. Unfortunately, Monte Carlo methods are very computationally expensive when it comes to running simulations in…
Solving hydrologic inverse problems usually requires repetitive forward simulations. One approach to mitigate the computational cost is to build a surrogate model, i.e., an approximate mapping from model parameters (input) to observable…
By exploiting the intrinsic random nature of nanoscale devices, Memristor Monte Carlo (MMC) is a promising enabler of edge learning systems. However, due to multiple algorithmic and device-level limitations, existing demonstrations have…
Super-Droplet Method (SDM) is a probabilistic Monte-Carlo-type model of particle coagulation process, an alternative to the mean-field formulation of Smoluchowski. SDM as an algorithm has linear computational complexity with respect to the…
We introduce a Monte Carlo integration-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm for electromagnetic scattering, specifically targeting complex dielectric materials. Unlike traditional deterministic SBR methods, our approach is the…
We present a method for optimizing the location of the fermion ground-state nodes using a combination of diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) and projected gradient descent (PGD). A PGD iteration shifts the parameters of an arbitrary node-fixing…
Accurate dose calculation is vitally important for proton therapy. Pencil beam (PB) model-based dose calculation is fast but inaccurate due to the approximation when dealing with inhomogeneities. Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation is the…
We introduce a simulator of charge transport in fully-depleted, thick CCDs that include Coulomb repulsion between carriers. The calculation of this long-range interaction is highly intensive computationally, and only a few thousands of…
The ability of Gaussian processes (GPs) to predict the behavior of dynamical systems as a more sample-efficient alternative to parametric models seems promising for real-world robotics research. However, the computational complexity of GPs…
In this paper, we consider a Monte Carlo simulation method (MinMC) that approximates prices and risk measures for a range $\Gamma$ of model parameters at once. The simulation method that we study has recently gained popularity [HS20, FPP22,…
We report the development of a python-based auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) program, ipie, with preliminary timing benchmarks and new AFQMC results on the isomerization of [Cu$_2$O$_2$$]^{2+}$. We demonstrate how implementations…
Purpose: To validate the accuracy of 4D Monte Carlo (4DMC) simulations to calculate dose deliveries to a deforming anatomy in the presence of realistic respiratory motion traces. A previously developed deformable lung phantom comprising an…
Cardiovascular disease affects millions of people worldwide and its social and economic cost clearly motivates scientific research. Computer simulation can lead to a better understanding of cardiac physiology, and for pathology presents…
Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) has recently emerged as a promising method for the production of benchmark-level simulations of medium to large-sized molecules, due to its accuracy and favorable polynomial scaling…
General-purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has been introduced to many areas of scientific research such as bioinformatics, cryptography, computer vision, and deep learning. However, computing models in the High-energy…
Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…
Modeling multimetallic systems efficiently enables faster prediction of desirable chemical properties and design of new materials. This work describes an initial implementation for performing multireference wave function method localized…
For a long time, people have been focusing on how to extract more information, such as off-diagonal observables, from the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulation of the partition function, but there have been numerous difficulties, and many of…