50th Anniversary of the Metropolis Algorithm

Last week I attended a conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Metropolis Algorithm at Los Alamos. To give proper credit to all the authors, it should be the Metropolis, Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth, Teller, and Teller (MRRTT) method, but most people just call it the "Metropolis method" (or algorithm).

I enjoyed meeting people at the conference, learning more about various techniques (look for future posts), and visiting New Mexico (my first time there).

One of the sessions was a history of the Metropolis method, and Marshall Rosenbluth gave a talk. It was good to hear from one of the original authors.