The mathematical understanding of tau-leaping algorithm

Series
Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
Time
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Tiejun Li – Peking University
Organizer
Haomin Zhou
The tau-leaping algorithm is proposed by D.T. Gillespie in 2001 for accelerating the simulation for chemical reaction systems. It is faster than the traditional stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA), which is an exact simulation algorithm. In this lecture, I will overview some recent mathematical results on tau-leaping done by our group, which include the rigorous analysis, construction of the new algorithm, and the systematic analysis of the error.