Paula Whitlock

Professor and Advisor of Computational Math Major
Computer and Information Science

Location: 1212 Ingersoll Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x2069
Fax: 718.951.4842
Email: Paula Whitlock's Web site

Paula A. Whitlock is a professor of Computer and Information Sciences at Brooklyn College and a member of the faculty in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. She was a research scientist for many years at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.

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Education:

Ph.D., Wayne State University - 1976 (Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences)

B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook - 1972 (Chemistry)

Areas of Expertise:

Whitlock's research interests include the development of Monte Carlo methods and their application to the study of condensed matter systems. She is also interested in the development of applications in parallel and distributed computing including the development of parallel pseudorandom number generators.

Books and Publications

Jie Li, Jianliang Zheng, Paula A. Whitlock: " Efficient deterministic and non-deterministic pseudorandom number generation ", Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 143 : 114-124(2018). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2018

Wen-Ju Cheng, Jim Cox, Paula A. Whitlock:, "Random walks on graphs and Monte Carlo methods". Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 135: 86-94 (2017) (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017

Jie Li, Jianliang Zheng, and Paula Whitlock, "MaD0: An Ultrafast Non-Linear Pseudorandom Number Generator", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol 26, Issue 2, 2016, Article #13. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

Marvin Bishop and Paula A. Whitlock, "Five Dimensional Binary Hard Hypersphere Mixtures: A Monte Carlo Study", Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 145, 154502 (2016)
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

Cheng, Wen-ju, James Cox and Paula A. Whitlock. "Random Walks on Graphs and Monte Carlo Methods." Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, published on-line, 12/2015, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378475415002748 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015

Artemchuk, Sergey and Paula A. Whitlock. "Parallelization and Optimization of 4D Binary Mixtures Monte Carlo Simulations Using OpenMPI and CUDA." Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Proceedings of the 8th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2011, Borovets, Bulgaria. K.K. Sabelfeld and I. Dimov, eds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 11-20. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

Bishop, Marvin and Paula A. Whitlock. "Phase Transitions in Four-dimensional Binary Hard Hypersphere Mixtures." Journal of Chemical Physics 138: 084502. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

Mayorov, Mikkail and Paula A. Whitlock. "Parallelization of Algorithms for Solving a Three-dimensional Sudoku Puzzle," Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, Proceedings of the 8th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2011, Borovets, Bulgaria. K.K. Sabelfeld and I. Dimov, eds. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. 145-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013

Bishop, Marvin and Paula A. Whitlock. "Monte Carlo Study of Four Dimensional Binary Hard Hypersphere Mixtures." Journal of Chemical Physics 136: 014506. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2012

Agapie, Stefan and Paula A. Whitlock. "Random Packing of Hyuperspheres and Marsaglia's Parking Lot Test." Monte Carlo Methods and Applications 16: 197-209. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Lambert, Tiffany and Paula A. Whitlock. "Generalizing Sudoku to Three Dimensions." Monte Carlo Methods and Applications 16: 251-63. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Lue, Leo, Marvin Bishop and Paula A. Whitlock. "The Fluid to Solid Phase Transition of Hard Hyperspheres in Four and Five Dimensions." Journal of Chemical Physics 132: 104509. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2010

Bishop, M., N. Clisby and P.A. Whitlock. "The Equation of State of Hard Hyperspheres in Nine Dimensions for Low to Moderate Densities." Journal of Chemical Physics 28.3: 034506. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008

Kalos, Malvin H. and Paula A. Whitlock. Monte Carlo Methods." 2nd edition. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. (Books and Publications: Book) 2008

Bishop, Marvin and Paula A. Whitlock. "Monte Carlo Simulation of Hard Hyperspheres in Six, Seven and Eight Dimensions for Low to Moderate Densities." Journal of Statistical Physics 126: 299-314. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Harrow, K., R. Eckhardt, D. Kopec, M. Kobrak and P.A. Whitlock. "SmartTutor: A Unified Approach for Enhancing Science Education." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 22: 29. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Whitlock, P.A., Marvin Bishop and John L. Tiglias. "Structure Factor for Hard Hyperspheres in Higher Dimensions." Journal of Chemical Physics 126.224505-1,7. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Whitlock, P.A. and S. Vitiello. "Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Solid He-4," LSSC 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3743. Eds. I. Lirkov, S. Margenov and J. Wasniewski. 40-52. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

Whitlock, P.A., Dino Klein and Marvin Bishop. "Small WebComputing Applied to Distributed Monte Carlo Calculations." Computational Science -- ICCS 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3993. Eds. V.N. Alexandrov, G.D. van Albada, P.M.A. Sloot and J. Dongarra. 608-15. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

Bishop, Marvin and P.A. Whitlock. "The Equation of State of Hard Hyperspheres in Four and Five Dimensions." Journal of Chemical Physics 123: 014507. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Whitlock, P.A., B. Krishnamachari and G.V. Chester. "Second Layer of Helium-4 on Graphite." Condensed Matter Theories, Volume 20. Eds. J.W. Clark, R.M. Panoff and H. Li. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers. 413-22. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

National Science Foundation grant, for "II-EN: City University of New York - Computing Research Infrastructure." Co-investigators: Michael E. Kress, Fred Moshary, Paula A. Whitlock, Robin Bargar and Tobias B. Schaefer. $452,410; Aug. 1, 2009 - July 31, 2012. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

Research Activities

International reviewer for the Austrian Science Fund on a panel to review a series of proposals, "Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications," Vienna, July 11-12. 2013

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Affect of pseudorandom number generators on the convergence of multidimensional random walks" (with Patrick Lempert and Wendy Mei), 11th International Conference on Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, July 3-7, 2017 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2017

"Efficient Deterministic and Non-Deterministic Pseudorandom Number Generation" (with Jie Li and Jianliang Zheng), 10th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, July 6-10, 2015 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2015

"Random Walks on Graphs and Monte Carlo Methods" (co-authored with Wen-Ju Cheng and James Cox). 9th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods. University of Savoie. Annecy, France, July 15-19. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

Whitlock, Paula and Sergey Artemchuk. "Using Multiple GPUs on Multiple Hosts in Simulations of Multi-Dimensional Hypersphere Systems." Accelerators in High-Performance Computing and Computational Science. High Performance Computing Center, College of Staten Island (CUNY). June 5-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

Artemchuk, Sergey and Paula A. Whitlock. "Employing Multiple GPU Devices Over a Network to Investigate Multi-dimensional Mixtures of Hard Hyperspheres using MPI and CUDA." 8th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods. Borovets, Bulgaria, Aug. 28 - Sept. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

Mayorov, Mikhail and Paula A. Whitlock. "Parallelization of Algorithms to Solve a Three-dimensional Sudoku Puzzle." 8th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods. Borovets, Bulgaria, Aug. 28 - Sept. 2. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2011

Agapie, Stefan C. and Paula A. Whitlock. "Random Packing of Hyperspheres and Marsaglia's Parking Lot Test." 7th IMACS Conference on Monte Carlo Methods. Sept. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009

Lambert, Tiffany and Paula A. Whitlock. "Generalizing Sudoku to Three Dimensions." 7th IMACS Conference on Monte Carlo Methods. Sept. 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2009

"Explorations of Hard Hyperspherical Systems at Higher Densities." 100th Statistical Mechanics Conference. Dec. 12-17. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Small WebComputing Applied to Distributed Monte Carlo Calculations." Monte Carlo Methods Workshop, International Conference on Computational Science. University of Reading, England. May 30. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2006

"Investigations of the Solid Phase of Helium-4 Using Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations" keynote lecture. Monte Carlo: Tools, Applications, Distributed Computing Session, 5th International Conference on Large-scale Scientific Computing. Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005