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.
Books and Publications
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", July 11-12th, 2013, Vienna, Austria. 2013
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Presented the talk "Random Walks on Graphs and Monte Carlo Methods" co-authored with Wen-Ju Cheng and James Cox at the
9th IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Methods held at the University of Savoie,Annecy, France, July 15-19, 2013.
(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
Other Professional Activities
Associate editor, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier Press. 2008
