October 2006 (Click for my other photos)

Mark James Fielding

My personal email is: mjfielding@gmail.com
In 1999 I was awarded my PhD in the Stochastic Processes Research Group,
with my thesis entitled, "Optimisation by Simulated Annealing"

Position: Research Fellow (2006/7)
Room: Now at MASCOS
Email: m.fielding@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Research Group: MASCOS
Department: Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Publications

"Simulated Annealing with an Optimal Fixed Temperature" 
Fielding M. J., SIAM J. Opt., 11(2), 289-307, 2000.

"Simulated Annealing: Searching for an Optimal Temperature Schedule"
Cohn, H. and Fielding, M. J., SIAM. J. Opt., 9(3), 779-802, 1999.

"Implied Volatility and Option Prices with the generalized Student-t distribution",
Fielding M.J., Klebaner F., and Landsman Z.,
Advances and Applications in Statistics, 6(1), 111-120, 2006.

My other work

The R tutoR Package,  Fielding, M. J., 2006.

"Improved Simulated Annealing for Normal Mixture Decomposition",
Fielding M.J., submitted to Statistics and Computing, 2003 (request to resubmit 2006).

"Simple Annealing over Continuous Variables",
Fielding M.J., submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2004.

"Simulated Annealing: Searching for an Optimal Multiple Runs Schedule",
Cohn H. and Fielding M.J., submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization, 2004.