New Directions in Statistical Physics

Predicting the Direction of a Time Series.- On the Variability of Timing in a Spatially Continuous System with Heterogeneous Connectivity.- First Passage Time Problem: A Fokker-Planck Approach.- First- and Last-Passage Algorithms in Diffusion Monte Carlo.- An Updated Review of the LLS Stock Market Model: Complex Market Ecology, Power Laws in Wealth Distribution and Market Returns.- Patterns, Trends and Predictions in Stock Market Indices and Foreign Currency Exchange Rates.- Toward an Understanding of Financial Markets Using Multi-agent Games.- Towards Understanding the Predictability of Stock Markets from the Perspective of Computational Complexity.- Patterns in Economic Phenomena.- New Algorithms and the Physics of Protein Folding.- Sequence Alignment in Bioinformatics.- Resolution of Some Paradoxes in B-Cell Binding and Activation: A Computer Study.- Proliferation and Competition in Discrete Biological Systems.- Privacy and Data Exchanges.- Statistical Physics and the Clustering Problem.- The Challenges of Clustering High Dimensional Data.- Some Statistical Physics Approaches for Trends and Predictions in Meteorology.- An Initial Look at Acceleration-Modulated Thermal Convection.