Importance Sampling, especially Sequential Importance Sampling, has emerged
as an important competitor for Markov chain Monte Carlo. There has been very
little rigorous work comparing these two algorithms. I will give a collection
of examples drawn from practical work whre comparisons can be rigorously made.
A host of open problems will be presented.

Lecture #10795

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