Monday, February 5, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Testable New Theory About Origins of Cosmic Structure: Computational Challenges [view abstract].
Erik Van Marcke, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Signaling and the Single Cell [view abstract].
Stuart Sealfon, Translational Systems Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Monday, February 12, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Online Prediction of Multiple Tasks and the Netflix Prize [view abstract].
Ofer Dekel, Hebrew University

Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Computational Functional Genomics or "What to do with all this Data?" [view abstract].
Olga Troyanskaya, Computer Science & Lewis Sigler Institute, Princeton University

Monday, February 19, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

From Neural Oscillators through Stochastic Dynamics to Optimal Decisions, or Does Math Matter to Gray Matter? [view abstract].
Philip Holmes, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton Univ

Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

MicroRNA Target and Gene Prediction: A Computational Approach with Experimental Support [view abstract].
Artemis G. Hatzigeorgiou, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, February 26, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Modeling the Soft Geometry of Biological Membranes: From the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Red Blood Cell Shapes [view abstract].
Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Physics, Clark University

Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Prediction of Transcription Terminators in Prokaryotes [view abstract].
Carl Kingsford, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Bilology, University of Maryland

Monday, March 5, 2007, 12:30 PM.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts [view abstract].
Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University

Wednesday, March 7, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

A Tale of Histone Tails [view abstract].
Tamar Schlick, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences, New York University

Monday, March 12, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Bayesian Perception and Representation of Visual Motion [view abstract].
Eero Simoncelli, Center for Neural Science, New York University

Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Predictions and Validation of a Model for the Oscillatory Response of P53 to DNA Damage [view abstract].
Gustavo Stolovitzky, Functional Genomics & Systems Biology, IBM

Monday, March 19, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

No Seminar, Spring Break

Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

No Seminar, Spring Break

Monday, March 26, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Interactions, Correlations and Noncausal Modeling [view abstract].
Aleks Jakulin, Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Computational Inference of Genetic Regulatory Networks in Human Cancer Cells [view abstract].
Adam Margolin, Computer Science, Columbia University

Monday, April 2, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Power Issues in High-performance Computing [view abstract].
Arch Davis, Davis Systems Engineering

Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

No Seminar, Passover

Monday, April 9, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

A Subgrid-Scale Turbulence Model for Simulating Compressible Astrophysical Flows [view abstract].
Paul Woodward, Astronomy, University of Minnesota

Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Detangling Scrambled Genes and Genomes [view abstract].
Laura Landweber, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Monday, April 16, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Content-Based Search of Non-Text Data: What Google Does Not Do [view abstract].
Kai Li, Computer Science, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Systems Biology of Bacterial Chemotaxis: A Story of Macromolecular Complexes [view abstract].
Robert G. Endres, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Monday, April 23, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Modeling Fatigue and Wear of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials [view abstract].
Nick Mosey, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Simultaneous Model Selection via Rate-Distortion Theory, with Applications to Clustering and Significance Analysis of Gene Expression Data [view abstract].
Rebecka Jornsten, Statistics, Rutgers University

Monday, April 30, 2007, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Integrators for Systems with Multiple Time-Scales [view abstract].
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, New York University

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Predicting the Course of Evolution: The Problem of Metazoan Segmentation [view abstract].
Eric Siggia, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University

Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Relating Cellular to Molecular Specificity [view abstract].
Barry Honig, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Monday, September 24, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Discovering Meaning in the Visual World [view abstract].
Fei-Fei Li, Computer Science, Princeton University

Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Combinatorial Patterns of Somantic Gene Mutations in Cancer [view abstract].
Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Institute for Advanced Study

Monday, October 1, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Applications of Large-Scale Machine Learning in Vision and Robotics [view abstract].
Yann LeCun, Computer Science Department, New York University

Wednesday, October 3, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Cross-Platform Metabolomics and Metabonomics; Integrated use of NMR, MS, Proteomics, Transcriptomics and Statistics [view abstract].
Istvan Pelczer, Chemistry Department, Princeton University

Monday, October 8, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Graphical Models for Social Networks [view abstract].
Anna Goldenberg, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, October 10, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Identification of Novel Structured RNAs Using Local Multiple Alignment and Homology Search [view abstract].
Zasha Weinberg, Yale University

Monday, October 15, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

The SiCortex SC5832, a 5.8 Teraflop Low-power Multicore Cluster [view abstract].
Lawrence Stewart, SiCortix, Inc.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

A Genome-Wide Signaling Map for Animals [view abstract].
Josh Stuart, Biomolecular Engineering, University of California - Santa Cruz

Monday, October 22, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Scale Makes Things Interesting *and* Useful [view abstract].
Craig Nevill-Manning, Google

Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Growth-Specific Programs of Gene Expression in Yeast [view abstract].
Edo Airoldi, Genomics, Princeton University

Monday, October 29, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

No Seminar--Fall Break

Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

No Seminar--Fall Break

Monday, November 5, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Revisiting Query Clarity: a Distinctiveness Measure for Information Retrieval [view abstract].
Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca

Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Two's Company, Three's Irreconcilable? Fitting Binary Gene Trees to Non-Binary Species Trees [view abstract].
Dannie Durand, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, November 12, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Finding Predictive Runs with LAPS (the Lasso with Attribute Partition Search) [view abstract].
Suhrid Balakrishnan, Rutgers University

Wednesday, November 14, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

In Silico Approaches to Transcriptional Regulation and its Evolution [view abstract].
Sridhar Hannenhalli, Genetics, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, November 19, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Visual Intelligence from Video and 3D Sensor Analytic [view abstract].
Harpreet Sawhney, Sarnoff

Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Genetic Steganography: Searching for Conserved Motifs within Coding Regions [view abstract].
Josh Forman, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Monday, November 26, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Contextual Biomedical Image Learning [view abstract].
Kevin Zhou, Siemens Corporate Research

Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Tissue Expression Profile Similarity Searches for Gene Discovery and Functional Prediction [view abstract].
Fabien Campagne, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College, Cornell University

Friday, November 30, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Colloquia Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Spectral-Element and Adjoint Methods in Computational Seismology [view abstract].
Jeroen Tromp, Professor of Geophysics, California Institute of Technology

Monday, December 3, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Life is Motion: Watching Tiny Cells Find their Way [view abstract].
Joshua Shaevitz, Physics Department and Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Identifying State Dependent Regulatory Modules [view abstract].
Yuval Kluger, Cell Biology, New York University School of Medicine

Monday, December 10, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Detecting ExtraSolar Planets: A Survey of Methods and Results [view abstract].
Robert Vanderbei, ORFE, Princeton University

Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Using Computational Models of DNA to Predict Intrinsic and Extrinsic Nucleosome Positioning Signals [view abstract].
Alexandre Morozov, Physics, BioMaPS, Rutgers University