Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Synthetic biology: from programming bacteria to programming stem cells [view abstract].
Ron Weiss, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Monday, February 11, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Visualization and Matching for Networks of People and Data [view abstract].
Tony Jebara, Computer Science, Columbia University

Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Translational Research - From the Bench to the Bedside (and Back) [view abstract].
Guna Rajagopal, Bioinformatics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Monday, February 18, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

How Language Learning Explains Language Design [view abstract].
Charles Yang, Linguistics/Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

The beginning of the ends: a curvature-mediated mechanism for localization of lipids to bacterial poles [view abstract].
Kerwyn (KC) Huang, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Monday, February 25, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Multicore Meets Petascale: The Catalyst for a Software Revolution [view abstract].
Kathy Yelick, EECS, UC Berkeley and National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, LBNL

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Bioinformatics of protein domains: new computational approaches for the detection of protein domains and their interactions [view abstract].
Maricel Kann, Biological Sciences, University of Maryland

Monday, March 3, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Communicating 3D Shape using Lines [view abstract].
Doug DeCarlo, Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Bayesian Variable Selection and Data Integration for Biological Regulatory Networks [view abstract].
Shane Jensen, Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Qualitative/Quantitative Analysis of Biomolecular Network Dynamics [view abstract].
Eduardo Sontag, Math/BioMaPS, Rutgers University

Monday, March 24, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Sensor Sensibility [view abstract].
Robert Calderbank, PACM, Princeton University

Wednesday, March 26, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Locating and analyzing genetic switches in the genome [view abstract].
Tae Hoon Kim, Genetics, Yale University

Monday, March 31, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Machine Learning Opportunities in Analyzing Brain Imaging Data [view abstract].
Francisco Pereira, Psychology, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Dynamics of chronic myeloid leukemia [view abstract].
Franziska Michor, Computational Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Monday, April 7, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Why Computing Climate is Hard: It's the Science, Stupid [view abstract].
Geoff Vallis, GFDL, Princeton University

Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Small Auditorium (Room 105)
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Internal representation of environment in regulatory networks
Saeed Tavazoie, Mol. Biology/Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University

Monday, April 14, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

DNA Hash Pooling and its Applications
Dennis Shasha, Computer Science, New York University

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Getting to personalized vascular medicine: development of patient specific boundary conditions for treatment planning
Brooke Steele, Biomedical Engineering, UNC/NCSU

Monday, April 21, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Network Sampling and Subsampling
Joe Blitzstein, Statistics, Harvard University

Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Computational annotation of SNPs and rare variants [view abstract].
Rachel Karchin, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Monday, April 28, 2008, 12:30 PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Getting Ready for Exascale Computational Science [view abstract].
Rick Stevens, U. Chicago/Argonne National Lab

Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 12:30 PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Population structure prediction using support vector machines [view abstract].
Usman Roshan, Computer Science, NJIT

Monday, September 15, 2008, 12:30PM
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Information Extraction from Informal Texts [view abstract].
Lyle Ungar, CIS, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, September 18, 2008, 12:30PM
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

From genomic data to statistical theory [view abstract].
John Storey, Mollecular Biology , Princeton University

Monday, September 22, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Thermodynamics of natural images [view abstract].
Greg Stephens, Physics, Princeton University

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Structural genomics of membrane proteins [view abstract].
Marco Punta, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University

Monday, September 29, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

The Tradeoffs of Large Scale Learning [view abstract].
Leon Bottou, NEC

Thursday, October 2, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

The evolution of microRNAs and their binding sites [view abstract].
Kevin Chen, Genetics, Rutgers University

Monday, October 6, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Combining Words & Pictures [view abstract].
Tamara Berg, Computer Science, SUNY Stonybrook

Thursday, October 9, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Predicting functionally important residues in proteins using evolutionary conservation and 3D structures [view abstract].
Tony Capra, Computer Science, Princeton University

Monday, October 13, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Coding and computation by neural ensembles in the primate retina [view abstract].
Liam Paninski, Statistics, Columbia University

Thursday, October 16, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

COALESCE: An integrative framework to uncover metazoan transcriptional networks [view abstract].
Hillary Coller, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Towards digital assays [view abstract].
Thierry Emonet, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University

Thursday, October 23, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

The genetic code of heart gene regulatory elements [view abstract].
Ivan Ovcharenko, NIH

Monday, November 3, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Sparse spatial sample kernels - An efficient way of measuring remote sequence similarity [view abstract].
Vladimir Pavlovic, Computer Science, Rutgers University

Thursday, November 6, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Elucidating Regulatory Mechanisms Downstream of a Signaling Pathway Using Informative Experiments [view abstract].
Ewa Szczurek, Computational Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

Monday, November 10, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

5-D Plasma Turbulence [view abstract].
Bill Dorland, Physics, University of Maryland

Thursday, November 13, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Global analysis of transcriptional cis-regulatory elements [view abstract].
Marc S. Halfon, Biochemistry, SUNY Buffalo

Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Learning Predictive Structures from Data using Supervised Dimensionality Reduction and Sparse Graphical Models [view abstract].
Irina Rish, IBM

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Understanding influenza infection using molecular simulation [view abstract].
Peter Kasson, Chemistry, Stanford University

Monday, November 24, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

What Is a Statistical Model and When Do I Need One? [view abstract].
Bill Press, Computer Science, University of Texas

Monday, December 1, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Supernova Explosions on the Computer [view abstract].
Adam Burrows, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Determining class effects in genomic aberration data [view abstract].
Gregory Grant, Center for Bioinformatics, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, December 8, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Interdisciplinary Computational Seminar Room 302
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Billions of neurons, only hundreds of measurements -- can we possibly make sense of the brain? [view abstract].
Carlos Brody, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Thursday, December 11, 2008, 12:30 P.M.
Computation And Data Analysis In Biology And Information Sciences Room 402
Host: Elena Zaslavsky

Genomic data integration for regulatory and functional network inference [view abstract].
Curtis Huttenhower, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University