Princeton PICASso: Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences

These graduate student-oriented seminars provide a forum to present and learn about computationally-oriented research occurring in many different disciplines. Interaction is encouraged with an emphasis on sharing ideas and obtaining feedback regarding issues arising at any stage of the computational pipeline, from applications through models and methods to scalable parallel and distributed computing, storage and visualization. To make these talks accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience of researchers, no prior knowledge of the specific discipline area will be assumed by the speakers.

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Fall 2006

	September 18	Status & Challenges in Quantum Mechanics Based Modeling of Materials Behavior Emily A. Carter, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
	September 25	Optimization and Data Mining Approaches to Seizure Prediction in Epilepsy Research W. Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
	October 2	*No Seminar --- Yom Kippur*
	October 9	Applications of Modeling and Simulations in Clinical Drug Development
	October 16	Improving Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis by Computational Modeling and Image Analysis David Axelrod, Genetics Department, Rutgers University Slides
	October 23	Tuning One's Sense of Self: How T Cells' Signaling Network Discriminate Dynamically Between Self and Non-Self in the Immune System Gregorie Altan-Bonnet, Computer Biology & Immunology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
	October 30	*No Seminar --- Fall Break*
	November 6	Functional Genomics of Inflammation in Humans Steve Calvano, Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
	November 13	Design of High Resolution and Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations Phil Colella, University of California-Lawrence Berkeley Lab
	November 20	Integration and Functional Analysis of Microarray Data Sets Curtis Huttenhower, Computer Science, Princeton University
	November 27	Astronomical Medicine & the Future of High-Dimensional Data Visualization and Analysis Software Alyssa A. Goodman, Director of the Center for Innovative Computing, Astrophysics, Harvard University
	December 4	Simple Dynamics from Complex Data: Model Reduction for Control of Fluids Clancy Rowley, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
	December 11	Multicellular Heritage, Unicellular Attitude: Computational Studies of the Leukocyte Lifestyle *Thomas B. Kepler,* Chief, Division of Computational Biology, Duke University

MONDAYS, Computer Science Building, Room 302 (unless otherwise noted)

Seminars begin at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided ~12:20 p.m.

These seminars are partially supported by the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE)

Spring 2007

	February 5	Testable New Theory About Origins of Cosmic Structure: Computational Challenges Erik VanMarcke, Department of Civil & Envionmental Engineering, Princeton University
	February 12	Online Prediction of Multiple Tasks and the Netflix Prize Ofer Dekel , Hebrew University<\td>
	February 19	From Neural Oscillators through Stochastic Dynamics to Optimal Decisions, or Does Math Matter to Gray Matter? Philip Holmes, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University <\td>
	February 26	Modeling the Soft Geometry of Biological Membranes: From the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Red Blood Cell Shapes Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Physics, Clark University
	March 5	Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts Alan Robock, Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University
	March 12	Bayesian Perception and Representation of Visual Motion Eero Simoncelli, Center for Neural Science, New York University
	March 19	*No Seminar --- Spring Break*
	March 26	Interactions, Correlations and Noncausal Modeling *Aleks Jakulin*, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
	April 2	Power Issues in High-performance Computing Arch Davis, Davis Systems Engineering
	April 9	A Subgrid-Scale Turbulence Model for Simulating Compressible Astrophysical Flows *Paul Woodward*, Astronomy, University of Minnesota
	April 16	Content-Based Search of Non-Text Data: What Google Does Not Do Kai Li, Computer Science, Princeton University Canceled
	April 23	Modeling Fatigue and Wear of Strongly Correlated Electron Materials Nick Mosey, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
	April 30	Integrators for Systems with Multiple Time-Scales Eric Vanden-Eijnden, Courant Institute, New York University

This seminar series consists of four types of talks:

PICASso "Successes" Seminar

Leading researchers are invited to present special sessions about key "Successes of Computational Science" in their field; i.e., areas of success in the science that could not have been (or easily been) achieved without scalable computation.

PRIME Research Seminar

Research seminars in conjunction with PRIME (Program for Research on Immune Modeling and Experimentation)

PICSciE Colloquium

Leading researchers are invited to present accessible overviews of their work, or tutorials on specific methods.

PICASso Research Seminar

Graduate students, post-docs and young faculty present overviews of their research projects and/or tutorials on computational methods they are using.

Interested in presenting a talk?

PICASSO MAILING LIST:
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