RECOMB Satellite Conference on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology

Guest Speaker: Pavel Pevzner and Vineet Bafna, UC San Diego et al. Date: August 27th, 2012   to August 29th, 2012 Time: All day Location: Radisson Royal Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia Host: CASB [event website] [registration]

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: Speakers at this international conference co-sponsored by Calit2 include UCSD computer science professors Pavel Pevzner and Vineet Bafna (pictured) as well as Mathematics professor Glenn Tesler. Registration now open. The First RECOMB Satellite Conference on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology (RECOMB-AB) brings together leading researchers in the mathematical, computational, and life sciences to discuss current challenges in computational biology, with an emphasis on open algorithmic problems. The program will consist of invited speakers, contributed speakers, posters, and discussion panels. Selected speakers will be invited to participate in an article on Open Problems in Algorithmic Biology, to be published in the Journal of Computational Biology in Fall 2012. This multi-author article will be a compilation of the problems posed in the abstracts and invited talks at RECOMB-AB. SPEAKER BIO: Invited speakers at RECOMB-AB include UC San Diego\'s Pavel Pevzner, Vineet Bafna and Glenn Tesler, as well as: Max Alekseyev (University of South Carolina); Mikhail Gelfand (Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University); Richard Karp (UC Berkeley); Steve O\'Brien (St. Petersburg University); Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, Universite Lyon); Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University); Tandy Warnow (UT Austin); Sorin Istrail (Brown); Bernard Moret (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne); Cenk Sahinalp (Simon Fraser University); and Mike Waterman (University of Southern California). MORE INFORMATION: To register, go to http://bioinf.spbau.ru/ab2012/registration and click on the Registration Form. *Registration is Required