[Forum SIS] CFA: Erice School on Optimization, Machine Learning and Bioinformatics

[Marcella NIGLIO]

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CFA: Erice School on Optimization, Machine Learning and  
Bioinformatics, September 2010
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON MATHEMATICS "GUIDO STAMPACCHIA"
50th Workshop
Optimization, Machine Learning and Bioinformatics
School Website: http://www.graphalgorithms.it/erice2010/

Centre "Ettore Majorana" for Scientific Culture
Erice-Sicily, Italy
September 8 - 16, 2010

Directors of the Course
Pierre Baldi (USA)
Søren Brunak (Denmark)
Raffaele Cerulli (Italy)
Roberto Tagliaferri (Italy)

PURPOSE OF THE COURSE

High-throughput technologies in the life-sciences, from sequencing to  
microarrays, continue to produce exponentially increasing amounts of  
data and drive the need and inspiration for the development of new  
methods in the computational sciences to efficiently manage and mine  
these data and provide a better understanding of life from the  
molecular to the population level.  Bioinformatics, computational and  
systems biology, and the new -omics sciences, from genomics to  
metabolomics, all attempt to address these needs and better understand  
carbon-based computing, using silicon-based computing, with slightly  
different perspectives and emphases. Their success is intimately  
related to progress in mathematics and computer science, in particular  
in the areas of artificial intelligence, statistical machine learning,  
and optimization, in order to deal with very complex,  
high-dimensional, and noisy data.

The school is devoted to graduate students and researchers with  
different scientific background (including computer science, physics,  
mathematics, biology, medicine etc) and the aim of the School is to  
introduce and expose the students to some of the contemporary problems  
and state-of-the-art solutions at the intersection of the life- and  
computational sciences. For this purpose, the School is organized into  
four themes, of approximately increasing spatial scale complexity:  
Chemoinformatics, Proteomics, Genomics, and Systems Biology. Each  
theme will comprise lectures and invited talks, as well ample time for  
discussion, over a period of one and a half day.  Additional  
minicourses to cover computational methods in machine learning and  
optimization will be given during the afternoons.

Student final examinations may also constitute the test for credit  
acquisition within PhD programs.

LIST OF LECTURERS AND SPEAKERS
- Pierre Baldi (USA)
- Søren Brunak (Denmark)
- Paolo Frasconi (Italy)
- Burkard Rost (USA)
- Panos Pardalos (USA)
- Gunnar Raetsch (Germany)
- Michal Rozen Zvi (Israel)
- Jean-Philippe Vert (France)
- Elia Biganzoli (Italy)
- Piero Fariselli (Italy)
- Alfredo Ferro (Italy)
- Salvatore Gaglio (Italy)
- Irene Kouskoumvekaki (Denmark)
- Gianluca Pollastri (Ireland)

APPLICATION
The registration fee for the School is 900 Euro and includes all local  
expenses from the evening of Wednesday September 8th to mid-day on  
Thursday September 16th including all meals and on-site lodging in  
single or double-occupancy rooms. Attendance is limited to 90  
students. All applicants must complete a Registration Form  that will  
be posted on this web site from  September  15th 2009. Registration  
will be closed on April 30th 2010.

A limited number of grants will be available under well motivated and  
documented requests.

The fee includes accommodation in double room with full board (from 8  
to 16 September 2010), social dinner, a one day excursion to ancient  
temples. All the lecturers and participants will be accommodated in  
the  Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture (EMCSC) buildings  
in Erice or in near hotels.

Transportation from Palermo or Trapani Airport (or train station) to  
the Erice Centre is included too if you fill the pick-up-service form  
at least 10 days before your arrival in Palermo.

FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION

please visit the website
http://www.graphalgorithms.it/Erice2010/

or contact
Dr. Monica Gentili
e.mail: erice.bioinformatics at gmail.com


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