2004 Applied Bayesian Statistics School on GENOMICS in Trento (Italy)

[Fabrizio Ruggeri <fabrizio@mi.imati.cnr.it>]

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              Applied Bayesian Statistics School 
	      
	      GENOMICS: METHODS AND COMPUTATIONS

           Centro Congressi Panorama, Trento, Italy

                       15 - 19 June 2004

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Web page: www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs04.html

CNR-IMATI (Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche at
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) and the University of Pavia (DEPMQ) 
are planning to organise every year a School on state-of-the-art Bayesian 
applications, inviting leading experts in the field.

The topic chosen for the 2004 School is "Genomics: methods and computations" 
and the lecturer will be Mike West, the Arts & Sciences Professor of Statistics
and Decision Science at the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences,
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. His web page is: www.stat.duke.edu/~mw/

Professor West is Co-Director of the Computational and Applied Genomics
Program (CAGP) at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke
University (see www.cagp.duke.edu/index.shtml) 

The Computational and Applied Genomics Program is a multidisciplinary
research program concerned with the creation, modeling, analysis and
integration of multiple forms of data in basic and clinical biomedical
studies. The core foci of research in CAGP projects lie in basic genome
science, complex modeling and statistical methods, and computational
biology.

CAGP projects include both basic and applied research, with the
applications arising from several related, multidisciplinary projects in
specific biomedical areas. The applied contexts currently include
projects involving molecular characterization studies, gene pathway
studies and biological information integration in breast cancer and
other cancers, cardiovascular studies, and neurological studies.
Emerging projects include applications in environmental health areas.

The School will have at most 40 participants.

Discounted fees will be offered to researchers from Universities and
Research Centers. Special fees will be available to Ph.D students.

Reasonably priced accommodation is available at the Congress center.

Details on registration, room reservation, fees, and payment, will be
provided with the first announcement, due in early Autumn, 2003.

Trento can be easily accessed by train and motorway. The airports of
Verona, Venezia and Bolzano are quite close to Trento. Trento is in
the northern part of Italy, very close to the Alps (Dolomiti).

People interested in attending the School can contact Fabrizio Ruggeri 
(fabrizio@mi.imati.cnr.it).


Best regards

Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri,
ABS04 Directors

http://economia.unipv.it/gconsonni
http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/~fabrizio
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