[Socbin] CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science: computational and mathematical biology

[Roeland Merks]

CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science: computational and
mathematical biology

CWI, the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer
sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB)
cordially invite you to the 2009 edition of the annual CWI Lectures in
Mathematics and Computer Science. To celebrate the start of CWI's new
research group "Life Sciences", this year's theme will be Computational
and Mathematical Biology. The lectures feature Turing Award winner
Richard Karp from the University of California at Berkely, and tumor
modeling specialist Luigi Preziosi from the Politecnico di Torino.

For registration and more information about the lectures and Life
Sciences research at CWI, please visit:
http://www.cwi.nl/CWILectures2009. For more information please contact
Gunnar Klau (gunnar.klau at cwi.nl; 020-5924012) or Roeland Merks
(roeland.merks at cwi.nl; 020-5924117).

Location: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, 1098 XG
Amsterdam. Note: old address (same location): Kruislaan 403, 1098SJ

The Science Park has a frequent bus connection from railway stations
Amsterdam Amstel and Amsterdam Muiderpoort: line 40 or 240. It can also
be reached on foot (15-20 mins) from Amsterdam Muiderpoort.

Program:

09.30                      Welcome with coffee

10.00 - 10.05          Introduction Jan Karel Lenstra (general director
of CWI)

10.05 - 11.00          Richard Karp (UC Berkeley, USA): Combinatorial
Methods in Computational Molecular Biology

11.00 - 11.30          Coffee break

11.30 - 12.15          Gunnar Klau (CWI, Amsterdam) : What does city
heating have to do with lymph cancer?

12.15 - 14.00          Lunch

14.00 - 15.00          Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy):
Modelling Cell Motion, Aggregation and Scattering

15.00 - 15.30          Coffee break

15.30 - 16.15          Roeland Merks (CWI Amsterdam): Culturing
embryonic tissues in the computer

16.15 - 17.30          Closing drinks