CWI Lectures 2009: Starting Life Sciences at CWI
Invitation
What does city heating have to do with cancer research? How do cells know how to make a blood vessel - can they communicate and organize themselves? In January 2009, a new research group in the life sciences has started at CWI. We celebrate this with this year's edition of the CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science. Turing Award winner Richard Karp will give a presentation on his research and his vision of this field. Luigi Preziosi, specialist in tumour modelling, will talk about novel interactions between mathematics, computer science, and cancer research. CWI researchers Gunnar Klau and Roeland Merks will present examples from life sciences research at CWI.
You are all welcome to attend the meeting.
Please mark 4 June in your diary!
Speakers:
Richard M. Karp is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley. He received the ACM Turing Award, the U.S.A. National Medal of Science, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Kyoto Prize, and many other prizes, as well as four honorary degrees. He worked at the IBM Watson Research Center for nine years. Karp has made important discoveries in computational complexity, operations research, and, more recently, in computational biology.
Gunnar W. Klau is computer scientist and researcher at CWI, heading the Algorithmic Computational Biology group. He has worked at several universities in Germany and Austria, and at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (U.S.A.). Klau's group develops algorithms and mathematical models for the analysis of biological and biomedical data, amongst others, for cancer research.
Roeland M.H. Merks leads the Biomodelling and Biosystems Analysis group at the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB) and CWI. He has worked at universities in the Netherlands, Belgium, the U.S.A. and Japan. Merks' group develops new biomodelling concepts and approaches, focusing on multiscale, cell-based modelling of biological form and function.
Luigi Preziosi is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Polictecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include mathematical modeling of tumour growth, cell and tissue mechanics and vascular network formation.
Programme
09.30 hours Welcome with coffee
10.00 - 10.05 Introduction Jan Karel Lenstra
10.05 - 11.00 Richard Karp
Combinatorial Methods in Computational Molecular Biology
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.15 Gunnar Klau
What does city heating have to do with lymph cancer?
12.15 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Luigi Preziosi
Modelling Cell Motion, Aggregation and Scattering
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.15 Roeland Merks
Culturing embryonic tissues in the computer
16.15 - 17.30 Closing drinks
Life Sciences at CWI
CWI's Life Sciences group is an interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, computer scientists, and theoretical biologists, comprising in total 30 researchers. Within this group algorithms, methods, and models are developed, and simulations for a wide range of biological topics are performed, with a strong focus on systems biology. CWI collaborates with a large network of researchers in biology and biomedicine - both individually and within national and international consortia, including the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB).
Location
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123
1098 XG Amsterdam
Contact
Reception desk, phone +31 20 592 9333.
Registration
Register for the CWI Lectures 2009: Starting Life Sciences at CWI
Co-organizer: Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology
