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 Programs · Satellite Conference · IMS-BII Workshop · Inter-Faculty Workshop · Public Lectures· Lectures to Schools · Colloquium Lecture · Seminars · Discussion Series

 Programs

 - Representation Theory of Lie Groups (Jul 2002 – Jan 2003)

    Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:
- Jian-Shu Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
- Eng-Chye Tan (National University of Singapore)
 - Post-genome Knowledge Discovery (Jan – Jun 2002)
    Co-chairs of Organizing Committee:
- Simon Tavaré (University of Southern California, USA)
- Limsoon Wong (Laboratories for Information Technology)(formerly KRDL)

 

 IMS-BII Population Genetics Workshop

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Bioinformatics Institute.

Date:

29 Nov, 2 & 3 Dec 2002

Time:

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Venue:

Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
(formerly Laboratories for Information Technology (LIT))
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613 (Map)

 URL:

http://www.bii.a-star.edu.sg/webcast/webcast1.asp

 

 ICM 2002 Satellite Conference

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability and Singapore Mathematical Society.

 - SSA - Symposium on Stochastics and Applications (15 - 17 Aug 2002)

 

 Inter-Faculty Workshop on Financial Mathematics

 

Date:

Saturday, 12 January 2002

Time:

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Venue:

Seminar Room, IMS, 3 Prince George's Park

URL:

http://www.ims.nus.edu.sg/activities/cfe/Interfac.htm

 

 Public Lectures

 

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Centre for Industrial Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society.

Date:

Monday, 21 October 2002

Venue:

LT 31 (Faculty of Science Auditorium), Blk S16, Level 3
3 Science Park Drive 2
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543

 

  3:00 - 4:00pm

Economics and Cryptography on the Internet
by Andrew M. Odlyzko, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA

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*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Genome Institute of Singapore.

Date:

Friday, 16 August 2002

Venue:

LT 31 (Faculty of Science Auditorium), Blk S16, Level 3
3 Science Park Drive 2
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543

 

  5:30 - 6:30pm

The assembly of the human and mouse genomes
by Dr. Gene Myers Informatics Research, Celera Genomics

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*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Wednesday, 3 April 2002

Venue:

LT 31 (Science Auditorium), Level 3, Blk S16, 3 Science Drive 2
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore

 

  6:00 - 7:00 pm

Back to the future: ancestral inference in molecular biology
by Simon Tavaré, University of Southern California

 

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*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Wednesday, 27 March 2002

Venue:

LT 31 (Science Auditorium), Level 3, Blk S16, 3 Science Drive 2
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore

 

  6:00 - 7:00 pm

How similar are human and chimpanzee at the genomic level?
by Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago

 

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*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Wednesday, 20 March 2002

Venue:

LT 31 (Science Auditorium), Level 3, Blk S16, 3 Science Drive 2
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore

 

  6.00 - 7.00 pm

Unraveling genes: the role of mathematics and statistics
by Warren Ewens, University of Pennsylvania

 

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*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Department of Mathematics and Singapore Mathematical Society

Date:

Friday, 15 February 2002

Venue:

LT 31, Blk S16, Level 3
Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore

 

  3.00 – 4.00pm

Highlights of an emerging field: Computational Biology
Franco Preparata

 

 Lectures to Schools

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore Mathematical Society and respective schools.

Date:

Thursday, 28 March 2002

Venue:

AVA 5, River Valley High School
698 West Coast Road, Singapore 608784

 

3:30 - 5:00 pm

The evolution of genes and organisms by Rasmus Nielsen, Cornell University, USA

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Date:

Wednesday, 27 March 2002

Venue:

LT 4, Hwa Chong Junior College
661 Bukit Timah Road, Singapre 269734

 

3:00 - 4:00 pm

What do we know about genetic variation? by Magnus Nordborg, University of Southern California, USA

 

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Date:

Wednesday, 27 March 2002

Venue:

AVA Theatrette, Clementi Town Secondary School
673 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269735

 

2:45 - 3:45 pm

On heredity and mathematics by Susan Wilson, Australian National University, Australia

 

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Date:

Tuesday, 26 March 2002

Venue:

Auditorium, GEP / The Chinese High School
10 Clementi Avenue 3, Singapore 129904

 

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Mathematics and DNA by David Balding, University of London, UK

 

 Colloquium Lecture

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Mathematics.

Date:

Thursday, 5 September 2002

Venue:

Colloquium Room A, (S14, #03-10)
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore

 

  3:00 - 4:00pm

Pure Point Diffraction in Aperiodic Structures
by Robert V. Moody, University of Alberta, Canada

 

 Seminars

 

*Jointly organized by Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS.

Date:

Thursday, 12 December 2002

Venue:

Seminar Room, Blk S16, #06-118
3 Science Park Drive 2
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117543

 

  2:30 - 3:30pm

Approximate Tail Probabilities for Scan Statistics
David Siegmund, Stanford University

  3:30 - 4:00pm

Tea Break

  4:00 - 5:00pm

On Modelling Weather Indices and Pricing Weather Derivatives
Shuangzhe Liu, Australian National University

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Date:

Monday, 11 Feb 2002

Venue:

IMS Seminar Room, 3 Prince George’s Park

 

  9.00 - 10.00 am

Protein diversity as a result of transcript isoform variation in expressed genes
Winston Hide

10:00 - 10:20 am

Tea Break

10:20 - 11:20 am

Inferring new gene and protein functions
Christian Schoenbach

11:20 - 12:20 am

Evidence of adaptive evolution provides the Achilles-heel of pathogen genomes: candidates for drug and vaccine targets
Winston Hide

 

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Date:

Friday, 1 February 2002

Venue

IMS Seminar Room, 3 Prince George’s Park

 

11.00 am – 12.00 noon

Recent Issues in Biopathway Extraction from Literature
Jong C. Park, Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology

 

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Date:

Thursday, 24 January 2002

Venue

IMS Seminar Room, 3 Prince George’s Park

 

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Prokaryote Phylogeny Based on Complete Genomes --- A Compositional Approach
Bailin Hao, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Beijing Genomics Institute, Academia Sinica

 

 Discussion Series

Discussion group on bioinformatics, lead by Prasanna Kolatkar of the Genome Institute of Singapore

Venue:

IMS Lounge, 4 Prince George’s Park

Time:

9.30 - 11.00 am


  Dates


  Topics

2 March 2002

Improved clustering of ESTs by Alan Christoffels

16 March 2002

Views on alternative splicing by Shawn Hoon

13 April 2002

Aspects of evolution by Uttam Surana, IMCB

27 April 2002

Brainstorming session on comparative functional genomics

11 May 2002

Phylogeny

25 May 2002

Linkage disequilibrium by Mark Seielstad

8 June 2002

Comparisons of Protein-Protein Interaction Assessment Methods, jointly led by Prasanna Kolatkar and Jerry Joseph

22 June 2002

Relevance vector machines by Li Yi of GIS

6 July 2002

Regulation by Lin Chin-yo of GIS

20 July 2002

Cancer genomics

3 August 2002

TEIRESIAS a pattern searching tool

17 August 2002

Sampling Techniques and Sample Size Determination by Amirul Islam (GIS)

31 August 2002

LongSage and also Array based clone selection by Ruan Yijun of GIS

14 September 2002

E-cell Project by Pawan Dhar of BII

28 September 2002

Comparison of an emerging method, non-negative matrix factorization, with principal components analysis and vector quantization, two related methods by Phil Long of the GIS

12 October 2002

Nerves and Brains by Tania Oh of GIS

26 October 2002

S. pombe genetics by Liu Jian Hua of GIS

9 November 2002

FT Mass Spec by Newman Sze of GIS

23 November 2002

Video lecture Wayward cells : the genesis of human cancer by Micheal J Bishop

 

 Programs · Satellite Conference · IMS-BII Workshop · Inter-Faculty Workshop · Public Lectures· Lectures to Schools · Colloquium Lecture · Seminars · Discussion Series