Agenda
Thursday, June 1
Dinner for invited speakers and organizers at Oliveto Restaurant,
in Oakland, CA (6 PM to 9 PM)
Friday, June 2
8:30-8:50 Registration (in front of 306 SODA Hall)
8:50-9:00
Introductions by Satish Rao and Tandy Warnow
9:00-9:25
Richard Karp, University of California at Berkeley.
Title:
Models, Algorithms and Lower Bounds for a Binary
Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
9:25-9:50
Siavash Mirarab, University of California at San Diego
9:50-10:15
Luay Nakhleh, Rice University.
Title:
The Multispecies Network Coalescent and Inference of Reticulate Evolutionary Histories
10:15-10:45 Break and poster set-up time
10:45-11:10
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa.
Title:
The similarity distribution of paralogous gene pairs created by recurrent alternation of polyploidization and fractionation
11:10-11:35
Vineet Bafna, University of California at San Diego.
Title:
Identifying the favored variant in a selective sweep.
11:35-12:00
Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Title: Computational Behavioral Ecology.
12:00-1:20 Catered lunch (for registered participants
only) and poster session in Cory Hall courtyard
and lounge
1:20-1:45
Vaibhav Rajan,
International Institute of Information Technology and Yen4Ken Software.
Title: Dependence Modeling with Copulas
1:45-2:10
Daniel Doerr,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Title:
Principled Synteny using Common intervals and Hierarchical Organization (PSyCHO)
2:10-2:35
Philipp Bucher, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Title:
Evolutionary mechanisms that created and shaped
ultraconserved non-coding sequences elements
2:35-3:00 Yu Lin, Australia National University.
Title:
From the de Bruijn graph to the A-Bruijn graph
3:00-3:30 Champagne Reception in Cory Courtyard
3:30-3:45
Edward Angel,
University of New Mexico.
Title:
Bernard Moret: 1980-2006 at UNM
3:45-4:00
Tandy Warnow, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Title:
Bernard Moret: 2003-2006 and the
CIPRES Project
4:00-4:15
Willy Zwaenepoel, Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne.
Title:
Bernard Moret: 2006-2011,
early years at EPFL
4:15-4:30
James Larus,
Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne.
Title:
Bernard Moret: 2011-2016, later years
at EPFL
4:30-5:00
Pavel Pevzner, University of California at San Diego.
Title:
From the Theory of Computation to Bioinformatics
5:00-5:15 Closing remarks Tandy Warnow and Satish Rao
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