school-workshop announcement

[organizers]

                             School-Workshop on

                            COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

                              June 10-19, 1998

                             CISM, Udine, Italy

                                sponsored by

                      Italian National Research Council

                                   UNESCO

                             University of Udine

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                             General description

In the past few years, Computational Molecular Biology has emerged as a
prominent new active area of research, lying on the boundary of computer
science, mathematics, operations research, statistics and, of course,
molecular biology. Among the many problems studied in Computational
Molecular Biology we find

   * Genomic data search problems ( -> Stringology and Statistics )
   * DNA rearrangement problems ( -> Combinatorial Analysis )
   * Sequence alignment problems ( -> Combinatorial Optimization )
   * Construction of phylogenies ( -> Graph Theory )

The aim of this school is at providing a review of the most important
computational problems motivated by different applications in molecular
biology. In particular, results will be presented concerning the complexity
of the problems, provably good and/or efficient solutions, modeling and
statistical analysis. The school will last six days. The last two days will
be devoted to a workshop where contributed papers will be presented.

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                                   Program

   * Basic concepts of molecular biology: R. Ravi - Carnegie Mellon
     University - Pittsburgh;
   * Computational challenges in gene-hunting: Pavel Pevzner - University of
     Southern California - Los Angeles;
   * Physical Mapping: Richard Karp - University of Washington - Seattle;
   * Sequence assembly: Eugene Myers - University of Arizona - Tucson;
   * Indexing Data Structures for Large Genomic DataBases: Paolo Ferragina -
     University of Pisa;
   * Algorithmic aspects of sequence comparison: Daniel Gusfield -
     University of California - Davis;
   * Pattern Matching Algorithms for Sequence Regularities and Statistics:
     Alberto Apostolico - University of Padua and Purdue University - West
     Lafayette;
   * Multiple sequence alignments: John Kececioglu - University of Georgia -
     Athens;
   * Phylogenetic reconstruction: Martin Farach - Rutgers University -
     Piscataway ;
   * Integrating phylogenetic reconstruction and multiple sequence
     alignments: Martin Vingron - Heidelberg;
   * Protein Folding and Structure Prediction Algorithms : Sorin Istrail -
     Sandia National Laboratories;
   * Shortest Paths, Hidden Markov Models and Weighted Automata: Raffaele
     Giancarlo - University of Palermo;

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                               Call for papers

The last two days of the school-workshop will be devoted to contributed
lectures. Prospective lecturers are encouraged to submit by email an
extended abstract (up to four pages long), in postscript format, to any of
the organizers. Software presentations are also encouraged. The deadline for
submissions is February 28, 1998.

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                                 Information

Registration

The registration fee is of 500,000 Italian lire, before March 31, 1998. A
late fee of 650,000 Italian lire applies after March 31, 1998. A limited
amount of scholarships will be available for participants in need of
financial support. Priority will be given to participants from eastern
european countries or developing countries. Applicants should send a CV to
the organizing committee by March 31, 1998.

   * Click here for an ASCII version of the registration form.
   * Click here for an HTML version of the registration form.
   * Click here for info on financial support.

Travel information

Udine is located in Friuli Venezia Giulia, North-East of Italy, 70
kilometers from Trieste and 110 kilometers from Venice. Here is a list of
hotels and a map of the city.

Traveling by air: The nearest airport is Trieste Airport, located 40
kilometers from Udine. There are daily connections to/from Rome and Milan,
and from Munich, Germany. A bus shuttle service to Udine is available in
connection to these flights. In alternative to Udine Airport, there is
Venice Airport, located 110 kilometers from Udine. From Venice-Mestre
railway station there are several trains to Udine.

Traveling by train: Udine can be reached from anywhere in Italy by train.
The following link provides a time table of daily trains in Italy. Or, click
on this link for a time table of trains between European countries .

Contact address: Segreteria CISM, Piazza Garibaldi 18, 33100 Udine. Tel.
+39-432-294989. Fax +39-432-501523. Email: cism at hydrus.cc.uniud.it



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                            Organizing committee

The coordinators of the School-Workshop are:

   * R. Ravi - Carnegie Mellon Universiy- Pittsburgh
   * P. Serafini - University of Udine
   * G. Lancia - University of Padova

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