Schedule — Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology Workshop

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Saturday, November 12

8:45am, James Carlson: Welcome and Introduction

9:00am, Seth Sullivant: What is Algebraic Statistics?

10:00–10:30am: coffee

10:30am, Lior Pachter: Biological Sequence Analysis

11:30am, Bernd Sturmfels: Parametric Inference

12:30pm–2:00pm: lunch

2:00pm–3:00pm: Christopher Burge: Towards an RNA Splicing Code

3:00pm–4:00pm, John Rhodes: Algebraic Models in Phylogenetics

4:00pm–4:30pm: coffee

4:30pm–6:30pm: Discussions in smaller groups (led by Elizabeth Allman, David Fernandez-Baca, Michael Kleber and Steve Mount)

7:30: BANQUET

Sunday, November 13

9:30am–10:30am, Andreas Dress: The Category of X-Nets

10:30am–11:00am: coffee

11:00am–12:00pm, Sumio Watanabe: Algebraic Geometry and Singular Statistics

12:00pm–1:30pm: lunch

1:30pm–2:30pm: Eduardo Sontag: Control Systems Theory and a Qualitative/Quantitative Approach to Systems Biology

2:30pm–3:30pm, Niles Pierce: Computational Analysis and Design of Nucleic Acid Systems

3:30pm–4:00pm: coffee

4:30pm–6:00pm: Problem Session (led by Niko Beerenwinkel, Joshua Weitz, and Ruriko Yoshida)

Monday, November 14

9:30am–10:30am: Glenn Tesler: The Fragile Breakage versus Random Breakage Models of Chromosome Evolution

11:00am–12:00pm, Komei Fukuda: Polyhedral Computation in Algebraic Statistics

12:00pm–1:30pm: lunch

1:30pm–2:20pm: Reinhard Laubenbacher: Computational Algebra Methods in Systems Biology

2:30pm–3:00pm: Vanja Dukic: Resolution-invariant Binary Partition Priors: Application to Breast Cancer Survival Studies

3:10pm–3:40pm: Christine Heitsch: Deciphering the Information Encoded in RNA Viral Genomes

3:45pm–4:15pm: coffee

4:20pm–4:50pm: Franziska Michor: The Mathematics of Cancer Therapy

5:00pm–5:50pm: Mathias Drton: Algebraic Methods for Gaussian Random Variables

6:00pm: Workshop ends