Sixth IMACS International Symposium on
Iterative Methods in Scientific Computing

March 27-30, 2003 (talks begin March 28)
University of Colorado at Denver
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IMACS Minisymposium on Opportunities for Iterative Methods in Computational Biology

Organizers

1. Stephen Billups, University of Colorado at Denver
2. Harvey Greenberg, University of Colorado at Denver

Summary: Computational biology has revolutionized life sciences research to such an extent that the 21st century has been dubbed the biology century. This rapidly developing field not only promises tremendous medical, agricultural, and environmental contributions, but also offers fascinating collaborative research opportunities for developing algorithms to address problems in molecular biology. This minisymposium will describe several problems of current interest in computational biology and discuss algorithms for solving them.

Speakers

1. Stephen Billups, University of Colorado, Denver, Department of Mathematics, Stephen.Billups@cudenver.edu, Clustering Gene Expression Array Data Using Independent Component Analysis.
2. Alex Pothen, Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science, pothen@cs.odu.edu, Computational Problems in Proteomics: Statistics, Optimization, and Combinatorics.
3. Betty Eskow, University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Computer Science, eskow@cs.colorado.edu, An Optimization Approach to Protein Structure Prediction.
4. Elebeoba E. (Chi-Chi) May, Computational Biology & Evolutionary Computing Department, Sandia National Laboratories, eemay@sandia.gov, Use of Iterative Methods in Biological Coding Theory: Applications.