Call For Participation
BIOCOMP'08
The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
& Computational Biology
Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA
This is an invitation to attend the 2008 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP'08. The conference
is composed of a number of sessions/tracks, keynote lectures, invited
lectures, and tutorials. See below for conference schedule/program,
registration information, hotel information, list of sponsors,
and some highlights.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/PROGRAM:
The complete BIOCOMP'08 schedule/program is available at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/program
(look for BIOCOMP'08)
or
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/program/program.pdf
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
To attend the conference, use the following online registration
link:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/registration
HOTEL RESERVATION:
BIOCOMP'08 will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is
a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms. It is minutes from the air****t with 24-hour shuttle
service to and from the air****t. This hotel has many recreational
attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
a number of restaurants, ... The hotel is within walking distance
from most other attractions (recreational destinations, Golf
courses, ...).
You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte
Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that
you mention the Group Code "XWRLD8" (XWRLD8 is the keyword that the
hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the
Congress).
You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is
very close to being fully booked. There are also many other hotels
nearby.
SPONSORS (partial list) :
ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
o Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
o International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
o Horvath Lab., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
o Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, USA
o Functional Genomics Laboratory, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA
o BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia
Institute
of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
o Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University
of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
o Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory, HST of Harvard University and
MIT, USA
o Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
o Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program
George Mason University, Virginia, USA
o Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
o Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab),
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
o The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
o PSU - Prince Sultan University
o Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
o NEMO/European Union at Institute of Discrete Mathematics and
Geometry, TU Vienna
COR****ATE Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
o Google, Inc.
o Salford Systems
o Synplicity
o NIIT Technologies
OTHER Co-Sponsors (a partial list):
o High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
o International Technology Institute (ITI)
o GridToday
o HPCwire
o Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
KEYNOTE LECTURES (for WORLDCOMP'08/BIOCOMP'08 - this is a partial
list):
o The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
Prof. David A. Patterson
Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
& AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
o Searching in the "Real World"
Prof. Ophir Frieder
The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
o Achieving your Dreams
Anousheh Ansari
CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
and Space Ambassador
o Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in Electronic
System Designs
Chris Phillips
Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
o The Burgeoning Field of Network Science
Dr. Frederick I. Moxley
Department of Defense Fellow & Visiting Professor,
Director of Research and Deputy Director of the Network Science
Center; Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department;
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA
o High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence:
Link to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
o The Emerging Field of Translational Bioinformatics - A National
Perspective
Prof. Brian D. Athey
Professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,
Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine; Associate
Director,
U-M Center for Computational Medicine and Biology (CCMB);
Director, Biomedical Informatics Program (BIP), Michigan
Institute
for Clinical and Health Research; Principal Investigator, NIH
National
Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics; The University of
Michigan Medical School, USA
o Unfoldomics" of Human Diseases
Prof. Vladimir N. Uversky
Senior Research Professor, Indiana University School of
Medicine,
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA and Russian Academy of Sciences,
Russia
PLANNED WORLDCOMP/BIOCOMP TUTORIALS (this is a partial list):
Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of BIOCOMP:
(most tutorials are 3 1/2 hours long):
o Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel &
Distributed
Computing Systems
Prof. H. J. Siegel
Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Prof. of ECE & Prof. of CS;
Director, CSU Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC),
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
o Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Source Trace Systems,
Inc., USA
o Sensor Networks - Technologies, Protocols and Algorithms
Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
o Fuzzy Logic Theory and Applications in Data Mining
Ashu M. G. Solo
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
o A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies
Mikhail Golovnya
Senior Scientist, Salford Systems, USA
o Exploration of Quantum Cryptography in Network Security
Mehrdad S. Sharbaf
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA
o Introduction to Asynchronous Circuits and NULL Convention Logic
(NCL)
Scott C. Smith, Waleed K. Al-Assadi, and Jia Di
University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA;
Missouri University of Science & Technology, Missouri, USA
-> gratefully acknowledge the sup****t from the National Science
Foundation under (NSF) CCLI grants DUE-0536343, DUE-0717572,
& DUE-0717767.
o Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and possibly in
C++)
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
o Parallel-Coordinate-Plots at Age 30: Why and How GeoDa Software
Works
as a Powerful and Intuitive Method for Geovisualizing
Demographic Data
Prof. J. Kevin Byrne
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
&
St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA
o Teaching Graph Algorithms Using Java Online Package IAPPGA
Prof. Mingshen Wu
University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, USA
o Introduction to Digital Forensics Research
Prof. Robert F. Erbacher
Utah State University, Utah, USA
o Ontological Engineering: Analyzing, Designing and Implementing a
Real-World Semantic Web Ontology
Dr. Dan Dunne, Ontological Consultant, USA
o Processing Geo-Semantic Knowledge and Visuals
David Dodds
Director, Open-Meta Computing Inc, Canada
o Parallel Input/Output Techniques in High-Performance Computing
Systems
Prof. Jesus Carretero
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
CONFERENCE WEB SITES:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/biocomp08
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