MSRI: Spring 2004
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Lectures from Other Organizations: 2002 - 2003
The National Academies
April 26 - 27, 2002, Washington, D.C.
Board on Mathematical Sciences
The Mathematical Sciences' Role in Homeland Security
- Peter Bickel: Welcome and Overview of Sessions
Chair, Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications
Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Session One: Data Mining, Unsupervised Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Jim Schatz: Introductions by Session Chair
National Security Agency
- Jerry Friedman, Stanford University: Data Mining in Role of Homeland Security
- Diane Lambert, Bell Laboratories: Statistical Detection from Communication Streams
- Rakesh Agrawal, IBM-Almaden: Data Mining: Potentials and Challenges
Review and Discussion
- Don McClure, Brown University: Discussant #1
- Werner Steutzle, University of Washington: Discussant #2
- Plenary Discussion
Session Two: Detection and Epidemiology of BioTerrorist Attacks
- Claire Broome: Introductions by Session Chair
Senior Advisor to the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Ken Kleinman, Harvard Medical School: Ambulatory Anthrax Surveillance
- Stephen Eubank, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Mathematics of Epidemiological Simulations for Response Planning
- Sally Blower, UCLA: Predicting the Unpredictable in an Age of Uncertainty
Review and Discussion
- Simon Levin, Princeton University: Discussant #1
- Art Rheingold, UC Berkeley: Discussant #2
- Plenary Discussion
Session Three: Image Analysis and Voice Recognition
- Roberta Lenczowski: Introductions by Session Chair
Technical Directory (Bethesda), National Imagery and Mapping Agency
- Jitendra Malik, UC Berkeley: Computational Vision
- Ronald Coifman, Yale University: Math Challenges for Imaging
- Larry Rabiner, AT & T: Challenges in Speech Recognition
Review and Discussion
- David McLaughlin, New York University: Discussant #1
- David Donoho, Stanford University: Discussant #2
Session Four: Communications and Computer Security
- Howard Schmidt: Introductions by Session Chair
Vice Chairman, Critical Infrastructure Board, Office of Homeland Security
- Doroty Denning, Georgetown Univerity: A Security Challenge: Return on Security Investment
- David Wagner, UC Berkeley: A Few Open Problems in Computer Security
Review and Discussion
- Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota: Discussant #1
- Michael Freedman, Microsoft Research: Discussant #2
- Plenary Discussion
Session Five: Data Integration/Fusion
- Alexander Levis: Introductions by Session Chair
Air Force Chief Scientist
- Tod Levitt, IET, Inc.: Reasoning about Rare Events
- Kathryn Laskey, George Mason University: Knowledge Representation and Inference for Multisource Fusion
- Valen Johnson, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Estimating Reliability of Complex Systems
Review and Discussion
- Art Dempster, Harvard University: Discussant #2
- Alberto Grunbaum, UC Berkeley: Discussant #2
- Plenary and General Discussions
Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB)
La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Mathematics and Molecular Biology VII:
Modeling Across the Scales - Atoms to Organisms
January 5 - 10, 2002
- De Witt Sumners: Introduction
- Nancy Sung: Introduction
- Dorothy Buck: Mathematics Tutorial, I
- Sandrine Dudoit: Mathematics Tutorial, II
- Steve Levene: Biology Tutorial, I
- Steve Levene: Biology Tutorial, II
- Susan Taylor: Structure, Function and Localization of PKA: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- Panel Discussion: Using Your Postdoctoral Fellowship to launch Your Career
Moderator: Tamar Schlick
- Women in Science, I
- Women in Science, II - The Legacy of Gertrude Elion
Session I: Modeling Molecules
- Michael Levitt: Protein Folding: A paradigm for Computational Solutions to Biological Problems
- Mark Gerstein: Computational Proteomics
- Seth Darst: Structural Studies of Prokaryotic Transcription
- Tamar Schlick: Polymerase Beta Opening Motion Explored by Dynamic Simulations
Session II: Modeling Organisms
Chair: David Mumford, Co-chair: De Witt Sumners
- Bonnie Berger: Mathematical Challenges in Protein Motif Recognition and Discovery
- Nancy Kopell: Rhythms in the Nervous System: Themes and Variations
- Simon Levin: The Evolution fo Robustness
- David Mumford: The Brain as a Computer: A Flawed Metaphor
Session III: Bioinformatics
- Terry Gaasterland: Evaluating Metabolic Pathways Through Gene Expression Data
- Chip Lawrence: Computational Identification and Characterization of Regulatory Modules
- David Siegmund: Statistical Analysis of Pairwise Local Sequence Alignments
- Gene Meyers: Reconstructing Genomes: Experience from Our Human and Mouse Project
Session IV: Single Molecules
- Julio Fernandez: Single Molecule Studies of the Mechanical Stabilit of Proteins
- Klaus Schulten: Modeling the Mechanical Functions of Proteins and DNA
- Steven Smith: Reversible and Irreversible Unfolding of Single RNA Molecules by Force
- Sunney Xie: Single-Molecule Enzymatic and Conformational Dynamics
Session V: Cellular Gene Expression
- Roland Stoughton: Framework for Microarray Analysis Methods Development
- Wynn Walker: DNA Hybridization Modeling and its Application to the Design of Microarrays
- Wing Wong: Some Recent Progress in Microarray Analysis: Examples and Lessons
- Jonathan Alger: Collaborating with Industry: Making Contacts and Protecting Your Interests
Session VI: Mesoscale Modeling
- Muhammad Zaman: The Entropic Benefit of a Cross-Link in Protein Association
- Christopher Patil: Genomic Analysis of the Unfolded Protein Response: Prediction and Discovery of Novel Regulatory Motifs
- David Swigon: Micromechanics of DNA Looping
- Andrew Ewald: The Molecular Control of Cell Movements in the Early Vertebrate Embryo
- Jody White: Spontaneous Calcium Release in Ventricular Myocytes: Mechanisms and Implications
Lectures from Other Organizations: 2000 - 2001
Lectures from Other Organizations: 1998 - 1999
Lectures from Other Organizations: 1996 - 1997