DAAD Summer School 2007

DAAD Summer School 2007
Methods from Mathematics and Computer Science for Pattern Recognition in Biology

Preliminary Program

Monday, October 1

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. J. Buhmann, ETH Zürich, Machine Learning Methods for Proteomics

14:00-17:00 Dr. Thomas Brox, University of Bonn, Germany, Texture Segmentation with Level Sets

Tuesday, October 2

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. D. Cremers, University of Bonn, Germany, Statistical Methods in Pattern Recognition

14:00-15:30 Prof. Dr. H.-J. Thiesen, University of Rostock, Germany, The potential of Toponome technology in cancer treatment (working title)

15:30-17:00 Prof. Dr. M. O. Glocker, University of Rostock, Germany, Selected Topics in Proteomics (working title)

Wednesday, October 3

9:00-12:00 Dr. Gunnar Klau, Free University Berlin, Germany, Integer linear programming in computational biology

14:00-17:00 Prof. Dr. A. Dress, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; PICB Shanghai, Split Decomposition: An Algebraic Tool for Recognizing the Branching Pattern of Evolutionary Speciation Events

Thursday, October 4

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. M. Deza, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Distances in Pattern Recognition

14:00-17:00 Prof. Dr. H. W. Leong, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Modelling and characterization of multi-charge mass spectra

17:00-18:00 Ticket Reimbursement

18:00-20:00 Buffet Dinner, Hope Hotel

20:00-21:00 Prof. Dr. Ingo Rechenberg, Technical University of Berlin, After Dinner Event: Micro Air Vehicle Demonstration

Friday, October 5

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. M. Clausen, University of Bonn, Germany, Algebraic methods for pattern recognition

14:00-17:00 Dr. M. Müller, University of Bonn, Germany, Combinatorial methods for pattern recognition

Monday, October 8

9:30-12:30 Prof. Dr. P. Stadler, University of Leipzig, Germany; Fraunhofer-IZI, Leipzig, Germany, Computational RNomics

14:00-17:00 Prof. Dr. Christian Reidys, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, Network structures in graphs

Tuesday, October 9

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. A. Kerber, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Mathematical models for combinatorial chemistry and molecular structure determination

Greeting Message by Prof. Dr. Matthias Winiger, Rector of the University of Bonn, Germany

14:00-17:00 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Fleischer, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, to be announced

Wednesday, October 10

9:00-12:00 Dr. Christine Steinhoff; Utz Pape, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany; Free University Berlin, Germany; PICB Shanghai, Analysis of Sequence and Gene Expression Data

12:00-12:15 Students' Presentations: Tao Peng, Xi Wang, Shicai Fan

Language/Culture Afternoon

17:00-18:00 Ticket Reimbursement

Volkhard Stürzbecher Performance

Thursday, October 11

9:00-12:00 Volkhard Stürzbecher Lecture

14:00-17:00 Prof. Dr. Ingo Rechenberg, Technical University of Berlin, Bionik, Evolution, and Pattern Recognition

17:00-17:15 Students' Presentations: Qi Yu, Jing Zhang, Manhong Dai

Friday, October 12

9:00-12:00 Prof. Dr. Ming Chen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Prediction and Alignment of Metabolic Pathways

14:00-14:30 Students' Presentations: Yoshio Sano, Xinpeng Jiang, George Mertzios, Philip Zuniga, Angelyn Lao, Qingqing Zhang

14:30-17:30 Dr. A. Mosig, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; PICB Shanghai, Discovering cis-regulatory modules