PROGRAMME


SUMMER SCHOOL ON THE MATHEMATICS OF BIOINFORMATICS
August 27-29, 2003
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27
08:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee (Room 6245)
08:45-09:00
Introduction to the school
First session: Evolution
09:00-10:30
David Bryant
"Estimating the distance between two sequences"
10:30-11:00
Coffee break (room 6245)
11:00-12:30
Anne Bergeron
"Combinatorial Methods for Genome Comparison"
Second session: DNA
and RNA sequence analysis
14:00-15:30
Mathieu Raffinot
"Algorithmics and pattern matching for biological purposes"
15:30-16:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
16:00-17:30
Nadia El-Mabrouk
"Prediction and identification of secondary structures"
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28
First session: Sequence alignment and Genome evolution
09:00-10:30
David Sankoff
"Statistics and algorithms for comparing genomes"
10:30-11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00-12:30
Jotun Hein
"Algorithms for Statistical Multiple Alignment"
Second session: Sequencing
14:00-15:30
Miklós Csürös
"Algorithmic approaches for sequence assembly"
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29
First session: Functional genomics
09:00-10:30
Guillaume Bourque
"Gene expression analysis and modeling"
10:30-11:00
Coffee break (Room 6245)
11:00-12:30
Mike Hallett
"Computational methods towards understanding gene regulation"
Second session: Sequence alignment
14:00-15:30
John Kececioglu
"Multiple sequence alignment: complexity, approximation, and exact solutions"