Syndicate: Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic

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                Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic
                      Methods for Bioinformatics
                  A NATO Advanced Studies Institute
               San Miniato, Italy    October 1-11, 2001

                       www.dsi.unifi.it/ai4bio

Application deadline: July 25, 2001

Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics (e.g., machine learning and data
mining, pattern recognition, cluster analysis, search, knowledge
representation) can provide key solutions for the new challenges posed by the
progressive transformation of biology into a data-massive science.  This
school is targeted to scientists who want to learn about the most recent
advancements in the application of intelligent systems to computational
biology.


Topics:
  Computational analysis of biological data. Artificial intelligence, machine
  learning, and heuristic methods, including neural and belief networks.
  Prediction of protein structure (secondary structure, contact maps). The
  working draft of the human genome. Genome annotation. Computational tools
  for gene regulation.  Analysis of gene expression data and their
  applications. Computer assisted drug discovery. Knowledge discovery in
  biological domains.


Lecturers:
  Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine)
  Soeren Brunak (CBSA, The Technical University of Denmark)
  Rita Casadio (CIRB, University of Bologna)
  Antonello Covacci (Chiron Italia)
  Paolo Frasconi (DSI, University of Florence)
  Terry Gaasterland (Rockefeller University)
  Dan Geiger (Technion, Israel)
  Mikhail Gelfand (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow)
  David Haussler (University of California, Santa Cruz)
  Nikolay A. Kolchanov (Inst. of Cytology and Genetics, Novosibirsk)
  Richard H. Lathrop (University of California, Irvine)
  Heiko Mueller (Pharmacia & Upjohn, Milano)
  Steve Muggleton (Imperial College, London)
  Burkhard Rost (Columbia University)
  Roberto Serra (Montecatini SpA, Ravenna)
  Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University)


Co-directors:
  Paolo Frasconi (University of Florence)
  Email: paolo@dsi.unifi.it
  www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo

  Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University)
  Email: rshamir@tau.ac.il
  www.math.tau.ac.il/~rshamir

Limited grants have been made available by NATO to cover the accommodation
and/or travel expenses of selected attendees.  A limited number of travel
awards will be made available by the National Science Foundation for U.S.
citizens or permanent residents.

For APPLICATION, CONTRIBUTING PAPERS, GRANTS, FEES, and further
information please visit
                    http://www.dsi.unifi.it/ai4bio






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