Brown University Center for Computational Molecular Biology

Brown University CCMB Symposium, May 3-7, 2010

Co-organized and co-funded with the Office of the President
Co-organized with the Department of Computer Science

Kickoff of John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture Series
Organized by Leon Cooper (Department of Physics),
Stu Geman (Division of Applied Mathematics),
Sorin Istrail (Department of Computer Science),
Roberto Serrano (Economics Department)

May 3-4: John von Neumann Days

Marina von Neumann Whitman, Ph.D.
Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, University of Michigan

Freeman Dyson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University

John Conway, Ph.D.
John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University

Ken Arrow, M.A., Ph.D., Nobel Laureate
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research, Emeritus Professor, Stanford University

Richard Karp, Ph.D.
University Professor, University of California, Berkeley

David Mumford, Ph.D.
University Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

Leon Cooper, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate
Thomas J. Watson Professor of Science and Director, Institute for Brain and Neural Systems, Brown University

George Dyson, Ph.D.
Historian of Science, University of Washington, Seattle

May 5-7: The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms

Eric H. Davidson, Ph.D.
Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology, California Institute of Technology

Andrew G. Clark, Ph.D.
Jacob Gould Schurmn Professor of Population Genetics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University

(tentative) J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.
Founder, Chairman and President, J. Craig Venter Institute

Ellen V. Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology

Richard Lewontin, Ph.D.
Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University

David Botstein, Ph.D.
Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics and Director, Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University

Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Ph.D.
Team Leader, Computational Biology Group, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

Sean Eddy, Ph.D.
Group Leader, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Martha Bulyk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology (and Health Sciences and Technology), Harvard Medical School

Jonathan W. Yewdell, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of the Cellular Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

David Shaw, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist and Founder, D. E. Shaw Research

Marcus Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor of Biology, Stanford University



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