Brown University CCMB Symposium, May 3-7, 2010
Co-organized with the Office of the President
Co-organized with the Department of Computer Science
Supported in part by the Office of the President, The C.V. Starr Lectureship, & the National Science Foundation
All events held in Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology
115 Waterman Street, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI 02912-1910
John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture Series
organized by:Leon Cooper, Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science and Director, Institute for Brain and Neural Systems (Department of Physics) |
Stuart Geman, James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics (Division of Applied Mathematics) |
Sorin Istrail, Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Computer Science and Director, Center for Computational Molecular Biology (Department of Computer Science) |
Roberto Serrano, Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics, Brown University (Department of Economics) |
Monday, May 3rd
8:30-9:15am |
Continental Breakfast |
9:15-9:30am |
Introductory remarks by: Sorin Istrail, Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and
Professor of Computer Science and
Director, Center for Computational Molecular Biology, Brown University |
9:30-10:30am |
Marina von Neumann Whitman, Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, University of Michigan
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9:30-10:00am |
"John von Neumann: a Daughter's View" |
10:00-10:30am |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
10:30-10:45am |
Break |
10:45am-12:15pm |
John Conway, John von Neumann Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University |
10:45-11:45am |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Mathematics: "von Neumann, Set Theory and Life" Watch the Lecture |
11:45am-12:15pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
12:15-2:15pm |
Lunch |
2:15-3:45pm |
Richard Karp, University Professor, University of California, Berkeley Watch the Lecture |
2:15-3:15pm |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Computer Science: "Understanding Science Through the Lens of Computation" |
3:15-3:45pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
3:45-4:00pm |
Break |
4:00-5:00pm |
George Dyson, Historian of Science, |
5:00pm |
Reception hosted by Provost David Kertzer |
Tuesday, May 4th
9:30-10:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
10:00-11:30am |
Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus of Physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
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10:00-11:00am |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Physics: "A Walk Through Johnny von Neumann's Garden" Watch the Lecture |
11:00-11:30am |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
11:30-1:30pm |
Lunch |
1:30-3:00pm |
Leon Cooper, Nobel Laureate, Thomas J. Watson Professor of Science and Director, Institute for Brain and Neural Systems, Brown University |
1:30-2:30pm |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Physics: "von Neumann and the Problem of Measurement in the Quantum Theory" Watch the Lecture |
2:30-3:00pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
3:00-3:15pm |
Break |
3:15-4:45pm |
Andrew G. Clark, Jacob Gould Schurmn Professor of Population Genetics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University |
3:15-4:15pm |
"Consequences of Explosive Human Population Growth on Complex Genetic Disorders" Watch the Lecture |
4:15-4:45pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
Wednesday, May 5th
8:30-9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00-10:30am |
Eric H. Davidson, Chandler Professor of Cell Biology, California Institute of Technology |
9:00-10:00am |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Biology: "Genomic Control System for Development: The Sea Urchin Embryo Gene Regulatory Network" Watch the Lecture |
10:00-10:30am |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
10:30-10:45am |
Break |
10:45am-12:15pm |
Ellen V. Rothenberg, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology |
10:45-11:45am |
"A Gene Regulatory System Guiding Cell Identity Choice: Stem Cells to T Cells" Watch the Lecture |
11:45am-12:15pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
12:15-2:15pm |
Lunch |
2:15-3:45pm |
Jonathan W. Yewdell, Chief, Biology Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH |
2:15-3:15pm |
"It's Not Written in Stone: Stress Induced Alteration in the Genetic Code" Watch the Lecture |
3:15-3:45pm |
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3:45-4:00pm |
Break |
4:00pm |
Brief Reception celebrating the Center for Computational Molecular Biology's new Doctoral Program in the SWIG Boardroom (CIT 241) |
Thursday, May 6th
8:30-9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00-10:30am |
Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University |
9:00-10:00am |
"The Problem of Natural Selection for Genomic Variation" Watch the Lecture |
10:00-10:30am |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
10:30-10:45am |
Break |
10:45am-12:15pm |
Martha Bulyk, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology (and Health Sciences and Technology), Harvard Medical School |
10:45-11:45am |
"Transcription factor-DNA interactions: cis regulatory codes in genomes" Watch the Lecture |
11:45am-12:15pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
12:15-2:15pm |
Lunch |
2:15-3:45pm |
David Shaw, Chief Scientist, D.E. Shaw Research, and Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
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2:15-3:15pm |
"Millisecond-Long Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins on a Special-Purpose Machine" Watch the Lecture |
3:15-3:45pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
3:45-4:00pm |
Break |
4:00-5:30pm |
Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Team Leader, Computational Biology Group, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH |
4:00-5:00pm |
"The Challenges of Spatially Resolved Computational Modeling of Cellular Signaling Processes" Watch the Lecture |
5:00-5:30pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
Friday, May 7th
8:30-9:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
9:00-10:30am |
Sam Broder, Medical Officer, Celera, and former Director of the National Cancer Institute, NIH |
9:00-10:00am |
"The Development of Antiretroviral Therapy and Its Impact on the Global HIV-1/AIDS Pandemic: Personal Reflections on a Journey to Treat an "Untreatable" Virus After 25 Years" Watch the Lecture |
10:00-10:30am |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
10:30-10:45am |
Break |
10:45am-12:15pm |
Kenneth Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Joan Kenney Professor of Economics and Professor of Operations Research Emeritus, Stanford University |
10:45-11:45am |
von Neumann Distinguished Lecture on Economics: "My Beliefs and Ours: Formation, Costs, Interactions, and Effects" Watch the Lecture |
11:45am-12:15pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
12:15-2:15pm |
Lunch |
2:15-3:45pm |
Sean Eddy, Group Leader, Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
2:15-3:15pm |
"Reading Genomes" Watch the Lecture |
3:15-3:45pm |
Sweatbox Q&A Session Watch the Q&A |
3:45-4:00pm |
Break |
4:00-5:30pm |
Panel Session: Brain Signaling: Digital, Analog or Both? |
4:00-5:00pm |
"The Challenges of Spatially Resolved Computational Modeling of Cellular Signaling Processes" |
Panelists: |