Final announcement, complete with all titles and abstracts (postscript version is here)

Within the framework of BSIK/BRICKS project AFM2 is dedicated to biological applications of mathematics and computer science. Since a year the project is running at full intensity. This meeting is meant to give an overview of the various sub-projects that have been executed within BSIK/BRICKS AFM2. Therefore the main part of the day consists of lectures by researchers working on the BRICKS project. They are organised in 2 sessions, each session consisting of 4 short lectures, with time for discussion. The diversity of these lectures reflects the diversity of mathematical disciplines involved in the AFM2 project. The first session is before lunch and the second session concludes the seminar day.

As an interesting intermezzo we are glad to have a lecture by Jan H. van Schuppen on the research he is doing, in consortium with biologists, on cell biology.

The seminar day is open for everybody who has an interest in the interaction of mathematics and computer science with the life sciences.

Program
To see the abstracts, click the titles or download postscript version).

• 10.15h - coffee with stroopwafels
• 10.40h - opening
• 10.45h - Ben Sommeijer, Numerical simulation of phytoplankton dynamics
• 11.10h - Leen Stougie, The minimum test set problem [[Slides (PPT)]]
• 11.35h - Maksat Ashyraliyev, Modelling developmental regulatory networks
• 12.00h - Mark van de Wiel, Bayesian process-based modeling of gene expression data: estimating absolute mRNA concentrations [[Slides (PPT)]]
• 12.25h - lunch, FREE to those who register, see below
• 13.30h - Jan van Schuppen, Control and system theoryfor biochemical reaction networks [[Slides (PDF)]]
• 14.30h - tea break
• 14.45h - Rob van den Berg, Models of forest-fires and other excitable media
• 15.10h - Steven Kelk, Combinatorics in computational biology: strings and permutations. [[Slides (PDF)]]
• 15.35h - tea break
• 15.50h - Maciej Dobrzynski, On modelling of multiscale and noisy life systems
• 16.15h - Paul Vitanyi, Universal similarity
• 16.40h - drinks and snacks

Lunch will be offered for free to everybody who registers for this lunch by sending a message strictly before November 25th to Susanne van Dam at CWI (Susanne.van.Dam@cwi.nl).

For directions how to reach CWI, please consult the website http://www.cwi.nl/about/directions.html.

For any further information please contact Leen Stougie (stougie@cwi.nl).

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