May 2013 - BBClist - maillist.psb.ugent.be

Belgian Medical Genomics Initiative (BeMGI) kickoff meeting
by Marilou Ramos Pamplona 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '13

Belgian Medical Genomics Initiative (BeMGI) kickoff meeting* "Bringing genomics to the clinic: potential impact and challenges to overcome." Next generation sequencing (NGS) will very soon reach clinical practice. We kindly invite you to a meeting where, in a short format, the medical, societal and ethical aspects will be explained. Tuesday, 18 June 2013 Centraal Auditorium Onderwijs & Navorsing 1 UZ Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Herestraat 49 3000 LEUVEN Afternoon scientific conference, 13h00-16h30: Keynote speakers Prof Gert-Jan van Ommen and Prof Peter Visscher. Evening plenary session, 17h30-20h30: Keynote speakers Prof Eric Green and Prof Bartha Knoppers. *This meeting will be eligible for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits. Attendance to the conference is free. To help us in planning this event, please let us know that you would like to attend by sending an email to BelgianMGI(a)gmail.com, preferably before 08 June. Meeting information: http://www.giga.ulg.ac.be/jcms/prod_1033658/fr/belgian-medical-genomics-ini….

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Computational Cancer Biology Positions
by Lodewyk Wessels 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

COMPREHENSIVE COMPUTATIONAL MODELING FOR COMBINATION TREATMENT DESIGN PROJECT OUTLINE All cancers arise due to alterations in their genomes. Although insight into the genetic lesions in tumors by genome sequencing does already assist in selecting some drug regimens, it rarely results in disease eradication due to the emergence of drug-resistance. More sophisticated combination therapies in which several oncogenic pathways are targeted simultaneously could alleviate this problem. However, at present we are unable to extract and interpret the necessary information from tumors to predict which drug regimen will be most adequate. In this project we will collaborate with Welcome Trust Sanger Center and employ the 1000 cancer cell line data set to tackle this problem. This data set comprises large-scale molecular characterization and cancer drug screening of all cell lines for 400 anti-cancer drugs. The molecular data currently consists of gene expression, copy number (SNP-6), and whole exome sequencing data and is being expanded. The successful candidate will work closely with scientists at the Welcome Trust Sanger Center and the Netherlands Cancer Institute and employ computational approaches to mine this rich, valuable pre-clinical resource. Potential results include 1) new molecular biomarkers to identify sensitive populations 2) repositioning of existing drugs in other tumor types and 3) potential drug combinations aimed at overcoming resistance mechanisms. Hypotheses emerging from these analyses will be validated in model systems and where possible in clinical settings. CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS – EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE We are seeking highly motivated Postdoc or PhD candidates with a degree in bioinformatics, computer science, mathematics or physics and with a strong cancer biology interest. Preferably applicants should have a documented experience in analyzing high-throughput genomic data. The candidate needs to be proficient in common bioinformatics scripting and programming languages. Fluency in spoken and written English is a strong requirement. LOCATION The project involves groups at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam (Rene Bernards, Molecular Carcinogenesis, and Lodewyk Wessels, Computational Biology) and the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute (Mathew Garnet and Ultan McDermott, Cancer Genome Project). This position will be embedded in the Computational Biology Group lead by Lodewyk Wessels. CONTACT DETAILS Please contact Lodewyk Wessels, tel. +31 20 512 7987 or e-mail: l.wessels(a)nki.nl. When applying, please ensure you include a CV, list of publications and the names and addresses of at least two persons that can be approached as references. Also see bioinformatics.nki.nl for further information. CLOSING DATE 3 February 2013

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Course Small molecules, gene products and their interaction, 1-5 July 2013, Maastricht, the Netherlands
by Celia van Gelder 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Small molecules, gene products and their interaction EBI Roadshow, Pathway-Network course and DiXa Training Course General information Date:July 1- 5, 2013 Location:Maastricht, the Netherlands Website:http://www.nbic.nl/education/course-overview/pages3/1/coursedetails/small-molecules-gene-products-and-their-interaction/ Organisers:Chris Evelo (Maastricht University), Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University), Tom Hancocks (EMBL-EBI), Vera Matser (EMBL-EBI & DiXa), Celia van Gelder (NBIC) Registration:http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ Contact:Celia van Gelder (NBIC), education(a)nbic.nl <mailto:education@nbic.nl> Course description This five day course introduces various databases and data analysis tools to get grips on the big data in the life sciences. The course consists of two parts: Part 1 (day 1-3) introduces the advanced uses of the gene and genomes databases, small molecule resources, the protein sequence databases, and interaction and pathway databases at EBI (a.o. UniPROT, ENSEMBL, CHEMBL, IntAct and Reactome). This first part is an EBIRoadshow hosted by UM & NBIC. The second part (day 4-5) focuses on real data analysis using pathway and network approaches with links to the databases covered in first part. Tools that will be used include WikiPathways, PathVisio and Cytoscape. Covered aspects include pathway creation, data preparation for analysis, pathway analysis. network analysis and network extension using target information. This second part is provided by the department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT at Maastricht University in collaboration with the DiXa FP7 project (www.dixa-fp7.eu) on systems biology approaches in toxicogenomics. The DiXa project will provide examples about (re)use and (re)analysis of large genomics datasets. *Teachers* Denise Carvalho-Silva, Louisa Bellis, Sandra Orchard, Chris Evelo, Martina Kutmon, Christoper Hardt, Stathis Kanterakis, Anwesha Dutta, Egon Willighagen. *Target audience *This course is intended for researchers in Life Sciences, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology. *Course Programme* See http://www.nbic.nl/uploads/media/Programme_Maastricht.pdf -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl websites:www.cmbi.ru.nl,www.nbic.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands

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PhD / Postdoc position on Evolutionary Cell Biology of the Mitotic Checkpoint
by berend snel 06 Jun '13

06 Jun '13

*PhD / Postdoc position on Evolutionary Cell Biology of the Mitotic Checkpoint.* We are looking for a motivated PhD student or postdoc with experience in evolutionary bioinformatics, and with affinity for understanding the role of protein networks in biological processes. The project seeks to derive functional insights into chromosome segregation from the study of protein co-evolution at the residue, motif, domain and protein level within the mitotic checkpoint signaling pathway. Novel and improved co-evolution studies are now possible thanks to an avalanche of new complete genomes. The project will encompass development of new tools and continuous refinement of a pipeline to describe and detect co-evolution between proteins. Importantly this bioinformatic pipeline will be used for generating detailed predictions on function and evolution of mitotic checkpoint proteins. As such, the candidate is expected to develop extensive expertise on chromosome segregation in general, and the mitotic checkpoint in particular, to push the limits on these predictions. *Department information* The lab of Geert Kops is part of the department of Medical Oncology and the department of Molecular Cancer Research at the UMC Utrecht. These departments are renowned for their fundamental and translational cancer research. The lab is located in the Stratenum building, that additionally houses various state-of-the-art facilities, including microscopy, proteomics, cell-screening, biochemistry and next-generation sequencing. The Kops lab consist of 6 PhD student, 3 postdocs and 4 technicians. The lab of Berend Snel is part of the Institute for Biodynamics and Biocomplexity of the Faculty of Science. This institute aims to achieve a systems-level understanding of complex dynamic processes and their evolution through close interaction between experimentation and computational biology. The Snel group currently consists of 4 PhD students and 1 postdoc working on the evolution and function of different biological systems. *How to apply* Please send your CV, along with a cover letter outlining your specific qualifications for the preferred positions including contact information for at least two references to Dr. Berend Snel, B.Snel(a)uu.nl.

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[Gtpb] IPTB13 - Introduction to Phylogenetic Tree-Building
by Pedro Fernandes 29 May '13

29 May '13

Course announcement / reminder (sorry for the LATE official opening) APPLICATIONS ARE *OPEN* FOR: IPTB13 - Introduction to Phylogenetic Tree-Building http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IPTB13/ IMPORTANT DATES for this Course Deadline for applications: *June 7th 2013* Notification of acceptance within 72 hours of application. Course date: June 13th and June 14th 2013 Course fee: Euro 160.00 The course will cover, at a basic level, building phylogenetic trees based on molecular sequence data. This will include the general context and uses of tree-building, choosing models of DNA and protein evolution, tree-building methods including distance, parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian MCMC, and confidence in results. Thanks Pedro -- -- Pedro Fernandes Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS PORTUGAL Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt _______________________________________________ Gtpb mailing list Gtpb(a)igc.gulbenkian.pt https://lists.igc.gulbenkian.pt/mailman/listinfo/gtpb

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[Gtpb] Last call BPB13
by Pedro Fernandes 28 May '13

28 May '13

Dear GTPB member The deadline for applying to BPB13 is today http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/BPB13/ We have a couple of seats to attribute to candidates, at this stage. Please apply if you are interested. Pedro -- -- Pedro Fernandes Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS PORTUGAL Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt _______________________________________________ Gtpb mailing list Gtpb(a)igc.gulbenkian.pt https://lists.igc.gulbenkian.pt/mailman/listinfo/gtpb

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Reminder: Junior PI meeting: a satellite of ISMB-ECCB 2013
by Magali Michaut 25 May '13

25 May '13

Transitioning from Post-doc to (junior) PI is a major step in the scientific career ladder bringing new challenges to the scientist. Key among these challenges is moving from a single project-based responsibility to being responsible for the projects of students, technicians, and postdocs. On top of this, the researcher is expected to be a successful grant writer, a human resources manager, an engaging speaker, etc. In this meeting we aim to bring together scientists who have recently started or wish to start their own research group. This meeting will serve as a platform for building a community of junior PIs within the broader field of Computational Biology. To participate you have to submit a short summary of your scientific research interests and future plans which will be distributed before the event to all participants to facilitate the interactions. They will also be peer-reviewed as part of the participant selection process. One of the most important goals of this meeting is to stimulate peer-to-peer interactions, which requires time and effort. We will thus require all participants to commit to the entire program duration. The total number of delegates will be capped at 50, so don't wait to submit your abstract! ** Submission deadline: April 19 ** https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?jpi2013 Date of the meeting: 20 July 2013 http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2013-program/ismbeccb2013-jpi/about-jpi Organizers: Jeroen de Ridder, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Venkata P. Satagopam, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Manuel Corpas, The Genome Analysis Centre, UK Magali Michaut, Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands Yana Bromberg, Rutgers University, USA Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA Geoff Macintyre, University of Melbourne, Australia

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NBIC PhD course on Managing and Integrating Life Science Information: registration is open!
by Celia van Gelder 25 May '13

25 May '13

*NBIC PhD Course on Managing and Integrating Life Science Information (3rd edition) *Course coordinators: Marco Roos, Katy Wolstencroft _Date:_ 17-21 June 2013 _Location:_ Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands _Website: _http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/nbic-phd-school-course-portfolio/managing-and-integrating-information-in-the-life-sciences/ _Registration:_ http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ _Contact info: _Celia van Gelder (education(a)nbic.nl <mailto:education@nbic.nl>) _ Target audience_ This course is for bioinformaticians who would like to learn about leading-edge data and knowledge integration solutions. You will learn (1) powerful and flexible approaches to data and information management for your bioinformatics application (Semantic web and Linked Data), (2) how to work with data across remote locations, for instance by applying Web Services and workflows, (3) how to publish your own data to get the most credit and make it available and reusable for the rest of the community. _Description_ The amount of Life Science data available in the public domain is a vast and growing resource for bioinformatics research. There are over 20 million papers in PubMed and over 1600 biological databases. In many cases finding and applying the information from these resources is far from trivial. This course introduces modern techniques for the management of life science data and knowledge for bioinformatics applications. After following this course students should be able to start creating their first applications based on these technologies or make more informed design decisions for their current application. In this course you will learn: 1.how the 'Linked Data' principle works and how it can be applied for 'meaningful' data integration. 2.how to expose your local data with rich metadata for use in other systems. 3.how Web Services and workflows can be used to analyse distributed data. 4.how to make publishable artefacts from your data for which you can get scientific credit. _ Lecturers:_ Paul Groth (VU), Frank van Harmelen (VU), Marco Roos (LUMC), Egon Willighagen (UM), Katy Wolstencroft (VU, University of Manchester) ._ Programme_ Day 1: Introductions to Data integration ·An introduction to the latest techniques in data and knowledge management ·A semantic web primer ·Hands on: A practical introduction to the semantic web - RDF and querying RDF Day 2: Data to understandable data (generating and sharing data for reuse) ·An introduction to minimum information models, identifiers and data standards ·Hands on: A practical introduction data standards with RightField and Bioportal ·RDF and dataset guidelines Day 3: Data to understandable data, part 2 (publishing and sharing) ·An introduction to Nanopublications - a new way of publishing your data and results ·Hands On: Creating and using Nanopublications · Day 4: Integrating and using data (part 1) ·An introduction to workflows and distributed ·Hands on: A practical introduction to using the Taverna workbench ·An introduction to Research Objects - describing the how and why of your experiments Day 5: Integrating and using data (part 2) ·An Introduction to provenance - recording the how and why of your experiments ·The OpenPhacts project: using the Semantic Web for large-scale research projects ·Hands on: Exploring OpenPhacts data -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: C.vanGelder(a)cmbi.ru.nl <mailto:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl> websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl <http://www.cmbi.ru.nl>, www.nbic.nl <http://www.nbic.nl> Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: C.vanGelder(a)cmbi.ru.nl websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl, www.nbic.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands

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TPNC 2013: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC - URV 23 May '13

23 May '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************* 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2013 Cáceres, Spain December 3-5, 2013 Organized by: Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) University of Extremadura Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/ ********************************************************************* AIMS: TPNC is a conference series intending to cover the wide spectrum of computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature. TPNC 2013 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It aims at attracting contributions to nature-inspired models of computation, synthesizing nature by means of computation, nature-inspired materials, and information processing in nature. VENUE: TPNC 2013 will take place in Cáceres, in Western Spain, 300 kms. to the southwest of Madrid and 100 kms. to the Portuguese border. The old city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical, experimental, or applied interest include, but are not limited to: * Nature-inspired models of computation: - amorphous computing - cellular automata - chaos and dynamical systems based computing - evolutionary computing - membrane computing - neural computing - optical computing - swarm intelligence * Synthesizing nature by means of computation: - artificial chemistry - artificial immune systems - artificial life * Nature-inspired materials: - computing with DNA - nanocomputing - physarum computing - quantum computing and quantum information - reaction-diffusion computing * Information processing in nature: - developmental systems - fractal geometry - gene assembly in unicellular organisms - rough/fuzzy computing in nature - synthetic biology - systems biology * Applications of natural computing to: algorithms, bioinformatics, control, cryptography, design, economics, graphics, hardware, learning, logistics, optimization, pattern recognition, programming, robotics, telecommunications etc. A flexible "theory to/from practice" approach would be the perfect focus for the expected contributions. STRUCTURE: TPNC 2013 will consist of: ‐ invited talks ‐ invited tutorials ‐ peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Risto Miikkulainen (Austin), Evolving Neural Networks (tutorial) Yew-Soon Ong (Singapore), Advances in Memetic Computation Xin Yao (Birmingham), Evolutionary Algorithm Portfolios for Numerical Optimisation PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Selim G. Akl (Kingston, CA) Thomas Bäck (Leiden, NL) Peter J. Bentley (London, UK) Hans-Georg Beyer (Dornbirn, AT) Mauro Birattari (Brussels, BE) Jinde Cao (Nanjing, CN) Vladimir Cherkassky (Minneapolis, US) Sung-Bae Cho (Seoul, KR) John A. Clark (York, UK) Carlos A. Coello Coello (Mexico DF, MX) David W. Corne (Edinburgh, UK) Peter Dayan (London, UK) Bernard De Baets (Ghent, BE) Andries P. Engelbrecht (Pretoria, ZA) Enrique Herrera-Viedma (Granada, ES) Yaochu Jin (Guildford, UK) Nikola Kasabov (Auckland, NZ) Vladik Kreinovich (El Paso, US) Kwong-Sak Leung (Hong Kong, CN) Xiaohui Liu (London, UK) Manuel Lozano (Granada, ES) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Julian F. Miller (York, UK) Frank Neumann (Adelaide, AU) Leandro Nunes de Castro (São Paulo, BR) Nikhil R. Pal (Kolkata, IN) Günther Palm (Ulm, DE) José Carlos Príncipe (Gainesville, US) Helge Ritter (Bielefeld, DE) Conor Ryan (Limerick, IE) Hava Siegelmann (Amherst, US) Moshe Sipper (Beer-Sheva, IL) Thomas Stützle (Brussels, BE) Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Singapore, SG) Johan Suykens (Leuven, BE) Kay Chen Tan (Singapore, SG) Dacheng Tao (Sydney, AU) Jon Timmis (York, UK) Marco Tomassini (Lausanne, CH) Michael D. Vose (Knoxville, US) Michael N. Vrahatis (Patras, GR) Harald Weinfurter (Munich, DE) Jun Zhang (Guangzhou, CN) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Víctor Berrocal-Plaza José M. Chaves-González Juan A. Gómez-Pulido David L. González-Álvarez José M. Granado-Criado Alejandro Hidalgo-Paniagua José M. Lanza-Gutiérrez Álvaro Rubio-Largo Sergio Santander-Jiménez Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (chair) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to the standards of the Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2013 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the journal Soft Computing (Springer, 2011 impact factor: 1.880) will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from April 17 to December 3, 2013. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/tpnc2013/Registration DEADLINES: Paper submission: July 16, 2013 (23:59h, CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: August 27, 2013 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: September 3, 2013 Early registration: September 10, 2013 Late registration: November 19, 2013 Starting of the conference: December 3, 2013 End of the conference: December 5, 2013 Submission to the post-conference special issue: March 5, 2014 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: TPNC 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universidad de Extremadura Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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SSTiC 2013: next registration deadline 26 May
by GRLMC 20 May '13

20 May '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2013 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2013 Tarragona, Spain July 22-26, 2013 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ ********************************************************************* +++ next registration deadline: May 26 +++ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2013 will be an open forum for the convergence of top class well recognized computer scientists and people at the beginning of their research career (typically PhD students) as well as consolidated researchers. SSTiC 2013 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science by means of 63 six-hour courses dealing with hot topics at the frontiers of the field. By actively participating, lecturers and attendees will share the idea of scientific excellence as the main motto of their research work. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, in the description of some of them reference may be made to specific knowledge background. SSTiC 2013 is appropriate also for people more advanced in their career who want to keep themselves updated on developments in the field. Finally, senior researchers will find it fruitful to listen and discuss with people who are main references of the diverse branches of computing nowadays. REGIME: 7 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona Arquitecte Rovira, 2 43001 Tarragona http://www.palaucongrestgna.com COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (Santa Barbara) [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Shun-ichi Amari (Riken) [introductory] Information Geometry and Its Applications James Anderson (Chapel Hill) [intermediate] Scheduling and Synchronization in Real-Time Multicore Systems Pierre Baldi (Irvine) [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Yoshua Bengio (Montréal) [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning of Representations Stephen Brewster (Glasgow) [advanced] Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction Bruno Buchberger (Linz) [introductory] Groebner Bases: An Algorithmic Method for Multivariate Polynomial Systems. Foundations and Applications Rajkumar Buyya (Melbourne) [intermediate] Cloud Computing Jan Camenisch (IBM Zurich) [intermediate] Cryptography for Privacy Jeffrey S. Chase (Duke) [intermediate] Trust Logic as an Enabler for Secure Federated Systems Larry S. Davis (College Park) [intermediate] Video Analysis of Human Activities Paul De Bra (Eindhoven) [intermediate] Adaptive Systems Marco Dorigo (Brussels) [introductory] An Introduction to Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics Paul Dourish (Irvine) [introductory] Ubiquitous Computing in a Social Context Max J. Egenhofer (Maine) [introductory/intermediate] Qualitative Spatial Relations: Formalizations and Inferences Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech) [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation David Garlan (Carnegie Mellon) [advanced] Software Architecture: Past, Present and Future Mario Gerla (Los Angeles) [intermediate] Vehicle Cloud Computing Georgios B. Giannakis (Minnesota) [advanced] Sparsity and Low Rank for Robust Data Analytics and Networking Ralph Grishman (New York) [intermediate] Information Extraction from Natural Language Francisco Herrera (Granada) [intermediate] Imbalanced Classification: Current Approaches and Open Problems Paul Hudak (Yale) [introductory] Euterpea: From Signals to Symphonies Using Haskell Niraj K. Jha (Princeton) [intermediate] FinFET Circuit Design George Karypis (Minnesota) [introductory] Introduction to Parallel Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Programming Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern) [intermediate/advanced] Sparsity-based Advances in Image Processing Arie E. Kaufman (Stony Brook) [advanced] Advances in Visualization Carl Kesselman (Southern California) [intermediate] Biomedical Informatics and Big Data Hugo Krawczyk (IBM Research) [intermediate] An Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Authenticated Key Exchange Protocols Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montréal) [intermediate] Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Simulation: Theory and Practice Laks Lakshmanan (British Columbia) [intermediate/advanced] Information and Influence Spread in Social Networks Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech) [introductory] DNS-based Monitoring of Malware Activities Maurizio Lenzerini (Roma La Sapienza) [intermediate] Ontology-based Data Integration Ming C. Lin (Chapel Hill) [introductory/intermediate] Physically-based Modeling and Simulation Jane W.S. Liu (Academia Sinica) [intermediate] Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response Satoru Miyano (Tokyo) [intermediate] How to Hack Cancer Systems with Computational Methods Aloysius K. Mok (Austin) [intermediate] From Real-time Systems to Cyber-physical Systems Hermann Ney (Aachen) [intermediate/advanced] Probabilistic Modelling for Natural Language Processing - with Applications to Speech Recognition, Handwriting Recognition and Machine Translation Cathleen A. Norris (North Texas) & Elliot Soloway (Ann Arbor) [introductory] Primary & Secondary Educational Computing in the Age of Mobilism Jeff Offutt (George Mason) [intermediate] Cutting Edge Research in Engineering of Web Applications David Padua (Urbana) [intermediate] Parallel Programming with Abstractions Bijan Parsia (Manchester) [introductory] The Semantic Web: Conceptual and Technical Foundations Massoud Pedram (Southern California) [intermediate] Energy Efficient Architectures and Information Processing Systems Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei) [intermediate/advanced] Beyond 4G Prabhakar Raghavan (Google) [introductory/intermediate] Web Search and Advertising Sudhakar M. Reddy (Iowa) [introductory] Design for Test and Test of Digital VLSI Circuits Phillip Rogaway (Davis) [introductory/intermediate] Provably Secure Symmetric Encryption Gustavo Rossi (La Plata) [intermediate] Topics in Model Driven Web Engineering Kaushik Roy (Purdue) [introductory/intermediate] Low-energy Computing Robert Sargent (Syracuse) [introductory] Validating Models Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt) [intermediate] Patterns and Frameworks for Concurrent and Networked Software Bart Selman (Cornell) [intermediate] Fast Large-scale Probabilistic and Logical Inference Methods Mubarak Shah (Central Florida) [intermediate/advanced] Visual Crowd Surveillance Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv) [introductory] Revealing Structure in Disease Regulation and Networks Satinder Singh (Ann Arbor) [introductory/advanced] Reinforcement Learning: On Machines Learning to Act from Experience Dawn Xiaodong Song (Berkeley) [introductory] Selected Topics in Computer Security Mike Thelwall (Wolverhampton) [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for the Social Web Julita Vassileva (Saskatchewan) [introductory/intermediate] Engaging Users in Social Computing Systems Philip Wadler (Edinburgh) [introductory] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life Yao Wang (Polytechnic New York) [introductory/advanced] Video Compression: Fundamentals and Recent Development Gio Wiederhold (Stanford) [introductory] Software Economics: How Do the Results of the Intellectual Efforts Enter the Global Market Place Limsoon Wong (National Singapore) [introductory/intermediate] The Use of Context in Gene Expression and Proteomic Profile Analysis Michael Wooldridge (Oxford) [introductory] Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems Ronald R. Yager (Iona) [introductory/intermediate] Fuzzy Sets and Soft Computing Philip S. Yu (Illinois Chicago) [advanced] Mining Big Data REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/Registration.php Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. FEES: They are the same (a flat rate) for all people by the corresponding deadline. They give the right to attend all courses. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. IMPORTANT DATES: Announcement of the programme: January 26, 2013 Six registration deadlines: February 26, March 26, April 26, May 26, June 26, July 26, 2013 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: Lilica Voicu: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2013 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34-977-559543 Fax: +34-977-558386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Ajuntament de Tarragona Diputació de Tarragona Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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