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GCC2013 Registration Closes June 14
by Dave Clements 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hello all, This is the final registration<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Register> reminder for the 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013>), being held in Oslo, 30 June through July 2. Registration <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Register> closes June 14*, ten days from today. Register now<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Register> and guarantee your spot in the Training Day sessions<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> you want to take.* *Registration is still a bargain with the full 3-day registration starting at ~ €165 for post-docs and students (or just €55 per day). The program <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Program> features 15 Training Day sessions<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Program#Day_0:_Training_Day.2C…> in 5 tracks on 12 different topics, 25 Talks<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts#Talk_Abstracts> on topics ranging from Reproducibility<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts#Events.2FGCC2013.2FA…> to Exploiting Galaxy<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts#Events.2FGCC2013.2FA…> , 23 Posters<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts#Poster_Abstracts> (and counting), 2 Lightning Talk sessions, and a end-of-conference event at an historic venue high above Oslo. GCC2013 is a great opportunity to share best practices and network with other researchers who are also facing the challenges of data-intensive biology. Ser frem til å se deg i Oslo! GCC2013 Organizing Committee PS: Please help get the word out<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Promotion> . * Not June 7, as had been stated earlier in several places. -- http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2013 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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SSTiC 2013: next registration deadline 26 June
by GRLMC 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '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: June 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 59 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: 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 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 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 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: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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RECOMB-CG 2013 - Second Call for Papers
by Macha Nikolski 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Eleventh Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics October 17-19, 2013, Lyon, France Website: http://rcg2013.sciencesconf.org/ Contributions to the workshop are welcomed on any theoretical and/or empirical approach to genome-wide comparison. This includes genome evolution, algorithms for genome rearrangement, comparative tools for assembly, gene identification or annotation, comparison of functional networks, genomic variation in humans and model organisms, cancer genomics, duplication patterns of genes, segments and whole genomes, and comparative epigenetics. We encourage paper submissions that offer new biological findings or otherwise highlight their relevance to biology. Refereed papers will be published as open-access manuscripts in the journal BMC Bioinformatics. -------- KEY DATES Paper submission deadline June 21, 2013 Acceptance notification July 19, 2013 Workshop October 17-19, 2013 - Lyon, France -------- CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Tal Dagan, Heinrich Heine Universität, Dusseldorf - France Denoeud, Genoscope CEA, Evry - Laurent Duret, Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Lyon - Nicolas Galtier, Institut des Sciences d'Evolution, Montpellier - Ludovic Orlando, Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark -------- THEME AND SCOPE The continuing advance of DNA sequencing technology has produced an avalanche of genome sequence and genome structural information across the evolutionary spectrum. Transforming that information into biological knowledge requires creative and innovative new computational and statistical methods for comparative genomics. The RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics aims to provide the premier forum for new computational developments applied to all aspects of comparative genomics. We solicit contributions on topics including comparison of genome structure and organization, genome function, and evolution. We particularly encourage contributions that use new computational methods to acquire new insight into biological processes. Advances in computational theory are welcome, though all submissions should include genome-scale analyses informed by comparative data. All peer-reviewed and accepted RECOMB-CG manuscripts will be published in a supplement to BMC Bioinformatics as open-access, author-subsidized, articles. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: . Gene and genome duplication . Gene family evolution . Genome structural variation . Algorithms for comparative genomics . Genome rearrangements . Ancestral genome reconstruction . Multiple genome alignment . Genome sequence comparison . Modeling genome evolution . Comparative genomics for genome annotation . Gene tree reconciliation . Species and gene tree inference . Comparative metagenomics . Comparative genomics linked to proteomics, metabolomics, and other ~omic data . Comparative genomics and gene expression and regulation . Applications of comparative genomic methods . Paleogenomics -------- CALL FOR PAPERS Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair system: Submissions must be received in electronic form by 11:59pm (Samoa time), June 21th, 2013. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recombcg2013 Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work. At the time the paper is submitted to the conference, and for the entire review period, the paper should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal. At least one author per each successful submission is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. The paper will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published in BMC Bioinformatics as open-access author-subsidized articles. Authors are encouraged to use the BMC document templates when preparing manuscripts. Templates are available in Microsoft and LaTeX formats. Otherwise, submissions should be typeset as double-spaced A4 pages with at least 1-inch margins all around in a minimum of 10 point font. Submissions should be limited to 16 pages, everything included (title, authors, addresses, abstract, references, figures, tables). Exceptions to this limit may be granted by consultation with the Program Committee Chairs. Submissions must include the corresponding author’s email address. When preparing your submission please follow the instructions for authors of BMC supplements: http://www.uff.br/recombcg/docs/Instructions-for-authors-BMC-Appendix-B.pdf. Submitted manuscripts must be rendered to PDF format prior to upload into EasyChair at the review stage. Address any questions to the program committee chairs: Macha Nikolski macha (at) labri (dot) fr and Yves Van de Peer yves (dot) vandepeer (at) psb (dot) vib (dash) ugent (dot) be -------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairs: Macha Nikolski (LaBRI & CBiB, Université Bordeaux, France) Yves Van de Peer (VIB / Ghent University, Belgium) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary) • Anne Bergeron (Canada) • Guillaume Blin (France) • Guillaume Bourque (Canada) • Marilia Braga (Brazil) • Titus Brown (USA) • Frederic Brunet (France) • Cedric Chauve (Canada) • Niklas Eriksen (Sweden) • Martin Frith (Japan) • Lukasz Huminiecki (Sweden) • Gerton Lunter (England) • Vsevolod Makeev (Russia) • Veli Mäkinen (Finland) • Aida Ouangraoua (France) • Benedict Paten (USA) • Sven Rahmann (Germany) • Eric Rivals (France) • Hugues Roest Crollius (France) • Marie-France Sagot (France) • Cathal Seoighe (Ireland) • João Setubal (Brazil) • Katherine St John (USA) • Jens Stoye (Germany) • Krister Swenson (Canada) • Eric Tannier (France) • Glenn Tesler (USA) • Raluca Uricaru (France) • Miguel Vazquez (Spain) • Chris Workman (Denmark) • Louxin Zhang (Singapore) STEERING COMMITTEE Jens Lagergren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and SciLifeLab Stockholm, Sweden) Aoife McLysaght (University of Dublin, Ireland) David Sankoff (University of Ottawa, Canada)

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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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2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) Early Registration ends Friday, 24 May
by Dave Clements 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hello all, Early registration <http://bit.ly/GCC2013Reg> for the 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) <http://bit.ly/gcc2013> ends this Friday, 24 May. Early registration saves *up to 75% off regular registration costs*, and is downright affordable, with combined registration (Training Day<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> + main meeting <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Program>) starting at ~ €95 for post-docs and students. Registering early also assures you a spot in the Training Day workshops you want to attend. Once a Training Day session becomes full, it will be closed to new registrations. GCC2013 <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013> is an opportunity to participate in two full days of presentations, discussions, poster sessions, keynote, and lightning talks, all about high-throughput biology and the tools that support it. The conference also includes a Training Day<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> with in-depth topic coverage of twelve different topics in 15 sessions across 5 tracks. An early program is available<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Program> featuring 25 oral presentations, lightning talks and poster sessions, and the just added Birds-of-a-Feather <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/BoF> gatherings. If you are a biologist or bioinformatician performing or enabling high-throughput biological research, then this conference is for you. Thanks, GCC2013 Organizing Committee<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Organizers> PS: And please help get the word out<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Promotion> ! On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dave Clements <clements(a)galaxyproject.org>wrote: > Hello all, > > We are pleased to announce that early registration<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Register> > and paper and poster abstract submission<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts> are > now open for the 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013)<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013> > . GCC2013 will be held 30 June through July 2 in Oslo Norway, at the University > of Oslo <http://uio.no/>. > > GCC2013 <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013> is an opportunity > to participate in two full days of presentations, discussions, poster > sessions, keynotes, lightning talks and breakouts, *all about > high-throughput biology and the tools that support it*. The conference > also includes a Training Day<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> for > the second year in a row, this year with more in-depth topic coverage, more > concurrent sessions, and more topics. > > If you are a biologist or bioinformatician performing or enabling > high-throughput biological research, then please consider attending. > GCC2013 is aimed at: > > - Bioinformatics tool developers and data providers > - Workflow developers and power bioinformatics users > - Sequencing and Bioinformatics core staff > - Data archival and analysis reproducibility specialists > > *Early registration<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Register> > * *saves up to 75% off regular registration costs,* and is very > affordable, with combined registration (Training Day<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/TrainingDay> + > main meeting) starting at ~ €95 for post-docs and students. Registering > early also assures you a spot in the Training Day workshops you want to > attend. Once a Training Day session becomes full, it will be closed to new > registrations. Early registration closes 24 May. > > *Abstract submission<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Abstracts> > * for oral presentations closes 12 April, and for posters on 3 May. > Please consider presenting your work. If you are working with big > biological data, then the people at this meeting want to hear about your > work. > > Thanks, and hope to see you in Oslo! > > The GCC2013 Organizing Committee<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Organizers> > > PS: And please help get the word out<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2013/Promotion> > ! > -- > http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2013 > http://galaxyproject.org/ > http://getgalaxy.org/ > http://usegalaxy.org/ > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/ > -- http://galaxyproject.org/GCC2013 http://galaxyproject.org/ http://getgalaxy.org/ http://usegalaxy.org/ http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/

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