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bytemal conference
by Cirillo Elisa (BIGCAT) 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

? SAVE THE DATE 9th MARCH byteMAL conference 13.30-18.00 Maastricht University (Randwyck campus) ?[cid:aa7ffa7f-e2e4-40e8-a5c8-d78de06b7f79] http://projects.bigcat.unimaas.nl/bytemal/? byteMAL (Bioinformatics for Young inTernational researchers) is a conference for young researchers in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology and aims to provide a new networking platform for knowledge and expertise exchange across borders. As researchers of very related topics in neighboring regions we are excited to widen our perspectives by creating the opportunity to discuss methods, tools, challenges and successes with people of similar mindset. To vitalize the communication amongst researchers from the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, there will be three independent conferences held in Maastricht, Aachen and Liège. The first appointment will be in Maastricht on 9th March, for more details look at: http://projects.bigcat.unimaas.nl/bytemal/ The conferences are especially aimed at young researchers - master students, PhD students, and Post-docs. It will give participants the opportunity to learn top-notch research from experienced professors in the same field, present their current work on posters, and discuss their own developed tools and approaches with each other. We are looking forward to seeing you. Kind regards Elisa Cirillo and Ryan Miller PhD students Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://bigcat.unimaas.nl/) emails: elisa.cirillo(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl, ryan.miller(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl Phone: (+31 43 38) 81993

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Training Event: Successful Planning of Large Data Generating Experiments - Leuven, 16 March 2016
by Alexander Botzki | VIB | 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Successful Planning of Large Data Generating Experiments - Leuven, 16 March 2016 Since recent years, biologists are joining the big-data club. Due to the strong growth of high-throughput Omics technologies, life scientists are under the continuous pressure to deal with massive data sets, encountering challenges when having to handle, process and move data. This workshop is organized with the aim of providing a proper foundation once planning large data generating experiments. With the focus of giving practical recommendations and valuable tips and tricks, the following areas will be covered during the workshop. * Think before you start * Know your experiment: profile the method/instrument for typical error sizes (biological, technical), consistency of performance, ... * Suitable Experimental design: randomization, sample size, power analysis, ... * Data Types and post-acquisition quality control * Organizing effective collaborations between wet-lab and dry-lab biologists for setting up a data analysis strategy and pipeline * Are there existing datasets available that can be used to answer your questions. Where to find these? * Construction of a data analysis plan The training<http://trainingvib.cmail20.com/t/r-l-vlihtkt-ddilikdhjt-m/> intends to have fruitful interactions between speakers and participants and will be followed by a 2 day conference on Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences, a VIB Conference. Confirmed speakers: * Judith Boer (Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, NL) * Rekin's Janky (VIB Nucleomics Core, BE) * Jonathan Mangoin (Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK) * Stuart Maudsley (VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp, BE) * Peter-Bram 't Hoen (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, NL) * Wouter Van Delm (VIB Nucleomics Core, BE) * Silvie Van den Hoecke (VIB Medical Biotechnology Center, UGent, BE) * Dries Vaneechoutte (VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent, BE) * Dries Verdegem (VIB Vesalius Research Center, KU Leuven, BE) * Luc Wouters (Statistical Consultant, BE) Have a look at the program on the training website<http://trainingvib.cmail20.com/t/r-l-vlihtkt-ddilikdhjt-c/> and sign up to join us on Wednesday 16 March 2016 in Leuven (Provinciehuis Vlaams-Brabant, at walking distance from Leuven railway station). We hope to welcome you at the training event Successful Planning of Large Data Generating Experiments<http://trainingvib.cmail20.com/t/r-l-vlihtkt-ddilikdhjt-q/>! Best regards, TRAINING AT VIB Alexander Botzki Manager BITS Core Facility Training coordinator ELIXIR-BE VIB BITS Rijvisschestraat 126 9052 Zwijnaarde Belgium http://www.bits.vib.be [MAIL SIGNATURE - ABLS]

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ECCB 2016 Extended deadline: Call for workshops, SIGs and tutorials
by Femke Francissen 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

*ECCB 2016 / 15th European Conference on Computational Biology * *3-7 September 2016, *World Forum Convention Center, The Hague, The Netherlands. Conference website: http://www.eccb2016.org *Extended deadline: Call for workshops, SIGs and tutorials - January 22* We have decided to extend the deadline for submitting a proposal for a workshop, SIG workshop or tutorial to* January 22, 2016*! This gives you one more week to work on your proposal! The workshops and tutorials are planned on September 3 and 4, 2016 in the World Forum in The Hague, immediately preceding the ECCB 2016. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/> *Update keynote speakers* We are proud to welcome the following keynote speakers to the ECCB 2016: - *Hans Clevers*, director Research of the Princess Maxima Center for pediatric oncology. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/hans-clever/> - *Nuria Lopez-Bigas, *ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and head of the Biomedical Genomics group of the joint Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, GRIB (IMIMUPF) at Barcelona (Spain). Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/nuria-lopez-bigas/> - *John Marioni, *Group Leader of Computational and Evolutionary Genomics at the EMBL-EBI, Hinxton (UK). Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/john-marioni/> - *Benedict Paten, *assistant director of the Center for Big Data in Translational Genomics at UC Santa Cruz. Benedict Paten directs the UC Santa Cruz Center for Big Data in Translation Genomics. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/speakers/benedict-paten/> *Scientific key dates* *Workshops/SIGs/Tutorials* 22 January 2016 submission deadline for workshop/SIG's/ tutorial proposals 10 February 2016 acceptance notification for workshops/SIG's/ tutorials *Proceeding papers, Highlight papers and Application track* 25 January 2016 call for papers, highlight papers and application track open 29 March 2016 submission deadline for papers, highlight papers and application track 23 May 2016 acceptance notification for papers, highlight papers and application track *Posters* 25 January 2016 call for posters open 13 June 2016 submission deadline for posters 14 July 2016 acceptance notification for posters Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/keydates/>

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Extended abstract deadline for Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences - 25th of January 2016
by Alexander Botzki | VIB | 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Extended abstract deadline is January 25, 2016! Dear colleague, The first edition of the two day event 'Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences' ( http://www.vibconferences.be/event/applied-bioinformatics-in-life-sciences ) organized by the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), will take place on March 17-18, 2016 in Leuven, Belgium. Present your research with a poster or talk You can showcase your own research to the international research community during the poster sessions at the conference. The best abstracts will be selected to give a presentation as well. The extended deadline for the abstract submission is January 25, 2016. You can upload your abstract on the conferences website. In the last week of January you will receive an email concerning your acceptation. All accepted abstracts will be included in the program book. PhD and junior researchers discount VIB supports junior researchers and PhD students. For Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences we do this by giving a significant discount when registering before February 1, 2016. For more registration info, please visit the conferences website. Limited places for the Meet the Expert session with Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann VIB Conferences offers all junior researchers the opportunity to join our 'Meet the Expert' session with Prof. Dr. Matthias Mann (MPI.DE), one of our top speakers. During an informal round table discussion, PhD students and postdocs will have the exclusive opportunity to ask any question/advise related to their research and careers. If you are interested in joining the session then send an e-mail to conferences(a)vib.be. Seating is very limited so make sure to reserve a spot soon! Final program View our final program with top scientists including: Matthias Mann (MPI.DE), Peer Bork (EMBL.DE), Luis Serrano (CGR.ES), Nuria Lopez-Bigas (University of Pompeu Fabra, ES) Christine Orengo (UCL, UK), Eran Segal (Weizmann Institute, IL), and many more. http://www.vibconferences.be/event/applied-bioinformatics-in-life-sciences We hope to meet you at the conference, Alexander Botzki VIB Bioinformatics Training and Service facility, VIB HQ On behalf of the organizing committee

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Vacancy Postdoc Computational Scientist
by Frederik Coppens 08 Jan '16

08 Jan '16

Dear may I ask to spread this vacancy in your network: we are urgently looking to fill a Postdoc position for a Computational Scientists at the VIB department of Plant Systems Biology in Ghent, Belgium. The project focuses on RNA-seq analysis of maize and integration of these data with multiple data sources (e.g. genomics, phenotyping, metabolomics, other transcriptomics). In this project we study the regulation of plant growth in relation to the environment, in particular drought. The majority of the data are produced in house by the group of Dirk Inzé and the selected candidate will work closely with the experimental team. If you are interested please apply online: http://www.vib.be/en/jobs/Pages/Postdoctoral-Scientist-Computational-Biolog… regards Frederik ================================================================== Frederik Coppens, Ph.D. Project Leader Applied Bioinformatics & Biostatistics IT manager Tel: 32 (0)9 3313812 Fax:32 (0)9 3313809 VIB DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, UGent Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM frcop(a)psb.ugent.be http://www.psb.ugent.be/abb ==================================================================

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GATK Best Practices for Variant Discovery workshop 14-15 April 2016
by Bert Overduin 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

Dear all, I am very happy to announce that, after the success of the GATK workshop last year, Edinburgh Genomics again has been able to get a 3-person-strong team from the Broad Institute in Boston over to Edinburgh to deliver a two-day workshop on 14 and 15 April 2016. This workshop will focus on the core steps involved in calling variants with the Broad’s Genome Analysis Toolkit ( https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/) using the “Best Practices” developed by the GATK team. The workshop is composed of one day of lectures (including many opportunities for Q&A) and one optional day of hands-on training. For more information and to register, please visit https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/gatk-best-practices-variant- <https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/gatk-best-practices-variant-discovery>discovery <https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/gatk-best-practices-variant-discovery>. Note that for the hands-on part places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Also note that a similar workshop will be given on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 April 2016 at the University of Oxford. For more information about this, please contact David Sims (david.sims(a)dpag.ox.ac.uk) Please feel free to forward this mail to anyone else potentially interested and/or to print out the attached flyer for further distribution. Hope to see many of you in April! With kind regards, Bert -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin(a)ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Master Internship opportunity at European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine on omics data integration
by Bertrand 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Dear all, We are offering a 6-months master student internship at the European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine (EISBM) in Lyon,France, as part of the exploitation of the data generated during the U-BIOPRED severe asthma research project. The position will allow an intern to participate in the legacy of a state-of-the-art EU Systems Medicine project and the work conducted during the internship will lead to the publication of at least one high-level scientific article. We are looking for a master student with R and Bioconductor programming skills, a good background in biostatistics and good English level. Enthusiastic and motivated candidates are encouraged to contact Prof. Charles Auffray (jobs(a)eisbm.org) with a CV and a brief motivation letter, before December 15, 2015. Additional information can be found in the attached file. Please circulate this offer to anyone interested! Best regards, Bertrand De Meulder -- EISBM logo <http://www.eisbm.org> *Bertrand De Meulder Researcher * European Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine Campus Charles Mérieux - Université de Lyon CNRS - UCBL - ENS *E-mail:*bdemeulder@eisbm.org <mailto:bdemeulder@eisbm.org> *Office:* +33(0)4 37 28 74 41 *Office* Université Claude Bernard 3^e étage plot 2 50 Avenue Tony Garnier 69366 Lyon cedex 07 France *Laboratory* LyonBioPôle - Centre d'Infectiologie 2^e étage Bât. Domilyon 321 Avenue Jean Jaurès 69007 Lyon France Follow us : EISBM eisbm.org <http://www.eisbm.org> | Facebook Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/EISBM> | Twitter Twitter <http://twitter.com/EISBM_EU>

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AlCoB 2016: 3rd call for papers
by GRLMC 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ************************************************************************************ 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY ALCOB 2016 TRUJILLO, SPAIN JUNE 21-23, 2016 Organized by: Computer Architecture and Logic Design Group (ARCO) University of Extremadura Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies (CETA-Ciemat) Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/ ************************************************************************************ AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. Previous events were held in Tarragona (2014) and Mexico City (2015). The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2016 will take place in Trujillo, homeland of the so-called "conquistadores" who arrived in Peru in the XVI century. The venue will be the Extremadura Centre for Advanced Technologies. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2016 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Evan Eichler (University of Washington, Seattle), De Novo Genome Assembly and Structural Variation S. Cenk Sahinalp (SimonFraserUniversity), Big Data Algorithmics for Cancer Genomics David Sankoff (University of Ottawa), The Evolution of Gene Order in the Flowering Plants PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Can Alkan (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) Timothy L. Bailey (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Vladimir Bajic (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) Geoff Barton (University of Dundee, UK) Inanc Birol (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) Jacek Błażewicz (PoznańUniversity of Technology, Poland) Alan P. Boyle (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) Vladimir Brusic (NazarbayevUniversity, Astana, Kazakhstan) Liming Cai (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, Italy) Ken Chen (University of Texas MD AndersonCancerCenter, Houston, USA) Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Laurent Gautier (Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, USA) Manolo Gouy (ClaudeBernardUniversity Lyon 1, France) Michael Gribskov (PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, USA) Iman Hajirasouliha (Stanford University, USA) John Hancock (Genome Analysis Centre, Norwich, UK) Artemis Hatzigeorgiou (University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece) Fereydoun Hormozdiari (University of California, Davis, USA) Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, Japan) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Lukasz Kurgan (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) Bill Majoros (DukeUniversity, Durham, USA) Lennart Martens (Ghent University, Belgium) Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, Tarragona, Spain, chair) Folker Meyer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Kenta Nakai (University of Tokyo, Japan) Matteo Pellegrini (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Mihaela Pertea (JohnsHopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, USA) Ben Raphael (BrownUniversity, Providence, USA) Paolo Ribeca (Pirbright Institute, Woking, UK) Denis Shields (UniversityCollegeDublin, Ireland) Fredj Tekaia (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France) Alessandro Verri (University of Genova, Italy) Fuli Yu (BaylorCollege of Medicine, Houston, USA) Daniel Zerbino (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Kaizhong Zhang (University of WesternOntario, London, Canada) Weixiong Zhang (WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis, USA) Zhongming Zhao (VanderbiltUniversity, Nashville, USA) Yaoqi Zhou (GriffithUniversity, Brisbane, Australia) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) LOCAL COMMITTEE: Leslye Alarcón (Cáceres) María Botón-Fernández (Trujillo, co-chair) José M. Granado-Criado (Cáceres) Sergio Santander-Jiménez (Cáceres) Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres, co-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, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for 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=alcob2016 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the journal IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB, 2014 JCR impact factor: 1.438, quartile Q1) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially 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 October 30, 2015 to June 21, 2016. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2016/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: January 26, 2016 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 1, 2016 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 15, 2016 Early registration: March 15, 2016 Late registration: June 7, 2016 Submission to the journal special issue: September 23, 2016 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2016 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Centro Extremeño de Tecnologías Avanzadas (CETA-CIEMAT) Universidad de Extremadura Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Reminder: ECCB 2016 Call for workshops/SIGS and tutorials
by Femke Francissen 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

*-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2016)* *3-7 September 2016* World Forum Convention Center The Hague, The Netherlands Website: http://www.eccb2016.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Reminder: Call for workshops and tutorials* We would like to remind you that the call for workshops and tutorials at the ECCB 2016 is open. The workshops and tutorials are planned on September 3 and 4, 2016 in the World Forum in The Hague, immediately preceding the ECCB 2016. *Deadline for proposal submission is: January 13, 2016* *Workshops / SIGs* The workshops are expected to provide participants with an informal setting to discuss technical issues, exchange research ideas, and to share practical experiences on a range of focused or emerging topics in bioinformatics. SIGs are workshops organized by a special interest group. Each workshop should provide an interesting perspective on the cutting edge of a selected research field. Workshops may include any form of presentation such as talks or panel discussions. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/workshops/> *Tutorials* The purpose of the tutorial program is to provide participants with lectures and hands-on training covering topics relevant to the field of bioinformatics. Each tutorial will offer participants an opportunity to learn about new areas of bioinformatics research, to get an introduction to important established topics, or to develop advanced skills in areas they are already familiar with. This call is an invitation for scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology to submit proposals for high quality tutorials for ECCB 2016. Read more <http://www.eccb2016.org/calls/tutorials/> The conference is hosted by: BioSB research school <http://www.biosb.nl/>, Dutch Techcentre for Life Sciences <http://www.dtls.nl/> and co-organised by: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology Contact: info(a)eccb2016.org

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BigDat 2016: early registration deadline 8 January
by GRLMC 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ******************************************************** 2ND INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOLON BIG DATA BIGDAT 2016 BILBAO, SPAIN FEBRUARY 8-12, 2016 Organized by: DeustoTech, University of Deusto Rovira i VirgiliUniversity http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2016/ ******************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: January 8, 2016 --- ******************************************************** AIM: BigDat 2016 will be a research training event addressed to graduates and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures, 19 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. ADDRESSED TO: Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of them. BigDat 2016 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 2-3 courses will run in parallel 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: BigDat 2016 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the GuggenheimMuseum. The venue will be: DeustoTech, School of Engineering University of Deusto Avda. Universidades, 24 48014 Bilbao KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Nektarios Benekos (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Role of Computing and Software in Particle Physics Chih-Jen Lin (NationalTaiwanUniversity), When and When Not to Use Distributed Machine Learning Jeffrey Ullman (StanfordUniversity), Theory of MapReduce Algorithms Alexandre Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory), Big Data Technologies and Data Science Methods in the Higgs Boson Discovery PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Nektarios Benekos (European Organization for Nuclear Research), [introductory/intermediate] Exploring the Mysteries of our Cosmos: the Big Deal between Big Data and Big Science Hendrik Blockeel (KU Leuven), [intermediate] Decision Trees for Big Data Analytics Edward Y. Chang (HTC Health, Taipei), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data Analytics for Healthcare: Scalable Algorithms and Applications Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), [introductory] THINKBIG: Towards Large Scale Computational Social Sciences, History and Digital Humanities Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan & EBTIC/Khalifa University), [introductory/intermediate] Architectures, Models and Tools for Big-Data-as-a-Service Francisco Herrera (University of Granada), [introductory] Big Data Preprocessing George Karypis (University of Minnesota), [intermediate/advanced] Scaling Up Recommender Systems Chih-Jen Lin (NationalTaiwanUniversity), [introductory/intermediate] Large-scale Linear Classification Geoff McLachlan (University of Queensland), [intermediate/advanced] Big Data Extensions of Some Methods of Classification and Clustering Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/intermediate] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences Raymond Ng (University of British Columbia), [introductory/intermediate] Mining and Summarizing Text Conversations Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute), [introductory/advanced] Machine Intelligence and Granular Mining: Relevance to Big Data Erhard Rahm (University of Leipzig), [introductory/intermediate] Scalable and Privacy-preserving Data Integration Hanan Samet (University of Maryland), [introductory/intermediate] Sorting in Space: Multidimensional, Spatial, and Metric Data Structures for Applications in Spatial Databases, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Location-based Services Jaideep Srivastava (Qatar Computing Research Institute), [intermediate] Social Computing: Computing as an Integral Tool to Understanding Human Behavior and Solving Problems of Social Relevance Jeffrey Ullman (StanfordUniversity), [introductory] Big Data Algorithms that Aren't Machine Learning Alexandre Vaniachine (Argonne National Laboratory), [introductory/advanced] Big Data: Comparison with Computational Models Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Big Data Analytics for Social Networks Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), [introductory/intermediate] Large Scale Graph Analytics and Mining OPEN SESSION An open session will collect 5-minute presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to adrian.dediu (at) urv.cat by February 5, 2016. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair) Iker Pastor López (co-chair) Borja Sanz (co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2016/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. 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 and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Participants are expected to attend full-time. Fees are a flat rate allowing the attendance to all courses during the week. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions of accommodation are available on the webpage. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: University of Deusto Rovira i Virgili University

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