CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science: computational and mathematical biology CWI, the Dutch national research center for mathematics and computer sciences, and the Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology (NISB) cordially invite you to the 2009 edition of the annual CWI Lectures in Mathematics and Computer Science. To celebrate the start of CWI's new research group "Life Sciences", this year's theme will be Computational and Mathematical Biology. The lectures feature Turing Award winner Richard Karp from the University of California at Berkely, and tumor modeling specialist Luigi Preziosi from the Politecnico di Torino. For registration and more information about the lectures and Life Sciences research at CWI, please visit: http://www.cwi.nl/CWILectures2009. For more information please contact Gunnar Klau (gunnar.klau@cwi.nl; 020-5924012) or Roeland Merks (roeland.merks@cwi.nl; 020-5924117). Date: June 4th, 2009 Location: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam. Note: old address (same location): Kruislaan 403, 1098SJ The Science Park has a frequent bus connection from railway stations Amsterdam Amstel and Amsterdam Muiderpoort: line 40 or 240. It can also be reached on foot (15-20 mins) from Amsterdam Muiderpoort. Program: 09.30 Welcome with coffee 10.00 - 10.05 Introduction Jan Karel Lenstra (general director of CWI) 10.05 - 11.00 Richard Karp (UC Berkeley, USA): Combinatorial Methods in Computational Molecular Biology 11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break 11.30 - 12.15 Gunnar Klau (CWI, Amsterdam) : What does city heating have to do with lymph cancer? 12.15 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 15.00 Luigi Preziosi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy): Modelling Cell Motion, Aggregation and Scattering 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break 15.30 - 16.15 Roeland Merks (CWI Amsterdam): Culturing embryonic tissues in the computer 16.15 - 17.30 Closing drinks