CCS Open Day 2008

Tentative Schedule

Thursday, September 18

08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Opening

Morning Session

Chair: tba

09:00 – 09:30 Marcus W Feldman, Stanford - Title tba

09:30 – 10:00 Yona Kassir - Faithful Modeling of Transient Expression and its Application to Elucidating Robust Meiosis

10:00 – 10:20 Eran Bouchbinder, Weakly Nonlinear Theory of Dynamic Fracture

10:20 – 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:20 Shuki Bruck, Caltech - Molecular Computing and Probabilistic Circuits

11:20 – 11:40 Alon Wellner, Neutrality of foreign complex subunits in an experimental model of lateral gene transfer

11:40 – 12:00 Baruch Brazel, HUJI - Simple Simulations for Complex Networks

12:00 – 13:30 Poster session and lunch

13:30 – 13:50 Adiel Loinger, Stochastic simulations of genetic regulatory networks

13:50 – 14:20 Eitan Rubin, Graphlet Degree Vectors: a biologically meaningful, protein centric representation of local topologies in the PPI network

Afternoon Session

Chair: tba

14:20 – 14:50 Daniel Segre, Boston U, Title tba

14:50 – 15:20 Edward Trifonov, Alignment of non-matching sequences via networks in sequence space

15:20 – 15:40 Anat Almog, Unifying Unknown Nodes in the Internet Graph Using Semisupervised Spectral Clustering

15:40 – 16:10 Aviv De-Morgan, A genome-wide analysis reveals significant overlap of transcription and DNA turnover in stationary phase yeast

16:10 – 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 – 17:10 Andrzej Nowak, Information and influence in social networks

17:10 – 17:30 Yishai Shimoni, Stochastic Analysis of Bi-stability in Mixed Feedback Loops

17:30 – 17:50 Ronen Segev - Color Adaptation in the Retina / Color coding in a continues stimulus by archer fish retinal ganglion cells