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An undergraduate-accessible talk.
In this talk, I will try to give you an idea of how mathematicians manage to say anything meaningful about higher-dimensional spaces, and relate this to the recent proof of the Poincare conjecture that won the Millennium Prize of the Clay Institute. Besides bringing your enquiring minds, at least 50% of the audience needs to bring a belt for those articles will play a key role in our discussion.
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A discussion of the papers "Accurate SHAPE-directed RNA structure
determination" by Deigan et al (2008) and "SHAPE-directed RNA secondary
structure prediction" by Low and Weeks (2010).
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A discussion of the paper "Complete suboptimal folding of RNA and the stability of secondary structures" by Wuchty et al (1999).
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Workshop Theme: Submodular functions are discrete analogues of convex functions, arising in various fields of computer science and operations research. Since the seminal work of Jack Edmonds (1970), submodularity has long been recognized as a common structure of many efficiently solvable combinatorial optimization problems. Recent algorithmic developments in the past decade include combinatorial strongly polynomial algorithm for minimization, constant factor approximation algorithms for maximization, and efficient methods for learning submodular functions. In addition, submodular functions find novel applications in combinatorial auctions, machine learning, and social networks. This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers from a variety of backgrounds for exchanging results, ideas, and problems on submodular optimization and its applications. The workshop will be held from March 19-22, 2012. For complete details and workshop program, please see
the website.
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The viruses that infect bacteria have a hallowed position in the
development of modern biology, and once inspired Max Delbruck refer to them
as "the atom of biology". Recently, these viruses have become the subject of
intensive physical investigation. Using single-molecule techniques, it is
actually possible to watch these viruses in the act of packing and ejecting
their DNA. This talk will begin with a general introduction to viruses
and their life cycles and will then focus on simple physical arguments about
the forces that attend viral DNA packaging and ejection, predictions about
the ejection process and single-molecule measurements of ejection itself.
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Booksigning to follow.
Author and biologist Bernd Heinrich will discuss
his research into the biological mysteries of social
insects and birds, including the seemingly illogical
food-sharing behavior of ravens.
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The paper "Complete probabilistic analysis of RNA shapes" (2006) by Voss, Giegerich, and Rehmsmeier will be discussed.
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The paper "Abstract shapes of RNA" (2004) by Giegerich, Voss, and Rehmsmeier will be discussed.
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The 5th in a series of 9 mini-conferences features Jacob Fox as the prominent researcher who will give 2 fifty-minute lectures and 4 other outstanding researchers each giving one fifty-minute lecture. There will also be several 25-minute lectures by young researchers and graduate students. The lectures will begin at 1 PM on Saturday, February 25 and conclude at at noon on Sunday, February 26.To register, please send an email to rg@mathcs.emory.edu and for complete details, see the website. Registration is free.
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The purpose of the GSC Symposium is to provide an opportunity for professors, postdocs, and graduate students in the Atlanta area to meet in an informal setting, to exchange ideas, and to highlight local scientific computing research. Certainly, the symposium is open to whole mathematics and computer sciences communities.
Three previous meetings were held at Emory University (2009), Georgia Institute of Technology (2010), and Emory University (2011). The 2012 GSC Symposium will be held at the University of Georgia campus and is organized by Dept. of Mathematics, University of Georgia.
The following researchers have agreed to give invited plenary lectures:
David Bader, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Michele Benzi, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University;
Sung Ha Kang, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Tianming Liu, Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Georgia;
Andrew Sornborger, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Georgia.
There will be two poster sessions. Anyone attending this symposium may present a poster. We especially encourage graduate students and postdocs to use this opportunity displaying their research results. Please register at the
website.
