CICM 2015 - Communications, Inference, and Computing in Molecular and Biological Systems Workshop

Communications, Inference, and Computing in Molecular and Biological Systems Workshop
http://mbmc.info/index.php/2015-workshop/
December 3-4, 2015, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Organizers: Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California and Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada
In conjunction with the 2015 launch of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications (http://www.comsoc.org/tmbmc) and the IEEE Globecom Conference in San Diego (December 6-10, 2015), we are holding a workshop on Communications, Inference, and Computing in Molecular and Biological Systems. The workshop begins at noon with lunch on December 3 and completes at 5:30pm on December 4, 2015. The workshop will be held on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles with easy access to Los Angeles International Airport, train and metro service.
Confirmed Speakers:
Behnaam Aazhang Rice University ? signal processing methods for neuroscience
Todd Coleman UCSD ? neural inference/brain-machine interfaces
Elisa Franco UC Riverside ? bio-molecular feedback, biochemical oscillators
Scott Fraser USC ? quantitative biology/compressed sensing for translational imaging
Andrea Goldsmith Stanford ? directed information & neuroscience; DNA microarray analysis
Pablo Iglesias JHU ? cellular signaling and control
Olgica Milenkovic UIUC ? bioinformatics & coding theory
Andrew Mugler Purdue ? biological networks, Quantitative systems biology
Lulu Qian CalTech ? neural network computing
Marc Riedel U of Minnesota ? biological circuits
Robert Schober University of Erlangen-Nurnberg -- molecular communication
Gurol Suel UCSD ? emergent dynamics in microbial systems
David Tse Stanford University ? information theoretic analysis of DNA sequences
Haris Vikalo UT Austin ? DNA sequencing/low-rank methods for bio-informatics
Mihaela van der Schaar UCLA ? bacterial self-organization
Erik Winfree CalTech ? molecular programming
Poster abstracts should be submitted by November 13, 2015 (extended deadline) to Andrew Eckford at aeckford-AT-yorku.ca for presentation at the workshop. All poster presenters will have the opportunity to give a lightning overview of their poster. We will have a reception and meals (lunches,breakfast) and coffee breaks during the workshop. A block of rooms will be held at the Radisson Hotel, walking distance to the Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering Department. For more information, see http://mbmc.info/index.php/2015-workshop/
Important dates
November 13, 2015 ? poster abstract submission
November 13, 2015 -- early registration deadline at mbmc.info ($100 students, $150 non-students)
December 3, 2015 -- late registration at mbmc.info ($150 students, $200 non-students)
December 3-4, 2015 -- Workshop
If you have any questions regarding logistics, please contact Ms. Christina Tang-Bernas tangbern-AT-usc.edu
If you have any questions regarding the technical program, please contact Prof. Urbashi Mitra ubli-AT-usc.edu
This workshop has received financial support from the Ming Hsieh Institute, the USC Provost’s Office, the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society.