Istrail Lab

SorinFest: Phase Transitions in Computer Science and Computational Biology

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Day 1 Talks

Craig Venter: Past, Present, and Future of Genomics with introduction by Mike Waterman

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Bonnie Berger: 21st Century Genomics Minimizer Space Computation with introduction by Ritambhara Singh

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Thomas Ising: Introductory Remarks

Richard Stratt: Why are There Different Phases of Matter?

Michael Kosterlitz: Topological Defects and Phase Transitions

The Inaugural Ising-Onsager Distinguished Lecture

Bill Camp: Never Make a Calculation Unless You Know the Answer

Henri Lucian: Sorin's Twenties' Jubilee

Andrea Califino: Defeating Cancer One Cell at a Time

Caleb Finch: Socio-economic Gradients of Development in Pathways of Aging

Andy Clark: Allele-Specific Expression as a Pairwise Contest

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Laxmi Parida: How, if not AI?

Ernie Brickell: The Origin of Sorin's Computational Biology Research

Bill Hart: Combinatorial Protein Folding with Sorin

Franco Preparata: How it Began at Brown

Day 2 Talks

Misha Gromov: Invisible Mathematics of Learning and Understanding

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Jon Kleinberg: Transition, Mutation, and Fitness

Ron Shamir: Algorithms for Multinomic Disease Data

Moshe Vardi: How to be an Ethical Computer Scientist

Peter Shor: The Motzkin and Fredkin Quantum Spin Chains

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ Evolving a Useful Language

Ken Dill: The Molecular Origins of Life - The Protein Folding Problem all Over Again? with introduction by Brenda Rubenstein

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Vineet Bafna: Introductory Remarks

Gene Meyers: Sorting for Speed

John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture

Pavel Pevzner: From Ulam's Problem to Sequence Alignment

Liliana Florea: Unraveling the Combinatorial Design of Genes

Giuseppe Lancia: Beating the Quadratic Algorithm

Sridhar Hannenhalli - Prioritizing Non-Coding Mutations in Evolution and in Cancer

Jonathan Yewdell: Whither the MHC | Immunopeptidome?

Jason Miller: Machine Learning and RNA-seq Alignment

Daniel Fasulo: Type 2 Diabetes and the Gut Microbiome

Sorin Istrail: My Family

Dinner Pictures

Welcoming Dinner at Bayberry Garden

Hope Club Dinner

Dinner Keynote by Brown University President Christina Paxson
Dinner Lecture by Barry Cipra: "Ising, Istrail, and I"
Brief remarks: Sohini Ramachandran, Sorin

Brown Faculty Club Dinner

Brief remarks: Sorin, Craig Venter, Bjarni Halldorsson, Serafim Batzoglou, Bonnie Berger, Derek Aguiar, Mike Waterman, Russell Schwartz, Sorin Dragici