SorinFest: Phase Transitions in Computer Science and Computational Biology
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Day 1 Talks
Introductory Remarks: Sohini Ramachandran and Roberto Tamassia
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