The BioCircuits Institute, Physical Chemistry and The Lindenberg Lab Group Present:

 

Mini-Conference:  “The Many Faces of Computation”

http://www.kawai.phy.uab.edu/workshops/UCSD2014/

 

Organizers:  Christian Van den Broeck and Katja Lindenberg

Contacts: Cookie Santamaria cookie@ucsd.edu or Katja Lindenberg klindenberg@ucsd.edu

 

July 14-15, 2014

University of California, San Diego

Urey Room 2102

Urey Hall

 

 

Monday July 14

 

9-10 a.m.

Welcome and light snacks

 

10-11 a.m.

Christian Van den Broeck “A short introduction to large deviations”

 

11 a.m.-12 noon

Raul Toral “Efficient sampling of phase space”

 

12 noon-2 p.m.

Lunch break and discussion time

 

2-3 p.m.

Alberto Imparato “Efficiency at maximum power in molecular motors”

 

3-4 p.m.

Ilkay Altintas “Workflow-driven science”

 

4-5 p.m.

Discussion time

 

Tuesday July 15

 

9-10 a.m.

Welcome and light snacks

 

10-11 a.m.

Emre Neftci “From VLSI spiking neurons to practical applications and cognition”

 

11 a.m.-12 noon

Michael Gilson ”Plumbing the depths of entropy and enthalphy in molecular recognition”

 

12 noon-2 p.m. Lunch break and discussion time

 

2-3 p.m.

Daniel Escaff “Down from systems of infinite to finite numbers of elements: Computational aspects of the analysis of resultant fluctuations”

 

3-4 p.m.

Tristan Webb “Utilizing purely functional parallel strategies for spiking neural network simulations”

 

4-5 p.m. Discussion time