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
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