THE MANY FACES OF COMPUTATION
July 14-15, 2014
Urey Room 2102, Urey Hall Building
UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Organizers: Christian Van den Broeck and Katja Lindenberg
MONDAY, JULY 14th
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 15th
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