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