DIMACS Workshop on Computational Biology, as part of the 50th Anniversary of ENIAC: Program

  Friday morning's sessions will be held at: Woodrow Wilson School
  (located on the corner of Washington Road and Prospect Avenue) in Dodd
  Auditorium.  Lunch and the afternoon sessions will be held in the Computer
  Science Department located at the corner of William & Olden Streets.


Friday, May 17, 1996

Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School
Washington Rd. & Prospect
Dodds Auditorium

 8:30- 9:00   Introductions

 9:00-10:30   STRUCTURE

		Mona Singh
                Craig Benham 

10:30-10:45   Coffee Break 

10:45-11:30   Peter Shor

11:30- 1:00   Lunch

	Lunch & afternoon sessions at Dept. of Computer
	Science, 35 Olden Street, Rm. 104, Large Auditorium

 1:00- 3:30   GENOME REARRANGEMENTS

	      Pavel Pevzner

	      David Sankoff

        "Conserved sigment identification"

	      John Paul Vergard

        "Sorting by bounded block move"

 3:00- 3:30   Coffee Break

 3:30- 4:15   Rob Lipschutz

	      TBA


 4:15- 4:45   Discussion (alternatively, another talk;
	       and the bus leaves later than 4:45)

 4:45         Bus leaves for Penn for banquet

 9:00	      Bus returns from Penn


Saturday, May 18, 1996

 8:30- 9:00   Coffee Break

 9:00-11:00   DATABASES:

	      Sue Davidson
	
	      Victor Markowitz

	      Chris Overton

	      Matti Nykanen

	      Terry Gaassterland

11:00-11:15   Coffee Break

11:15-12:00   Sampath Kannan

        "An overview on the phylogeny problem"

12:00- 1:30   Lunch

 1:30- 2:45   CONTRIBUTED TALKS

	      Paul Kearney

        "Tree reconstruction from dissimilarity orders"

	      Bhaskar Dasgupta

        "On distances between phylogenetic trees"

	      Spencer Muse

        "Exploring gene function with molecular studies of evolution"

 2:45- 3:00   Coffee Break

 3:00- 4:30   NEUROBIOLOGY:

	      Eero Simoncelli

	      Bill Bialek

        "What is the brain trying to compute?"

 4:30- 6:00   CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION & POSTER SESSION

        Evening Session on education, limited to small group


Sunday, May 19, 1996

 9:00-10:30   GENOME REPEATS:

	      Gary Benson

	      Jeanette Schmidt

10:30-10:45   Coffee Break

11:00-12:00   Mike Waterman

12:00-12:30   Lunch

 1:00- 1:30   CONTRIBUTED TALKS

	      Elizabeth Sweedyk

        "Approximating the shortest superstring"

              Anthony Bonner

        "Good maps are straight"

              Aleksander Miloslavljevic 

        "Genome-scale DNA sequence recognition by hybridization to short oligomers"

	      Peter Yianilos

        "Significantly lower entropy estimates for natural DNA sequences"

 3:30- 3:45   Coffee Break

 3:45- 5:30   Jose Lederberg & Craig Benham:

        Past/Future of the field
 
 5:30         Conclusion of the Conference

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