Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS/BioMaPS/MB Center Special Focus on Information Processing in Biology.
This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center).
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
8:00 - 12:00 Registration
Chair: Panos Pardalos
8:00 - 8:15 Panos Pardalos - Conference Opening
8:15 - 8:30 Joseph Hartman - Opening Remarks
8:30 - 9:30 Does the Brain Exhibit any Dynamic Approximation Capabilities in
Learning and Pattern Recognition?
Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Onur Seref
10:00 - 10:30 Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for Spike Train Analysis
Jose C. Principe
10:30 - 11:00 Mining the Injured Neuroproteome at the Molecular and Functional Level
Andrew Ottens
11:00 - 11:30 Do Individual Differences in Cortical Anatomy Affect Cognition?
Christiana Leonard
11:30 - 12:00 Neural Oscillations: Characterization and Function
Mingzhou Ding
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Erhun Kundakcioglu
2:00 - 2:00 Use of Stem Cells in Alzheimer's Disease
Kimonobu Sugaya
2:00 - 2:30 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Anatomical and Effective Connectivity
Paul Carney
2:30 - 3:00 Co-Adaptive Brain-Machine Interfaces via Reinforcement Learning
Justin Sanchez
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Petros Xanthopoulos
3:30 - 4:00 Continuous Physiological Monitoring in TBI Patients
and their Correlation to Biomarker Values
Monica Oli
4:00 - 4:30 Age-Related Changes in Dynamics of Spike-Wave Discharges in Rats
Sandeep Nair
4:30 - 5:00 Queueing Modeling of Mental Workload and its
Application in Intelligent System Design
Changxu Wu
5:00 - 5:30 Biomodecule-Inspired Methods for Coarse-Grain Multi-System Optimization
Max Garzon
7:00 - 10:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday, February 21, 2008
8:00 - 12:00 Registration
Chair: Panos Pardalos
8:00 - 9:00 Phase Response Curves, Epilepsy, Networks, Hippocampus, Seizure
Theoden Netoff
9:00 - 9:30 Unverricht-Lundborg Disease: Challenges in
Treatment and Outcome Measures
Basim Uthman
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Chair: Art Chaovalitwongse
10:00 - 10:30 Parametric Modeling Approach to Optical Imaging Data
Finds Close Input-Output Relation between the Central Neuronal
Activity and the Respiratory Motor Output in the Neonatal Rat Brainstem
Shigeharu Kawai
10:30 - 11:00 Failing Feedback as a Mechanism to Generate Epileptic Seizures
Konstantinos Tsakalis
11:00 - 11:30 Investigating Functional Cooperation in the Human Cortex
with Graph-Theoretic Methods
Michael Anderson
11:30 - 12:00 Iron Imaging and Analysis in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mark Davidson
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
Chair: Michael Bewernitz
1:30 - 2:00 Data Mining Application for Processing EEG Obtained from Epileptic
Patients Treated with Vagus Nerve Stimulation
Nikita Boyko
2:00 - 2:30 Seizure Monitoring and Alert System for Brain Monitoring
in an Intensive Care Unit
Alla Kammerdiner
2:30 - 3:00 A Novel Generalized Spike-Wave Detector: Towards
Real-Time Applications in Epilepsy
Michael Bewernitz
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
Chair: Chang-Chia Liu
3:30 - 4:00 Testing an Seizure Prediction Algorithm: Assessment of Performance
Deng Shiau
4:00 - 4:30 Classification of Normal and Abnormal
EEG Signals Using K-Nearest Neighbor Rulein Support Feature Machine
Ya-Ju Fan
4:30 - 5:00 Data Mining for Anomaly Detection
Philip Chan
5:00 - 5:30 Towards a Dynamic Account of Epigenetic Expression
Tsvi Achler
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