Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

University of Minnesota

400 Lind Hall

207 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

Web: http://www.ima.umn.edu | Email: staff@ima.umn.edu | Telephone: (612) 624-6066 | Fax: (612) 626-7370
Schedules available at http://www.ima.umn.edu/happening

Sunday, February 12, 2012

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Monday, February 13, 2012

9:00am-9:45am	Coffee and Registration	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
9:45am-10:00am	Welcome and Introduction	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:00am-11:00am	Yaniv Erlich, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Tutorial: Cost effective sequencing of rare genetic variations	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
11:00am-11:15am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
11:15am-12:15pm	Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan Tutorial: Sparse signal recovery	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
12:15pm-2:00pm	Lunch		W2.13-17.12
2:00pm-3:00pm	Noam Shental, Open University of Israel Identification of rare alleles and their carriers using compressed se(que)nsing	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:00pm-3:15pm	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
3:15pm-3:45pm	Dina Esposito, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Mining Rare Human Variations using Combinatorial Pooling	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:45pm-4:45pm	Sharon Aviran, University of California, Berkeley RNA Structure Characterization from High-Throughput Chemical Mapping Experiments	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
4:45pm-5:30pm	Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign RUMP session	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
6:30pm-8:00pm	Social Hour at the Campus Club 403 Coffman Memorial Union Map	Campus Club	W2.13-17.12

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
9:00am-10:00am	Atri Rudra, University at Buffalo (SUNY) Tutorial: Group Testing and Coding Theory	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:00am-10:15am	Group Photo	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:15am-11:15am	Natasha Przulj, Imperial College London Network topology as a source of biological information	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
11:15am-11:30am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
11:30am-12:30pm	Vyacheslav V. Rykov, University of Nebraska Superimposed Codes and Designs for Group Testing Models	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
12:30pm-2:00pm	Lunch		W2.13-17.12
2:00pm-3:00pm	Alex Samorodnitsky, Hebrew University Testing Boolean functions	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:00pm-3:15pm	Coffee Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
3:15pm-3:45pm	Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside Combinatorial Pooling Enables Selective Sequencing of the Barley Gene Space	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:45pm-4:15pm	Zoltan Furedi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) Superimposed codes	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
4:15pm-5:30pm	Poster Session and Reception	Lind Hall 400	W2.13-17.12
	Christian Deppe, Universität Bielefeld:   Poster - Finding one of m defective elements
	Ding-Zhu Du, University of Texas:   Poster - Approximation for Nonunique Probe Selection
	Julio Duarte, University of Minnesota:   Poster - Hierarchical topological network analysis of anatomical human brain connectivity and differences related to sex and kinship.
	Mikhail B Malyutov, Northeastern University:   Poster - Upgraded Separate Testing of Inputs in Compressive Sensing

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
9:00am-10:00am	Nicolas Thierry-Mieg, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Shifted Transversal Design Smart-pooling: increasing sensitivity, specificity and efficiency in high-throughput biology	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:00am-10:15am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
10:15am-11:15am	Sriram Sankararaman, Harvard Medical School Genomic Privacy and the Limits of Individual Detection in a Pool	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
11:15am-11:30am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
11:30am-12:00pm	David Golan, Tel Aviv University Weighted Pooling - Simple and Effective Techniques for Pooled High Throughput Sequencing Design	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
12:00pm-2:00pm	Lunch		W2.13-17.12
2:00pm-3:00pm	Ferdinando Cicalese, Università di Salerno Competitive Testing for Evaluating Priced Functions	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:00pm-3:15pm	Coffee Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
3:15pm-3:45pm	Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Probabilistic and combinatorial models for quantized group testing	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:45pm-4:15pm	Mahdi Cheraghchi, Carnegie Mellon University Improved Constructions for Non-adaptive Threshold Group Testing	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break		W2.13-17.12
4:30pm-5:30pm	Yaniv Erlich, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research RUMP session	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
9:00am-10:00am	David P. Woodruff, IBM Research Division Tutorial: The Data Stream Model	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:00am-10:15am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
10:15am-11:15am	Jelani Nelson, Princeton University Sparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
11:15am-11:30am	Break		W2.13-17.12
11:30am-12:30pm	Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan University Length Reduction via Polynomials	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
12:30pm-2:00pm	Lunch		W2.13-17.12
2:00pm-3:00pm	Annalisa De Bonis, Università di Salerno A Group Testing Approach to Corruption Localizing Hashing	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:00pm-3:15pm	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
3:15pm-3:45pm	Mikhail B Malyutov, Northeastern University Greedy Separate Testing Sparse Inputs	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
3:45pm-4:15pm	Sylvie Ricard-Blum, Université Claude-Bernard (Lyon I) A dynamic and quantitative protein interaction network regulating angiogenesis	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
4:15pm-4:30pm	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
4:30pm-5:30pm	Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University RUMP session	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12

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Friday, February 17, 2012

8:30am-9:00am	Coffee	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
9:00am-10:00am	Anna Gal, University of Texas at Austin Streaming algorithms for approximating the length of the longest increasing subsequence	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
10:00am-10:15am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
10:15am-11:15am	Alexander Schliep, Rutgers University From screening clone libraries to detecting biological agents	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12
11:15am-11:30am	Break	Keller Hall 3-176	W2.13-17.12
11:30am-12:30pm	Or Zuk, Broad Institute Reconstruction of bacterial communities using sparse representation	Keller Hall 3-180	W2.13-17.12

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Saturday, February 18, 2012

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