AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:39

Associate secretaries:
William A Harris, Jr, AMS wharris@math.usc.edu

Saturday April 19, 1997, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Molecular Biology, I
Room 104, Social Science Building
Organizers:
Pavel Pevzner, University of Southern California ppevzner@hto.usc.edu
Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California msw@hto.usc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Reading DNA Sequences
  Michael S. Waterman*, University of Southern California
  (921-92-74)
- 9:40 a.m.
  Compound Poisson and Poisson process approximations for occurrences of multiple words, and application to certain stem-loop motifs
  Gesine D. Reinert*, UCLA
  Sophie Schbath,
  (921-60-83)
- 10:20 a.m.
  DNA Computing and the Combinatorics of Polynomial Systems
  J. Maurice Rojas*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  (921-68-165)

Saturday April 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Molecular Biology, II
Room 104, Social Science Building
Organizers:
Pavel Pevzner, University of Southern California ppevzner@hto.usc.edu
Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California msw@hto.usc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Local Rules for Protein Folding on a Triangular Lattice and Generalized Hydrophobicity in the HP Model
  Richa Agarwala, National Institutes of Health
  Serafim Batzoglou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Vlado Dan{\v c}{\'\i}k*, University of Southern California
  Scott E. Decatur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Martin Farach, Rutgers University
  Sridhar Hannenhalli, University of Southern California
  S. Muthukrishnan, Bell Laboratories
  Steven Skiena, SUNY Stony Brook
  (921-68-65)
- 3:40 p.m.
  Evolution-based Sequence Matching
  Paul Cull*, Oregon State University
  James L. Holloway,
  Jeffrey D. Cavener,
  (921-99-107)
- 4:20 p.m.
  A new method for a biological change-point problem: Dynamic programming detection of chimeric 16S rRNA artifacts
  George A Komatsoulis*, University of Southern California
  Michael S Waterman, University of Southern California
  (921-92-135)

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