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The development and applications of microarray technology give rise to many problems that need to be addressed by the collective knowledge and skills of mathematicians and biologists. This program aims to study the many new statistical methods tailored to microarrays developed in the last few years. Its main objective is to bring together a group of leading researchers in microarrays to discuss their current work and to exchange ideas among themselves as well as with local researchers on the future statistical challenges for microarrays.
In addition to seminars and informal discussions, the program will consist of a tutorial on background material and a workshop at research level. The tutorial will be held 2-6 January 2004, and workshops will run 7-31 January 2004.
Registration forms for participation in the tutorial or workshop are available at www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/microarray/. Completed forms should be received by the Institute at least one month before commencement of each activity. Registration is free of charge. Institute membership is not required for participation.
The Organising Committee comprises Terry Speed (California, Berkeley, and Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) (Chair), Ming-Ying Leung (Texas, El Paso) (Co-chair) (mleung@utep.edu), Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore) (Co-chair) (matzlx@nus.edu.sg), Anthony Kuk (National University of Singapore), Art Owen (Stanford), Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College) and Wing Hung Wong (Harvard).
The purpose is to bring together people who work on innovative developments and applications in statistics, physics, and bioinformatics. The program aims to encourage cross-fertilisation between workers in rather different developments and also to challenge the theoretical capacity of these methods by exposing them to statistical and bioinformatical applications.
The program will begin with a tutorial session (8-12 March 2004), in which leading researchers will introduce fundamental and advanced concepts in Monte Carlo methods, such as Markov chain and Metropolis sampling, efficient sampling algorithms, extended ensemble methods and perfect sampling (Propp-Wilson algorithm). The program will end with a workshop (22-26 March 2004), during which latest research results will be presented.
Registration forms for participation in the tutorial or workshop are available at www.ims.nus.edu.sg/Programs/mcmc/. Completed forms should be received by the Institute at least one month before commencement of each activity. Registration is free of charge. Institute membership is not required for participation.
The Organising Committee for this meeting is chaired by Wilfrid Kendall (Warwick) (w.s.kendall@warwick.ac.uk), and Faming Liang (Texas A&M, and National University of Singapore) (fliang@stat.tamu.edu) and Jian-Sheng Wang (National University of Singapore) (cscwjs@nus.edu.sg) are the Co-chairs.
The program addresses systems with a very large number of interacting parts in which the interactions are non-linear, in the sense that the behaviour of the system cannot be predicted simply by understanding the behaviour of the component parts. The mathematical and statistical foundations of this program include stochastic modelling and simulation and analysis of massive data sets, as well as dynamical systems, network and graph theory, optimisation, control, design of computer and physical experiments, and statistical visualisation.
The fall quarter has been devoted to genomics.
The winter quarter will be devoted to communications networks and related models for power systems. The problems associated with designing, engineering, and managing such rapidly evolving systems have shaped much of networking research in the past and are likely to play an even more important role in the future as the scale of the problems addressed extend well beyond what has previously been considered.
The winter program will begin with a short course on "The Internet for Mathematicians" (7-9 January 2004). Steven H Strogatz will open the program with a public lecture entitled "Sync: the Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order." The course is immediately followed by a one-day tutorial "Measurement, Modelling and Analysis of the Internet" (11 January 2004). The winter quarter will include two other workshops: "Robustness in Complex Systems" (9-13 February 2004), and "Control and Pricing in Communication and Power Networks" (8-13 March). Each workshop will be preceded by a one-day tutorial.
The spring quarter is concerned with advanced mathematical, statistical and computational methods in finance and econometrics. It contains three workshops: "Risk Management and Model Specifications Issues in Finance" (12-16 April 2004), "Model Implementation, Algorithms and Software Issues" (3-7 May 2004) and "Financial Data Analysis and Applications" (24-28 May 2004). Moreover, it has one "hot topics" workshop, unrelated to the annual theme, entitled "Compatible Spatial Discretisations for Partial Differential Equations" (11-15 May 2004).
To request an invitation for one of the workshops, tutorials or short courses, point to www.ima.umn.edu/docs/reg_form1.html.
Questions? Write to staff@ima.umn.edu. We hope to see you here.
--- Tom Kurtz