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Events for December 04, 2007
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Tue, Dec 04, 2007
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 14, 2007. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online.http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2008
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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CS Colloquia: Aspects of Information Fusion and Computational Discovery for Bioinformatics
Tue, Dec 04, 2007 @ 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Title: Aspects of Information Fusion and Computational Discovery for BioinformaticsSpeaker: Dr. Raj Acharya (Penn State University)ABSTRACT:
Information fusion involves combining information from several different
sources to make informed decisions. It exploits the notion that 'the fused
whole is more than the sum of its parts'. The field of bioinformatics is
replete with multiple information sources such as microarray data, sequence
data, conservation information, textual literature, and multiple data banks.
This provides an excellent opportunity to exploit the techniques of
information fusion in the field of bioinformatics.In this talk, we will present information fusion algorithms for computational
discovery in bioinformatics.BIO:
Raj Acharya obtained his Ph.D. from the Mayo Graduate School of
Medicine/University of Minnesota in 1984. Since then, he has worked as a
research scientist at the Mayo Clinic and at GE (Thomson)-CGR in Paris,
France. He has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Night Vision Laboratory in
Fort Belvoir in Washington, D.C. and has been a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow at
the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. He is currently the Head of Computer
Science and Engineering Department at Penn State. During his tenure, the CSE
department has been ranked amongst the top 10 CS departments in the country.His main research thrusts are in the general area of bioinformatics and
biocomputing. He is the architect of the PCABC Cancer Bioinformatics
Datawarehouse project. He works on using information fusion techniques for
genomics and proteomics. He is also developing fractal models for the DNA
replication and transcription sites. He is associate editor of IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He is also the
cochair of the IAPR Technical Committee on Pattern Recognition for
Bioinformatics. His research work has been featured among others in
Businessweek, Mathematics Calendar, The Scientist, Diagnostic Imaging,
Biomedical Engineering Newsletter, and Drug Design.Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: CS Colloquia
