Hauptseminar: Darwins 200th Birthday and Interdisciplinary Research Skills
Alexandros Stamatakis
I would like to announce the following main seminar (Hauptseminar) for the summer term 2009:
In summer we will organize an interdisciplinary main seminar (Hauptseminar) with Prof. Gert Wörheide, a Paleontologist
at the LMU entitled:
"Biological and Computational Aspects of Phylogenetic Inference and Implications for the Evolution of Life on Earth"
to celebrate Darwins 200th birthday a bit.
The seminar is open to Computer Science, Bioinformatics, and Biology students and the main goal is for Biologists and
Computer Scientists to learn to talk to each other, which is not always an easy endeavor.
The seminar will take place at the Museum of Paleontology in Munich, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10. Course Time: Mondays from
18:00-20:00 (Start 20.04.2009 End 20.07.2009) and thereafter we will be going straight for a beer nearby.
Note that you don't necessarily require prior Bioinformatics knowledge. This might hopefully also be interesting for
students of mathematics that have chosen computer science as secondary subject (Nebenfach).
Topics for CS and Bioinformatics Students:
Models:
* Maximum Likelihood
* Bayesian Inference
* Maximum Parsimony
Algorithms:
* ML and Bayesian Search Algorithms
* Computation of topological distances
* Computation of consensus tree
* Inference of Confidence Values
Parallel Computing:
* Parallelization of ML & MP
* Parallelization of Bayesian Methods
* Computer Architectures for Phylogenetic Inference
So there should be something interesting in there for everybody, depending on whether you like maths,
algorithms, or parallel computing best.
All the best,
Alexis
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Dr. Alexandros Stamatakis, Junior Research Group Leader
The Exelixis Lab
Bioinformatics Unit (I12)
Department of Computer Science
Technische Universität München
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