http://mbmc.info/index.php/2015-workshop/

December 3-4, 2015,  University of Southern California, Los Angeles         

Organizers:  Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California and Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada

In conjunction with the 2015 launch of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications ( http://www.comsoc.org/tmbmc ) and the IEEE Globecom Conference in San Diego (December 6-10, 2015), we are holding a workshop on  Communications, Inference, and Computing in Molecular and Biological Systems .  It will be a 1 ½ day event between Thursday and Friday, December 3-4, 2015.  The workshop will be held on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles with easy access to Los Angeles International Airport, train and metro service.

Confirmed Speakers:

1. Behnaam Aazhang Rice University – signal processing methods for neuroscience
2. Todd Coleman UCSD – neural inference/brain-machine interfaces
3. Elisa Franco UC Riverside – bio-molecular feedback, biochemical oscillators
4. Scott Fraser USC – quantitative biology/compressed sensing for translational imaging
5. Andrea Goldsmith Stanford – directed information & neuroscience; DNA microarray analysis
6. Olgica Milenkovic UIUC – bioinformatics & coding theory
7. Andrew Mugler Purdue – biological networks, Quantitative systems biology
8. Richard Murray CalTech – bio-molecular feedback systems
9. Marc Riedel U of Minnesota – biological circuits
10. Robert Schober University of Erlangen-Nurnberg  -- molecular communication
11. Haris Vikalo UT Austin – DNA sequencing/low-rank methods for bio-informatics
12. Mihaela van der Schaar UCLA – bacterial self-organization

We will also have poster sessions for contributed posters. All poster presenters must submit a two page abstract by November 6, 2015, and presenters will be selected on the basis of the abstract.  Early submission will likely result in early acceptance of the poster.  Poster abstracts should be submitted to Prof. Andrew Eckford ( [email protected] ).  All poster presenters will have the opportunity to give a lightning overview of their poster.  We will have a reception and meals (lunch,breakfast) and coffee breaks during the workshop.  A block of rooms will be held at the Radisson Hotel, walking distance to the Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering Department.  For more information, look to  http://mbmc.info/index.php/2015-workshop/

Important dates

November 6, 2015 – poster abstract submission

November 13, 2015 --  early registration deadline at mbmc.info ($100 students, $150 non-students)

December 3, 2015 -- late registration at mbmc.info ($150 students, $200 non-students)

December 3-4, 2015 --  Workshop

If you have any questions regarding logistics, please contact Ms. Christina Tang-Bernas   [email protected]

If you have any questions regarding the technical program, please contact Prof. Urbashi Mitra  [email protected]

This workshop has received financial support from the USC Provost’s Office, the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Information Theory Society.