A reminder about this workshop in Cambridge.
Please note the closing date for applications to participate.
Mike Titterington.
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> Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
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> High Dimensional Statistics in Biology
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> (31 March to 4 April 2008)
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> in association with the Newton Institute programme entitled
> Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data
> (7 January to 27 June 2008)
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> Workshop Organisers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Ewan Birney (EBI),
> Wolfgang Huber (EBI) and Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute)
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> Theme of Workshop: The study of biological systems has been
> revolutionized by the advent of large scale systematic data gathering.
> Led by the Human Genome project, but extending across many biological
> disciplines, an increasing number of large and complex datasets has
> been developed which inform our biological understanding of both the
> normal workings of organisms in biology and processes which cause
> disease.
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> The analysis of these datasets ,which has become an increasingly
> important part of biology, poses a number of interesting statistical
> problems, largely driven by the complex inter-relationships between
> measurements .The size and complexity of these datasets make even
> adaptation of existing statistical techniques to biological problems
> novel . In some cases, the development of entirely new statistical
> methods is necessary. Methods developed and developing for high
> dimensional (large p) and possibly small sample size (small n)
> inference seem particularly germane. So do methods such as FDR for
> simultaneously testing many hypotheses.
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> In this workshop we aim to provide a collegial, inter disciplinary
> group of both statisticians and biologists to exchanges ideas and
> challenges at the Newton Institute in Cambridge UK. Drawing on both
> nearby expertise at the Hinxton Campus (the EBI and the Sanger
> Institute) and worldwide expertise in statistics the workshop will
> involve short talks from both biologists and statisticians and less
> structured, collaboration based time.
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> Invited Speakers: R Aebersold (ETH, Zurich), J Ahringer (Cambridge),
> P Bertone (EBI, Cambridge), E Birney (EBI, Cambridge), S Brunak
> (Denmark), ML Bulyk (Harvard), G Crawford (Duke), M Dermitzakis
> (Sanger, Cambridge), R Durbin (Sanger, Cambridge), MB Eisen,
> (Berkeley), J Ellenberg (EMBL), A Enright (Sanger, Cambridge), A
> Fraser (Sanger, Cambridge), E Furlong (EMBL), R Gentleman (Harvard), W
> Huber (EBI, Cambridge), M Hurles (Sanger, Cambridge), T Hyman (MPI,
> Dresden), D Koller (Stanford), N Luscombe (EBI, Cambridge), EM
> Marcotte (Texas at Austin), E Margulies (NHGRI), L Pachter (UCB), E
> Segal (Weizmann), M Snyder (Yale), T Speed (UCB), H Stunnenberg
> (NCMLS), S Tavare (Cambridge), WH Wong (Stanford).
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> Further Information and Application Forms are available from the WWW at:
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> <http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/schw02.html>
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> Closing Date for the receipt of applications is 30 November 2007
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