IEEE CIBCB 2009 @ Nashville, TN, USA

IEEE CIBCB 2009
2009 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
March 30-April 2, Nashville, TN, USA

This symposium will bring together top researchers, practitioners,
and students from around the world to discuss the latest advances in
the field of Computational Intelligence and its application to real world
problems in biology. Computational Intelligence includes artificial
neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary algorithms, and other emerging
techniques. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: gene
expression array analysis, structure prediction and folding, drug
design, molecular sequence alignment and analysis, metabolic
pathway analysis, medical imaging and pattern recognition, analysis
of large biological data sets, and a variety of other topics. The use of
computational intelligence must play a substantial role in submitted
papers. Submissions will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings.

Post-doc position in the area of optimization applied to bioinformatics @ Orsay, France.

1 Post-doc position is open in the area of optimization applied to
bioinformatics in Orsay, France.

Context:
Optimization and search methods for combinatorial or mixed discrete-
continuous problems are reaching a mature state that allows users to
tackle real-world problems in an efficient way. However, both exact
methods (e.g. Constraint Programming) and heuristic and meta-heuristic
approaches (e.g. Evolutionary Algorithms) have to face the critical
issue of parameter tuning, that remains problem- and even instance-
dependent, and requires past experience of the algorithm being used.

The selected candidate will reinforce the Adaptive Combinatorial
Search project, whose objective is to set up automatic tuning methods
for search algorithms in e-science, allowing scientists who have
little knowledge of the search technique itself to nevertheless solve
their optimization problem without the need for some “optimization
engineer”.
Relying on Machine Learning and statistical techniques, the project
addresses both off-line and on-line tuning issues, at the problem
level as well as at the instance level. The target algorithms are
Constraint Programming, building on the expertise of the Constraint
Reasoning Group at MSR, and meta-heuristics, with a particular
emphasis on Evolutionary Algorithms, one research area of the TAO
project-team at INRIA Futurs.

The position will be located at the new INRIA-Microsoft Joint lab in
Orsay, France (http://www.msr-inria.inria.fr

).

Suitable Profiles:
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Post-doc candidates *must have completed their PhD*. Ideal candidates
should have a strong experience in bio-informatics, search, and
Machine Learning.
* Competencies: Computational Biology, Constraint Programming, Meta-
heuristics, Machine Learning.
* Technical skills: C, C++, C#, Matlab.
* Additional competencies: French.

Salary:
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Standard French public Post-doc package.
Contact:
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Send full CV and at least two letters of reference to ‘youssefh at
microsoft dot com’.

ALENEX 2009 @ New York

11th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments
ALENEX 2009 – CALL FOR PAPERS
January 3, 2009
New York City, New York
http://www.siam.org/meetings/alenex09/

SDM’09 @ Nevada, USA

SDM’09: THE NINTH SIAM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA MINING
John Ascuaga’s Nugget, Sparks (Reno-Sparks-Tahoe area), Nevada, USA
April 30 – May 2, 2009
URL: http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm09

Important Dates:

Two PhD student positions are available in bioinformatics at the University of Bergen (Department of Informatics).

More information can be found at

http://www.jobbnorge.no/visstilling2.aspx?stillid=48212&lang=EN

Note that applications should be submitted through online web forms linked from the above page.

Application deadline: June 10th 2008.

Courtesy:

Inge Jonassen, PhD
Department of Informatics and
Computational Biology Unit, BCCS
University of Bergen
HiB
No5020 Bergen
Norway
email: inge.jonassen@ii.uib.no

and

Prash [at] bioclues [dot] org
Denmark
www.bioclues.org

Mini EURO @ Rome, Italy

Mini EURO conference on
Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine
September 15-17, 2008
CNR,Rome, Italy
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 30, 2008
Workshop Website:
http://www.iasi.cnr.it/iasi/RomeConference/index.php

LeGo-08 @ Antwerp, Belgium

LeGo-08
From Local Patterns to Global Models
ECML/PKDD-08 Workshop
15 September 2008, Antwerp, Belgium
http://www.ke.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/events/LeGo-08/

CIBB 2008 @ Salerno, Italy

CIBB 2008

FIFTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS

IIASS – Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy)

3-4 October, 2008

Conference Website: http://cibb08.disi.unige.it/

CTIC 2008 @ POITIERS – FRANCE

CTIC’2008
First Workshop on
Computational Topology in Image Context
June 16-17, 2008
POITIERS – FRANCE
http://ctic.sic.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/

ISIB 2008 @ Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany

International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics
5th annual meeting
20th to 22nd August 2008
Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
http://www.imbio.de/conference/