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Subject: SMB Digest v14i21
SMB Digest May 22, 2014 Volume 14 Issue 21
ISSN 1086-6566
Editor: Richard Schugart richard(dot)schugart(at)gmail(dot)com
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Issue's Topics:
Seminar: Contrast Mining Aided?, May 26, UT, Sydney
Conference: Algorithms for Comp Biol, Jul 1-3, Tarragona, Spain
Conference: Thermodynamics, May 20-22, 2015, Nancy, France
Post-doc: Stat Genomics & Bioinformatics, U Vermont
Post-docs: Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory, York U, Canada
Post-doc: Comp Biol & Infectious Diseases, UNSW, Australia
Post-doc: Modeling of Randomness & Uncertainty..., U Manchester
SMBnet Reminders
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From: Advanced Analytics <AdvancedAnalytics@uts.edu.au>
Date: May 19, 2014 1:37:53 AM
Subject: Seminar: Contrast Mining Aided?, May 26, UT, Sydney
AAi Seminar: Contrast Mining Aided Problem Solving and Data Analytics:
Successes and Potential
Speaker: Professor Guozhu Dong, Knoesis Center and Department of CSE,
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Date: Monday 26 May 2014
Time: 1.30pm to 2.30pm
Location: Blackfriars Campus, Room CC05.GD.03
Seminar Chairman: Associate Professor Jinyan Li, Seminar Coordinator,
AAI ? Jinyan.Li@uts.edu.au
Abstract:
Contrast data mining is about (a) the mining of patterns and models that
characterize the differences between contrasting data sets of different
classes/conditions, and (b) the use of the mined results to solve
challenging problems (in the area of contrast mining assisted problem
solving and data analytics). Since the pioneering work on emerging
pattern mining in 1999 by Dong and Li, a significant body of results on
contrast mining have been published, including a book in 2012. In this
talk Professor Dong will focus on the successes and potential of
contrast mining assisted problem solving. He will provide an overview of
results on contrast pattern based classification, contrast pattern based
outlier detection, and contrast pattern based gene ranking for complex
diseases, including example successes in cancer analysis, molecular
compound selection, toxicity analysis, blog analysis, and city
environment analysis for crime prevention. He will also give detailed
discussion on recent advances on contrast pattern based clustering and
contrast pattern aided regression, together with discussion on their
exciting performance in experiments. Professor Dong believes that
contrast mining assisted problem solving and data analytics have big
potential, since they offer powerful concepts and tools to effectively
handle challenges associated with multiple complex attribute/variable
relationships in high dimensional data.
Bio:
Guozhu Dong is a full professor at Wright State University. He earned a
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. His
main research interests are data mining, data science, bioinformatics,
and databases. He has published over 150 articles and two books entitled
"Sequence Data Mining" and "Contrast Data Mining," and he holds 4 US
patents. He is widely known for his pioneering work on contrast/emerging
pattern mining and applications, and for his work on first-order
maintenance of recursive and transitive closure views. His papers have
received 5400+ citations (scholar.google.com) and his h-index is 35. He
is a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from the 2005 IEEE ICDM and the
2014 PAKDD, and a recipient of the Research Excellence Award at College
of CECS of WSU. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM.
Overview to AAI seminar series
The Advanced Analytics Seminar Series presents the latest theoretical
advancement and empirical experience in a broad range of
interdisciplinary and business-oriented analytics fields. It covers
topics related to data mining, machine learning, statistics,
bioinformatics, behavior informatics, marketing analytics and multimedia
analytics. It also provides a platform for the showcase of commercial
products in ubiquitous advanced analytics. Speakers are invited from
both academia and industry. It opens regularly on a week day at the
garden-like UTS Blackfriars Campus. You are warmly welcome to attend
this seminar series.
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From: GRLMC <grlmc@urv.cat>
Date: May 18, 2014 4:03:27 AM
Subject: Conference: Algorithms for Comp Biol, Jul 1-3, Tarragona, Spain
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
AlCoB 2014
Tarragona, Spain
July 1-3, 2014
http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/
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From: Maggy Aulon <maggy.aulon@univ-lorraine.fr>
Date: May 20, 2014 10:30:35 AM
Subject: Conference: Thermodynamics, May 20-22, 2015, Nancy, France
The Joint European Thermodynamics Conference 2015 will take place in
Nancy just about a year from now (May 20-22, 2015).
Be sure to note these dates in your agenda.
The website is now open (however not complete) and you are in invited to
pay it a visit at:
http://jetc2015.event.univ-lorraine.fr
It will be updated with an outline of the program and the composition of
the different committees, so please visit it regularly.
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From: dwlidwli@gmail.com <dwlidwli@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2014 9:40:56 PM
Subject: Post-doc: Stat Genomics & Bioinformatics, U Vermont
Postdoctoral Position
Statistical Genomics and Bioinformatics
We are looking for a postdoc with research background in statistical
genetics, biostatistics, bioinformatics or related computational area.
The applicant should have demonstration of research achievements. The
ideal candidate may have experiences in human genome, epigenome or
related research using SNP/CNV array or next-gen sequencing. This
position is available immediately. Contact Email: dawei.li [at] uvm.edu.
University of Vermont, U.S.
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From: Seyed Moghadas <seyed.moghadas@gmail.com>
Date: May 19, 2014 10:23:05 PM
Subject: Post-docs: Agent-Based Modelling Laboratory, York U, Canada
1) Postdoctoral position: Genome Annotation and Disease Risk Prediction
http://abm-lab.yorku.ca/files/JobPosting%202014.pdf
2) Postdoctoral position: Computational Modelling of Disease Epidemics
http://abm-lab.yorku.ca/files/JobPosting2%202014.pdf
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From: Fabio Luciani <luciani@unsw.edu.au>
Date: May 21, 2014 9:45:52 PM
Subject: Post-doc: Comp Biol & Infectious Diseases, UNSW, Australia
Postdoc-PhD position - Computational Biology and Infectious Diseases
The Evolutionary Dynamics in Infectious Diseases Group at the University
of New South Wales is looking for PhD students and postdoc to work on
research projects in the area of bioinformatics / computational biology
as well as virology/ immunology that are aimed at studying viral
evolution and the role of host immune response. The research we offer
will be interdisciplinary projects and will involve high- throughput
data, such as next-generation sequencing.
Computational projects are suited to students with a strong background
in quantitative disciplines such as Bioinformatics, Computer Science,
Physics, Mathematics or similar. There is also possibility to perform
wet lab research.
Successful applicants will join a team of researchers in the
Inflammation and Infection Research Centre, which hosts > 70 students
and researchers in various field of Medical Sciences. There is also a
great opportunity to interact with researchers involved in wet-lab
activities.
This research done in collaboration with experimental research groups
both in Australia and overseas. Additional information on the
Computational Biology Group?s research interests are available at:
http://medicalsciences.med.unsw.edu.au/research/groups/inflammation-and-infection-research/computational-biology-and-bioinformatics
https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-fabio-luciani
Please include a cover letter and CV that provide details about research
interests, education, employment history (if any), skills.
Post-graduate scholarships are available to support tuition and living
expenses for domestic (Australian Postgraduate Award APA) and overseas
PhD students to study in Australia. More information on the postgraduate
research scholarships is available at:
http://research.unsw.edu.au/postgraduate-research-scholarships
Also, we will encourage and support applications for prestigious
Australian Government postgraduate scholarships.
Postdoc applications will be supported within the VC scheme, details can
be found at
https://research.unsw.edu.au/vice-chancellor?s-postdoctoral-research-fellowship
Closing date is July 4th.
Interested applicants should contact Dr Fabio Luciani:
luciani@unsw.edu.au.
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From: Oliver Jensen <oliver.jensen@manchester.ac.uk>
Date: May 22, 2014 5:54:35 AM
Subject: Post-doc: Modeling of Randomness & Uncertainty..., U Manchester
Postdoctoral position, University of Manchester, UK
Applications are invited for a postdoc in complex systems, beginning
July 1st 2014, or as soon as possible after this date.
The position is in the Complex Systems and Statistical Physics group at
the University of Manchester and is for up to two years. We are looking
for an outstanding and ambitious theoretical or computational physicist,
or applied mathematician with a background in either non-equilibrium
statistical physics, multi-scale modelling, stochastic processes or
complex systems. The successful applicant will work on an
interdisciplinary project on the modeling of randomness and uncertainty
in epidemiology and physiology.
Please see https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7919
for details. The closing date is 11 June 2014.
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