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Call For Participation

BIOCOMP'09
The 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology

Date and Location: July 13-16, 2009, Las Vegas, USA
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

This is an invitation to attend the 2009 International Conference on
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP'09. The conference
is composed of a number of sessions/tracks, keynote lectures, invited
lectures, and tutorials. See below for conference schedule/program,
registration information, hotel information, list of sponsors,
and some highlights.


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE/PROGRAM:

The complete schedule/program is available at:
http://www.world-academy-of-science....p09/ws/program
(look for BIOCOMP'09)


REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

To attend the conference, use the following online registration
link:
http://www.world-academy-of-science....s/registration


HOTEL RESERVATION:

BIOCOMP'09 will be held in the Monte Carlo resort, Las Vegas,
Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels). This is
a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
rooms. It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle/taxi
service to and from the airport. This hotel has many recreational
attractions and is within walking distance from most other
attractions. You are to reserve your hotel room directly by
calling Monte Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777.
Make
sure that you mention the Group Code "XWRLD9" (XWRLD9 is the
keyword that the hotel will use to handle the reserved block of
rooms for the Congress). You should reserve your room as soon as
possible since our block is very close to being fully booked.
There
are also many other hotels nearby.


CO-SPONSORS:

ACADEMIC/TECHNICAL Co-Sponsors:
o United States Military Academy, Network Science Center;
o Biomedical Cybernetics Lab., HST of Harvard U. and MIT;
o Argonne's Leadership Computing Facility of Argonne National
Lab.;
o Functional Genomics Lab., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
o Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, U. of Minnesota;
o Intelligent Data Exploration & Analysis Lab., U. of Texas at
Austin;
o Harvard Statistics Department Genomics & Bioinformatics Lab.,
Harvard U.;
o Texas Advanced Computing Center, U. of Texas at Austin;
o Center for the Bioinformatics & Computational Genomics, Georgia
Institute of Technology;
o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Program, George Mason U.;
o Institute of Discrete Mathematics & Geometry, Vienna U. of
Technology, Austria;
o BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Lab., Georgia Institute
of Technology & Emory U.;
o Knowledge Management & Intelligent System Center (KMIS) of
U. of Siegen, Germany;
o National Institute for Health Research;
o Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology, College
of Medicine, U. of Iowa;
o Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow, Russia;
o Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), U. of Iowa;
o SECLAB (U. of Naples Federico II, U. Naples Parthenope, & Second
U. Naples, Italy;
o U. of North Dakota;
o Intelligent Cyberspace Engineeing Lab., ICEL, Texas A&M/Comm,
U.;
o International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine;
o World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies.

OTHER SPONSORS:
o European Commission;
o Supermicro, Inc.
o Salford Systems
o Element CXI, California
o High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano);
o HoIP - Health without Boundaries;
o The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics;
o The UK Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform;
o VMW Solutions Ltd.;
o Scientific Technologies Corporation;
o Hodges' Health
o Bentham Science Publishers
o GridToday


WORLDCOMP'09/BIOCOMP'09 KEYNOTE LECTURES (this is only a small
subset):

o Prof. Brian D. Athey
University of Michigan Medical School, USA; Founding Associate
Director, CCMB; Head, NIH National Center for Integrative
Biomedical
Informatics; Director, Biomedical Informatics Program of Michigan
Institute for Clinical & Health Research; Advisor to Director of
DPCPSI in the office of the Director of the NIH.
Title: TBA

o Prof. Ian Foster
Father of Grid Computing
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Director,
Computation Institute, University of Chicago and
Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA
Title: Grid Computing

o Dr. K. Eric Drexler
Father of Nanotechnology
Chief Technical Advisor, Nanorex
Title: Advanced Nanotechnology: Advanced Computing on the Critical
Path

o Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
Fellow, IEEE; Fellow ACM
Charles Lee Powell Chair in Engineering; Professor of EE, CE, CS;
Executive Director of USC-Infosys Center for Advanced Software
Technologies (CAST); University of Southern California, USA
Title: Algorithm Design for Reconfigurable Computing Systems

o Dr. Jose L. Munoz
Deputy Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of
Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) and NSF/ICI senior advisor. Former
Director
of Simulation & CS Office at the National Nuclear Security Adm.'s
Advanced Simulation & Computing (ASCI) program.
Title: It's Like Deja-Vu All over Again ... Again

o Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President,
SourceTrace
Systems, Inc.
Title: e-Services Everywhere

o Dr. Rahul Razdan
CEO, Raztech LLC
Title: Future Directions in Reconfigurable Computing

o Prof. P. M. A. Sloot
Director of the Institute for Informatics
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Editor-in-Chief, Future Generation Computer Systems
Title: *** and the City - Modelling HIV from Molecule to Man
and
Title: Modeling Dynamic Systems with Cellular Automata

o Prof. Michael Bank
Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Inventor of Frequency Bank Signal (FBS).
Title: Perception Redundancy Theory and Technical Compression
Systems
and
Title: The Doppler Effect: Limiting Values in OFDMA Cellular
Systems


PLANNED TUTORIALS (this is a partial list):
Tutorial attendance is free to registered attendees of worldcomp/
biocomp
and all its associated conferences (most are 3 hours long):

o Robust Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Computing
Systems:
Models and Methods
Prof. H. J. Siegel
Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science,
Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC),
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

o Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), SourceTrace Systems, USA;
Consultant
for Fortune-100 companies; Formerly, Chief Architect of Hewlett-
Packard's
Web Services Mediation Platform, USA

o Inverse Problems in Imaging Systems and Computer Vision: From
Deterministic Regularization to Probabilistic Bayesian Approaches
Prof. Ali Mohammad-Djafari
Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique
(CNRS), France

o A Complete Revolution in Software Engineering Based on Complexity
Science
Jay Xiong
International Software Automation, Inc. (currently being
reorganized), USA
ISA Shanghai, Ltd., Shanghai, P. R. China

o Data Mining With Sensitivity to Rare Events and Class Imbalance
Prof. Nitesh V. Chawla
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

o State of the Art in Sensor Networking
Prof. Anura P. Jayasumana
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

o Introduction to Digital Forensics Research
Dr. Robert F. Erbacher
Utah State University, Utah, USA

o Visualization for the Beginner, the Researcher, the Advanced
Architect and Whoever Else ...
Dr. Brian J. d'Auriol
Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea

o Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching
Online
Dr. Michael (Mike) L. Nelson
School of Technology Graduate Program Director
Hodges University, Ft Myers, Florida, USA

o Teaching Java Through Alice and Greenfoot
Dr. Peter DePasquale* and Dr. Mark Lewis**
*The College of New Jersey, USA & **Trinity University, USA

o Emerging Human-Web Interaction Research
Dr. Peter Geczy
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(AIST), Japan

o Cryptographic Features and Applications: Java (C)
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

o A Tour of Advanced Data Mining Methodologies
Dr. Dan Steinberg
President and CEO of Salford Systems, Inc.

o Autonomous Machine Learning
Prof. Asim Roy
Arizona State University, Arizona, USA

o Web Services in ASP.NET AJAX
Khanna Samratvivekanand Omprakash
Institute of Science & Technology for Advanced Studies and
Research(ISTAR), Charotar Vidya Mandal (CVM), Sardar Patel
University, V.V.Nagar, India