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August
13, 2003 * Dr. Steve Kercel & Dr. Don Mikulecky
"Why do people behave religiously?"
The Center for the Study of
Biological Complexity
of VCU Life Sciences invites you to join the students of the
Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute (BBSI) for the following
seminars:
August 7, 2003 *Paul Fawcett
1st Annual BBSI Closing Symposium:
Putting microarrays to work: Exploring host responses
to an intracellular bacterial pathogen
August 26, 2003 * Dr. Ankur Teredesai
"Birds of a Feather, Flock Together; Or do they?"
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Thursday, August 7, 2003||
Paul Fawcett
Virginia Commonwealth University
1st Annual BBSI Closing Symposium:
Putting microarrays to work: Exploring host responses
to an intracellular bacterial pathogen
Thursday, August 7, 2003 9:15 am - 3:45 pm
Engineering Room, 301
Funded by: The National Science Foundation
The National Institutes of Health
Sponsored by: VCU Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
VCU Biomedical Engineering
Supported by: VCU Life Sciences
School of Engineering
School of Medicine
College of Humanities and Sciences
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Wednesday, August 13, 2003||
Stephen W. Kercel, Ph.D. & Don Mikulecky, Ph.D.
"Why Some People Behave Religiously?"
Wedensday August 13, 2003
10:30-11:15
New England Institute Second International Conference
"Why Some People Behave Religiously"
Stephen W. Kercel, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Dept of Phsychology
University of England and NEI
Don Mikulecky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow in the Center for the Study of Biological
Complexity
Virginia Commonwealth University
About the Talk
The objective of complexity theory is to bring
all knowledge under a common umbrella. In this work we set out to show
that it is possible to deal with religion and science in a common framework
by using Rosen's approach to complexity. Previous attempts worked from
within one of the frameworks. In this work we step outside both and show
that by doing so we can combine them in a larger model. The larger model
is not computable and self-referential. It is this impredicativity that
science discarded that, in fact, is the key to having a common approach
to both science and religion as belief structures.
Dr. Mikulecky has posted his talk on his website,
where you may also download a powerpoint
version.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003||
Dr. Ankur Teredesai
"Birds of a Feather, Flock Together; Or do they?"
Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - 2:30pm
OHPCC Conference Room - B1N3OQ
Bldg. 38A (Lister Hill Center)
Dr. Ankur Teredesai
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
http://www.cs.rit.edu/~amt
Abstract:
Traditional pattern recognition and data mining
methods require fixed computational power, memory usage and preprocessing
of data. The major challenges ahead: scalability and lack of adaptation
in newer domains consisting of data streams viz., text and the Web. The
Data Mining Research Group at RIT focuses on active algorithms for pattern
recognition and data mining. We highlight the need for techniques to be
adaptive and scalable.
In this presentation I will first illustrate a
novel decision tree adaptation called common node decision trees for improved
mining of web logs. I will then introduce the issues we face such as stemming
and co-training when we attempt to combine image and text mining in one
framework. I would like to invite your views and discuss the hazards of
such combinations within the biomedical text domain. To conclude the presentation
I'll provide an overview of our ongoing projects.
Virginia Commonwealth University
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