Dear all,
Please join us for the Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) this
Wednesday, February 29 from 12.00 - 1.30 pm in CGIS Knafel Room 354. Hanspeter
Pfister <http://gvi.seas.harvard.edu/pfister>, Gordon McKay Professor of
Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Harvard University, will give a presentation entitled "Visual Computing in
Biology". As always, a light lunch will be provided.
Abstract:
Many areas in science are experiencing a flood of data
arising in part
from the development of instruments that acquire information on an
unprecedented scale. This is particularly true in biology, where huge
amounts of heterogeneous data are acquired from microarrays, scanners,
microscopes, and various other instruments. Visual computing tools are
essential to gain insights into this data by combining computational
analysis with the power of the human perceptual and cognitive system and
enabling data exploration through interactive visualizations. In this talk
I will present some of my group's work in visual computing and give an
overview of several successful visualization projects in the areas of
genomics and systems biology. I then will focus on our work on visual
computing in Connectomics, a new field in neuroscience that aims to apply
biology and computer science to the grand challenge of determining the
detailed neural circuitry of the brain.
An up-to-date schedule for the workshop is available at
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/1208.
Best,
Konstantin
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Konstantin Kashin
Ph.D. Student in Government
Harvard University
Mobile: 978-844-0538
E-mail: kkashin(a)fas.harvard.edu
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