9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:30 am
Opening Remarks
Roberto Tamassia, James A. and Julie N. Brown Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department, Brown University
Sohini Ramachandran, Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology; Professor of Computer Science; and Director of the Data Science Institute, Brown University
10:40 am
Keynote: A John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture
Craig Venter, CEO of Celera Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute; Winner of the National Medal of Science
Introduction by Michael Waterman, Professor of Biology, Mathematics and Computer Science, emeritus; Endowed Associates Chair in Biological Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Southern California
11:30 am
Sweatbox Session with Craig Venter
11:55 am
Keynote: A John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture
"21st Century Genomics: Minimizer-Space Computation"
Bonnie Berger, Simons Professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Introduction by Ritambhara Singh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science, Brown University
12:25 pm
Audience Q&A Session
12:35 pm
Lunch Buffet
1:15 pm
Presentation by
Provost Francis J. Doyle
1:55 pm
Keynote: Ernst Ising-Lars Onsager Distinguished Lecture
"Topological Defect Driven Phase Transitions in Two Dimensions: An Exact Result from an Approximate Theory
Michael Kosterlitz, Harrison E. Farnsworth Professor of Physics, Brown University
Introductory Remarks on Lars Onsager by Lai-Sheng Wang, Chair of the Chemistry Department, Brown University
Introductory Remarks on Ernst Ising by Thomas Ising, Ernst Ising's son
Introductions by Richard Stratt, Newport Rogers Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, Brown University; and Bill Camp, Sandia National Laboratories and Intel, emeritus
2:45 pm
Sweatbox Session with Michael Kosterlitz
3:05 pm
"Never Make a Calculation Unless You Know the Answer"
Bill Camp, Director of Supercomputing, emeritus, Sandia National Laboratories; Director of the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative; Head of Development for the world's first teraflop computer; Chief Supercomputing Architect, emeritus, Intel; Winner of the IEEE Seymour Cray Supercomputing Award
3:25 pm
Henri Luchian, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Professor of Computer Science, the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania
3:40 pm
Andrea Califano, Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University
3:55 pm
"Socio-Economic Gradients of Development in Pathways of Aging"
Caleb "Tuck" Finch, University Professor and ARCO/William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology of Aging, University of Southern California
4:15 pm
Keynote: A Jon von Neumann Distinguished Lecture
"Allele-Specific Expression as a Pairwise Contest"
Andy Clark, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Population Genetics, Cornell University; Brown University alumnus
Introduction by Sohini Ramachandran, Hermon C. Bumpus Professor of Biology; Professor of Computer Science; and Director of the Data Science Institute, Brown University
4:45 pm
Audience Q&A Session
4:55 pm
"Discovery: How, If Not AI?"
Laxmi Parida, IBM Master Inventor and Group Leader in Computational Genetics at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
5:10 pm
"The Origin of Sorin's Computational Biology Research"
Ernie Brickell, Chief Security Architect, emeritus, Intel; Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research
Bill Hart, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
5:25 pm
Franco Preparata, An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Brown University, Visionary Founder of CCMB
5:30 pm
Conference Dinner at the Hope Club (by invitation only)