[Colloquium] [TTIC Talks] TTIC Talks: Bonnie Kirkpatrick, UBC

[Jinbo Xu]

Just a reminder that we will have a job talk starting at 11am. Below
please see the title and abstract.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Liv Leader <lleader at ttic.edu> wrote:
> When:     Monday, February 25th at 11 a.m.
>
> Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526
>
> Who:      Bonnie Kirkpatrick, UBC
>
> Title:      Biological Models with Combinatorial Spaces
>
>    Probabilistic models are common in biology. Many of the successful
> models have been readily tractable, leaving calculations on models with
> a combinatorial-sized state space as an open problem. This talk
> examines two kinds of models with combinatorial state spaces:
> continuous-time and discrete-time Markov chains. These models are
> applied to two problems: RNA folding pathways and family genetics.
> While the applications are disparate topics in biology, they are
> related via their models, the statistical quantities of interest, and
> in some cases the computational techniques used to calculate those
> quantities.
>
>    Dr. Kirkpatrick is from Montana, a state where the population
> density is one person per square mile.  She attended Montana State
> University for her undergraduate degree in computer science, before
> moving to California.  Once there, she completed her doctoral
> dissertation on "Algorithms for Human Genetics" under the supervision
> of Richard M. Karp and received her Ph.D. in computer science.  Now she
> is at the University of British Columbia doing post-doctoral work with
> Anne Condon in the Department of Computer Science.
>
> Host: Jinbo Xu, j3xu at ttic.edu
>
> --
> Liv Leader
> Director of Human Resources and International Affairs
>
> Toyota Technological Institute Chicago
> 6045 S Kenwood Ave
> Chicago, IL 60637
> Phone- (773) 702-5033
> Fax-     (773) 834-9881
> Email-  lleader at ttic.edu
> Web-   www.ttic.edu



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