DIMACS Tutorial and Workshop on Bioconsensus II

October 2, 2001 (Tutorial)
October 3 - 5, 2001 (Workshop)
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Tutorial Organizers:

Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, mcmorris@iit.edu

William H.E. Day, whday@istar.ca

Workshop Organizers:

Mel Janowitz, Rutgers University, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal, lapoinf@biol.umontreal.ca

Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, mcmorris@iit.edu

Boris Mirkin, University of London, mirkin@dcs.bbk.ac.uk

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Wednesday October 3, 2001

8:00-9:00    Breakfast and Registration

9:00-9:05    Welcome and Greeting:
             Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS Director

9:05-9:15    Welcome and Greeting: 
             Workshop Organizers

Session Chair: Mel Janowitz, Rutgers University

9:15-9:55    Robert Powers, University of Louisville
             Consensus n-trees, weak independence and veto power

10:00-10:30  Break

10:35-11:15  Junhyong Kim, Yale University
             Super-trees and consensus trees from distance embedding

11:20-12:00  Mark Wilkinson, The Natural History Museum of London and 
             Joe Thorley, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol
             and Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum
             Reduced Consensus and Supertree Methods

12:00-12:30  Discussion Session

12:30-1:45   Lunch

Session Chair: Guy Cucumel, Universite du Quebec a Montreal

1:45-2:25    Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal
             How many consensus trees?

2:30-3:10    Alan de Queiroz, University of Colorado - Boulder
             Phylogenetic Analysis as Meta-Analysis

3:15-3:45    Break

3:45-4:25    Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State 
             Flipping to Achieve Consensus

4:25-5:00    Discussion Session

5:15-        Van Returns to Holiday Inn


Thursday October 4, 2001

8:00-9:00    Breakfast and Registration

Session Chair: Robert Powers, University of Louisville

9:00-9:40    Douglas Cork, Illinois Institute of Technology
             The W-Curve: Trying to Reach Genomic Bioconsensus in Numerically
             Mapped Chaos Space

9:45-10:25   David Bryant, McGill University
             Exact and Polynomial Time Algorithms for Supertrees

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-11:40  John J. Wiens, Carnegie Museums
             Consensus, Combination and Supertrees: Integrating Diverse
             Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees

11:40-12:00  Discussion Session

12:00-1:30   Lunch

Session Chair: Francois-Joseph Lapointe, Universite de Montreal

1:30-2:30    Informal Interaction Among Participants

2:30-3:10    Guy Cucumel, Universite du Quebec a Montreal
             Confidence Intervals on Consensus Trees

3:15-3:45    Break

3:45-4:25    Boris Mirkin, University of London
             Clusters of Orthologous Proteins as Characters in Tree Building

4:25-4:45    Discussion Session

4:50-6:00    Wine and Cheese Reception

6:15-        Van Returns to Holiday Inn


Friday October 5, 2001

8:00-9:00    Breakfast and Registration

Session Chair: Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology

9:00-9:40    Tommy Ratliff, Wheaton College
             Thousands of Candidates and a Handful of Voters -
             An Application of Voting Theory from Pharmaceutical Development

9:45-10:25   Claudine Levasseur, Universite de Montreal
             Total Evidence, Consensus, Global Congruence and Simulations

10:30-11:00  Break

11:00-11:40  Fred Roberts, Rutgers University
             Consensus List Colorings of Graphs and Physical Mapping of DNA

11:40-11:50  Discussion Session

11:50-12:30  Li-San Wang, University of Texas at Austin
             Clustering and Consensus in Phylogenetic Analysis

12:30-12:45  Discussion and Farewell 

12:45-1:45   Lunch

2:00-        Van Returns to Holiday Inn

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