Schedule

09:00

Arrival and registration

Session chair: Maria Anisimova

09:30

Opening remarks: Markus Püschel (Head of CS Department, ETH Zurich)

09:40

Walter Gander: "Gaston and Maple's Impact at ETH"

10:00

Joachim von zur Gathen: "Gaston Gonnet"

10:20

Felipe Cucker: "On a Problem Posed by Steve Smale"

10:35

Chantal Roth: "To the Stars and Beyond: Sequencing Adventures"

10:50

Coffee break

Session chair: Christophe Dessimoz

11:20

Steven Benner: "Planetary Biology. Bioinformatics plus chemistry plus natural history"

11:40

Michael Monagan: "Gaston, Maple and Mike"

12:00

Nivio Ziviani: "The University of the Future: Taking Knowledge Out of Campus, A Personal Tale

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Coffee, dessert & posters

Session Chair: Bernard Moret

14:00

Niko Beerenwinkel: "Viral quasispecies assembly"

14:15

Laurent Bernardin: "Symbolic Computing for Modeling and Simulation"

14:30

Christophe Dessimoz: "Speeding up all-against-all comparisons"

14:45

Amos Bairoch: "A Global Analysis of Sequence Trees and Orthology Networks"

15:05

Bernard Moret: "Phylogenetic Transfer of Knowledge"

15:25

Group photo

15:30

Coffee break

Session chair: Walter Gander

15:50

Ricardo Baeza-Yates: "The Shift-Or Algorithm: Twenty-five Years Later"

16:10

Gaston Gonnet

16:45

Concluding remarks: Maria Anisimova

16:50

Reception