Schedule (tentative)

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

11:40

Michael Monagan

12:00

Nivio Ziviani

12:15

Group photo

12:30

Lunch

13:15

Coffee, dessert & posters

Session Chair: Bernard Moret

14:00

Gaston Gonnet

14:35

Niko Beerenwinkel: "Viral quasispecies assembly"

14:50

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

15:05

Laurent Bernardin: "Symbolic Computing for Modeling and Simulation"

15:20

Coffee break

Session chair: Walter Gander

15:50

Amos Bairoch

16:10

Bernard Moret: "Phylogenetic Transfer of Knowledge"

16:30

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

16:45

Concluding remarks: Maria Anisimova