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SUMMARY:Biology for algorithms and algorithms for biology
DTSTART:20140702T110000
DTEND:20140702T120000
DTSTAMP:20260511T062139Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:James Zou\, Microsoft Research New England and MIT\nI will try
  to illustrate the fruitful and fun interplay between algorithms and biolo
 gy through two recent vignettes. In the first part\, I will describe how w
 e can use slime mold to solve puzzles\, including linear programming probl
 ems\, as an example of biologically inspired algorithm. In the second\, I 
 will discuss an algorithm for deciphering the genomic ancestry of both par
 ents from the DNA of the offspring. This is a basic problem of personal ge
 nomics. No biological background will be assumed for this talk. \nBio: Ja
 mes Zou is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and MIT. He was 
 recently a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley and a research associate at the 
 Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He works on machine learning and compu
 tational genomics.
LOCATION:BC 420 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420
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