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SUMMARY:Wolfgang Pauli Lectures 2015
DTSTART:20151027T201500
DTEND:20151027T220000
DTSTAMP:20260510T131420Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The Wolfgang Pauli Lectures are an annual lecture series that 
 is devoted alternatingly to Physics\, Mathematics and Biology. They are na
 med after the great theoretical physicist and Nobel laureat Wolfgang Pauli
 \, who was professor at ETH Zürich from 1928 until his death in 1958. The
  first Wolfgang Pauli Lectures were given in 1962 by Max Delbrück\, and o
 ver the years there have been many eminent speakers\, including a number o
 f Nobel laureats.\nThe Wolfgang Pauli Lectures 2015 are dedicated to mathe
 matics.Lovely Bones: a Meeting of Mathematical and Biological Minds\nTuesd
 ay\, October 27\, 2015 (20:15 h) Auditorium Maximum\, HG F 30\nThe talk wi
 ll present mathematical explorations motivated by the need of biological m
 orphologists to compare different phenotypical structures. At present\, sc
 ientists using physical traits to study evolutionary relationships among l
 iving and extinct animals analyze data extracted from carefully defined an
 atomical correspondence points (landmarks). Identifying and recording thes
 e landmarks is time consuming and can be done accurately only by trained m
 orphologists. This necessity renders these studies inaccessible to non-mor
 phologists and causes phenomics to lag behind genomics in elucidating evol
 utionary patterns.\nUnlike other algorithms presented for morphological co
 rrespondences\, the approach presented in the talk does not require any pr
 eliminary marking of special features or landmarks by the user. It also di
 ffers from other seminal work in computational geometry in that the algori
 thms are polynomial in nature and thus faster\, making pairwise comparison
 s feasible for significantly larger numbers of digitized surfaces.\nThis a
 pproach has already been used by biologists to obtain new results.\nAnd th
 ere are many further avenues to be explored!
LOCATION:ETH Zürich http://www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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