[Colloq] ECE-CDSP seminar

[Eric Miller]

Can the following be advertised?

Thanks,

Eric


The Communications and Digital Signal Processign Center in ECE will be 
hosting a seminar to be given by Peter C. Doerschuk titled, Challenges 
in the Computational Structural Biology of Viruses on Monday, Arpil 4, 
2005 at 3:30 PM in 340 Egan Building. Light refreshments will be served 
and interested faculty and students are welcome and encouraged to 
attend.


Structural biology is an important area of biology, both pure and 
applied.  The computational aspects of structural biology pose 
challenges in areas that are long-standing research interests of EECS, 
e.g., statistical estimation, pattern classification, and nonlinear 
programming.  The success of high-throughput genetic sequencing and the 
similar, though not as far advanced, success of high-throughput protein 
structure determination by x-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic 
resonance imply that an important frontier of structural biology 
concerns challenges related to the interactions of multiple 
macromolecular molecules in what are essentially nano-machines.  In 
this talk, some of these challenges will be described and results 
concerning the structural biology of viruses will be used as 
illustrations of the types of systems, control, and signal
processing problems that arise.

Peter Doerschuk is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 
and Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He received BSEE, 
MSEE, and PhD degrees from MIT in EECS in 1977, 1979, and 1985, 
respectively and an MD degree from Harvard Medical School (HST) in 
1987.  After a postdoc at LIDS he joined Purdue in 1990.  His research 
interests are in computational biology and a variety of areas in 
estimation, dynamical systems, and computation motivated by 
computational biology requirements.
For additional information, contact Joan Pratt Tel. +1.617.373.2368 or 
email: jpratt at ece.neu.edu
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