Scientific Activities
A list of recent & past events (contributed and attended conferences, meetings, workshops - Presentations: T= Talk, P=Poster).
Invited:
MSRI (Mathematical Sciences and Research Institute), Berkeley, CA, May 3-5, 2006,
“Mathematical Systems Biology of Cancer”, workshop.
AIM (American Institute of Mathematics), Palo Alto, CA, Aug 29 - Sept 2, 2005,
“Numerical Methods for Optimal Control in High Dimensions”, ARCC workshop.
MSRI (Mathematical Sciences and Research Institute), Berkeley, CA, Dec 9-13, 2004,
“Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Visualization and Analysis of High- Dimensional Data”, workshop.
IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications), Minneapolis (US), Nov 18-20, 2004.
“Future Challenges in Multiscale Modeling and Simulation”, workshop.
T: Looking at Systems Biology for Method Development, Data Dimensionality and Feature Discovery.
Institute Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore, Febr 2004.
IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications), Minneapolis (US), Sept 29-Oct 3, 2003.
“Statistical Genomics for Gene Expression, Microarrays and Proteomics”, workshop.
IPAM (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics), UCLA, on May 18-23, 2003, and held at Lake Arrowhead, CA (US).
“Applied Inverse Problems: Theoretical and Computational Aspects”.
Lorentz Center, Leiden Un. (NL), on Sept 9-20, 2002.
“High-Dimensional Data in Mathematical Statistics and Biomedical Applications” workshop. Discussant.
T: Cascade Dynamics Processes for Inverse Problems, Physics-Signal-Physics,
School on “Nonlinear Physics and Information Sciences´, Les Houches Center of Physics, Sept 8-13, 2002.
T: Royal Holloway University of London, Sept 2002.
T: Hammerstein System and Independent Components for representing and Decomposing Stochastic Processes,
Smoothing 2002, Workshop on “Nonparametric Smoothing in Complex Statistical Models”, Ascona, Apr-May 28-3, 2002.
T: APFA3 Conference, London, Dec 5-7, 2000
T: Computational and Quantitative analysis through modern signal processing tools,
Imperial College, London (UK), London Probability Seminar, Dec 1999.
T: Statistical Aspects of Semiparametric Artificial Neural Networks,
International Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, CISS'96,
Princeton University, NJ (USA) March 19-21, 1996. Invited Lecture.
Contributed:
P: Learning Latent Dynamics in Biological Manifolds
Integrative Post-Genomics, Lyon's Intern. Multidiscipl. meeting, Nov 29-30 and Dec 1, 2006
IPG'06 is co-organized by the Université Lyon 1, INSA Lyon and ENS Lyon.
Accepted for presentation at BiOS 2007, SPIE meeting SanJose, CA (US), Jan 20-25, 2007,
Complex Dynamics and Fluctuations in Biomedical Photonics IV.
P: Signal Disentanglement in In Vivo MR Spectroscopy: by Semi-Parametric Processing or by Measurement?
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Joint work with Danielle Graveron-Demilly, Dirk van Ormondt et al.
T: Entropy Fluctuation Analysis of Biosystem Dynamics
XVIII Congresso Nazionale della Societa' Italiana di Biofisica Pura e Applicata (SIBPA), Palermo, (IT), 09/17-21/2006.
SPIE, Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics, 10-13 Dec, Adelaide, AU. Accepted for oral presentation (declined).
T: Statistical Embedding in Complex Biosystems
International Workshop Integrative Bioinformatics, 3rd annual meeting, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK, 4-6/09/2006.
Published on Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics YearBook 2006
P: De-Noising and Stabilization in Sampled Genomic Systems
International Workshop on Systems Biology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, 07/17-19/2006.
T: 2nd International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology,
University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, 09/5-7/2006 (declined).
P: Data mining, signal deconvolution and statistical inference in perturbed biological networks
Workshop on Multiscale Biological Imaging, Data Mining &
Informatics, University California at Santa Barbara, CA (USA), Sept 7-8,
2006
P: Sampling Genomic Systems with Signal Interference
International Congress of Nanobiotechnology & Nanomedicine, San Francisco, CA, 06/19-21/2006 (declined)
11th Conference on Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems, University of Parma (IT), Physics Dept., 06/21-23/2006.
T: Error bounds for semi-parametric estimation in MRS,
Int. Soc. for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine meeting, May 6-12, 2006, Seattle (US).
Joint work with H. Ratiney, H. Rabeson, C. Cudalbu, S. Cavassila, R. de Beer, D. van Ormondt, D. Graveron.
P: Entropic Embedding in High-Dimensional Biological Systems
BITS 2006, Bologna, April 28-29, 2006 (declined).
Second EuCheMs School on Protein Chemistry, Jan 15-20, 2006, Canazei (IT).
T: Robustness versus Redundancy in Biological Systems
4th International conference on UPoN 2005,
“Unsolved Problems on Noise and Fluctuations in Physics, Biology & High Technology”, Gallipoli (IT), 06-10/06/2005.
P: Exploration and Reduction of High-Dimensional Spaces with Independent Component Analysis
ISNB 2005 2nd International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics, Amsterdam (NL), 23-25/05/2005.
P: Dimensionality Reduction in Complex Genomic System
10th
Conference on Statistical Mechanics and Complex
Systems, 29-06/01-07-2005, University of Parma (IT), Physics Dept.;
4th European Conference on Computational Biology(ECCB) 2005, Madrid, Sept 28 - Oct 1, 2005. (declined)
T: Denoising and Dimensionality Reduction of Genomic Data
3rd SPIE international symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 23-26/05/2005, Austin, TX (US) (proceedings);
P: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Meeting (BioSysBio 2005) in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2005.
T: Dimensionality reduction, sparse decomposition and feature selection in genomic systems
Interdisciplinary Research Inst. @ Inst. de Biologie de Lille, FR, Oct 24-25/05;
“Understanding the Genome, Microarray applications from biology to clinics”, Genova, IT, Nov 11-13, 2005;
P: Joint Meeting of the Chinese Society of Probability and Statistics (CSPS) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), Beijing, Jul 9-12, 2005.
T: Computational aspects of High-Dimensional Genomics
International Congress of Nanotechnology (ICNT) 2005, San Francisco, CA, Oct 31- Nov 4, 2005 (proceedings).
Other events:
T: Independent Component Analysis and Gene Networks Exploratory Analysis
Boston University Conference on Biomedical Engineering in Science and Medicine, June 22-23, 2004.
MSRI workshop “Analysis of Algorithms”, June 14-18, 2004, Berkeley (US).
T: Multiscale Stochastic Dynamics,
PHYSCON 2003, Physics and Control, Saint-Petersburg (RU) Aug 20-22, 2003.
APFA4 Conference, Warsaw University of Technology, Nov 13-15, 2003
T: Dimension Reduction and Multi-scaling Law through Source Extraction,
NEXT 2003, News and Expectations in Thermostatistics, Cagliari, IT, Sept. 21-28, 2003
SPIE ICA Wavelets NN Conference, Orlando (FL) April 21-25, 2003
T: Computational Learning for Non-stationary Systems
First EMS-SMAI-SMF, Joint Conference AMAM (Applied Mathematics and Applications of Mathematics), Nice (FR), Febr 10-13, 2003.
T: On Sparsity and Decomposition Properties of Kernel Methods
Hamilton Institute, Ireland, Oct 2002; - DYNSTOCH conf., H.Poincare' Inst., Paris Jun 15-17, 2001.
T: On Support Vector Machines and Sparse Approximation for Random Processes
NORDSTAT 2002, 19th Conf. Mathematical Statistics, Stockholm, Jun 9-13, 2002.
T: Multi-resolution properties of semi-parametric models
Nonlinear Estimation and Classification. MSRI, Berkeley (CA), 03/19-29/2001.
T: Neural Networks and Statistical Inference: seeking robust and efficient learning
International Association for Statistical Computing, Second World Conference, Pasadena, CA (USA), Febr 19-22, 1997. Award of Appreciation.
T: A semiparametric approach for Artificial Neural Networks modelling and learning theory
Mathematics of Neural Networks and Applications Conf., Oxford, UK 07/3-7/1995.
T: A unifying view of Stochastic Approximation, Kalman Filter and Backpropagation
IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing. MIT,Cambridge, MA (USA) Aug-Sept 31-2, 1995.