THE PONTIFICAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA AND SCIENCE: Relevance of Computational Sciences for Data Collection, Data Storage and Data Management in Basic and Applied Scientific Investigations 17-18 November 2015 Casina Pio IV Vatican City
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Programme TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2015 Session 1-0 GREETINGS AND OVERVIEW 9:00 Welcome Speech Werner Arber (PAS President) 9:10 Welcome Greetings Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo (PAS Chancellor) 9:20 Outline of the entire Workshop Rafael Vicuña (PAS Academician) 9:35 Scope of the Workshop Takashi Gojobori (PAS Academician,KAUST,KSA / NIG,Japan) Session 1-1 GENOMICS 10:00 Data Analysis of cyanobactrial genomes John Archer (Principal Research Scientist, KAUST, KSA) 10:30 The architecture of human chromosomes: a new insight into genome organization Giorgio Bernardi (Professor at Rome 3 University in Rome, Italy) 11:00 Big Data in the Study of Early Microbial Life Bill Martin (Professor at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf, Germany) 11:30 Data analysis of vertebrate genomes Norihiro Okada (Professor, TIT, Tokyo, Japan) 12:30 Lunch Session 1-2 EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER 14:00 Nuclear power plant safety and data Tomihiro Taniguchi (Former Vice Director-General of IAEA, and Visiting Professor, TIT, Tokyo, Japan) 14:30 Importance of Data Science Simon Hodson (CODATA Executive Director, CODATA/ICSU, Paris) 15:00 Big data for unlearning of nuclear issues after Fukushima Daiichi Accident Shu-ichi Iwata (Professor-Emeritus at Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan) 15:30 Break 4 BIG DATA AND SCIENCE
Session 1-3 BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION 16:00 Big data in biodiversity... 16:30 Use of the compositional neighbor-joining method of constructing phylogenetic trees in large data analysis Masatoshi Nei (Professor, Pennsylvania State University, US) 17:00 Big data and bacterial evolution Werner Arber (PAS President) 17:30 Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Epistatic Interactions Shozo Yokoyama (Professor, Emory Univ., US) 18:30 Dinner Session 2-1 ASTRONOMY WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015 9:00 Historical data of astronomy José G. Funes (PAS member, Director of Vatican Observatory) TBC 9:30 Big data in astronomy Martin Rees (PAS Academician, Fellow of Trinity College and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astorophysics at the University of Cambridge) 10:00 Big data and citizen science in astronomy Christopher Lintott (Professor of Astorophysics and Citizen Science lead in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford) Session 2-2 HUMAN HEALTH 10:30 Inferring Biological Landscapes of Human Disease from Genome-Scale Data Partha Majumder (Director, NIBB, India) 11:00 Cancer and Big Data Chung-I Wu (Director, GIB, China) 11:30 Finding useful information in big biomedical data Vladmir Bajic (Director, KAUST,KSA) 12:00 Big data in malaria research... 13:00 Lunch BIG DATA AND SCIENCE 5
Session 2-3 SYSTEM 14:30 Big data in biological system Rafael Vicuña (PAS Academician, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 15:00 Data-centric science Genshiro Kitagawa (President of Research Organization of Information & System in Tokyo, Japan) 15:30 Big data in robotics Shuji Hashimoto (Vice President of Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan) 16:00 Big data in gene expression network system Wen-Hsiung Li (Director, Institute of Biodiversity, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 16:30 Break Session 2-4 DATABASE 17:00 Big data in bioinformatics Janet Thornton (Director of EBI, UK) 17:30 Data in historical publications Cesare Pasini (PAS Academician, Prefect of Vatican Library, Vatican) TBC 18:00 Big data in... Ron Appel (Director, SIB, Switzerland) 18:30 Future in the big data problems in life science David Lipman (Director, NCBI/NIH, US) 19:30 Dinner 6 BIG DATA AND SCIENCE
List of Participants Speakers APPEL Ron ARBER Werner ARCHER John A.C. BAJIC Vladimir B. BERNARDI Giorgio CHUNG-I WU GOJOBORI Takashi HASHIMOTO Shuji IWATA Shuichi LI Wen-Hsiung LINOTT Christopher MAJUMDER Partha P. MARTIN William F. NEI Masatoshi OKADA Norihiro REES Martin TANIGUCHI Tomohiro VICUÑA Rafael WU Chung-I YOKOYAMA Shozo BIG DATA AND SCIENCE 7
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