GENERAL SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

June 19, 2013
THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

August 24-26, 2013
MAGE - Methods and Algorithms for Genome
Evolution

In honor of David Sankoff’s 50th anniversary of research
contribution

To be held at
Hotel Chateau-Bromont, Eastern Townships, Quebec


Organizing Committee
Cedric Chauve (co-chair),SFU
Nadia El-Mabrouk (co-chair), UMontréal
Eric Tannier (co-chair), Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Outline of the Program

Each day will be subdivided into two sessions: a morning and an afternoon session. The morning session will begin by a keynote talk (45 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions), followed by 5 short talks (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions).
The afternoon session will begin by a keynote talk, followed by up to 4 talks, followed by a poster session. We will leave enough time for discussions, collaborations and special talks dedicated to David Sankoff contribution to the field. There will also be opportunities for r junior participants the oto present posters. The expected the number of participants is around 50: the the organizing committee, 6 keynote speakers, 16-20 regular speakers and around 15 graduate students, postdocs and early career researchers.

This conference gathering researchers with various backgrounds working on complementary fields of comparative genomics, will be a perfect opportunity to publish a book on the most recent advances in the field, from the fundamental and empirical point of view.

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