This workshop will explore recent progress made in optimization and data analysis in biomedical informatics. Discuss challenges and roadblocks in biomedical informatics with reference to the application of data mining, new computing technologies and paradigms (e.g., cloud computing), optimization and control, and systems engineering .

Academic and industry researchers as well as practitioners in medicine and health care.

Friday, June 11, 2010
9:00 am	Opening Remarks: Thomas Coleman, University of Waterloo
9:15 am	Developments in Optimization Algorithms for Data Analysis Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:00 am	Consistent Biclustering via Nonlinear 0-1 Optimization Panos Pardalos, University of Florida
10:45 am	Coffee Break
11:00 am	Advances in Biclustering Methods for Re-ordering Data Matrices in Systems Biology, Drug Discovery, and Prediction of In Vivo Toxicities from In Vitro Experimental Data Christodoulos Floudas, Princeton University
11:45 am	Mathematical Models of Supervised Learning and their Application to Medical Diagnosis Mario Guarracino, Italian National Research Council
12:30 pm	Lunch Break
2:00 pm	Data Mining Approaches for a Multiclass Cell Death Discrimination Problem Petros Xanthopoulos, University of Florida
2:45 pm	Robust Estimation of Mean Functions and Treatment Effects for Recurrent Events Under Event-Dependent Censoring and Termination: Application to Skeletal Complications in Cancer Metastatic to Bone Richard Cook, University of Waterloo
3:30 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 pm	A Semi-Infinite Linear Programming Approach to Gamma Knife Perfexion Hamid Ghaffari, University of Toronto
4:30 pm	Systematic Identification and Characterization of Cancer Biomarkers Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto
5:15 pm	Reception - Fields Atrium
Saturday, June 12, 2010
9:30 am	Challenges and Opportunities for Extracting Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers from Non-Contrast CT Data Ioannis Kakadiaris, University of Houston
10:15 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am	Feedback Control for Epileptic Seizure Suppression Kostas Tsakalis, University of Arizona
11:15 am	Closing Remarks – Panos Pardalos, University of Florida