From the Organizer

The Second Annual Meeting of the Duke/Stanford/UNC Bio/Geo NSF ITR grant will be held at Stanford on October 22 and 23, 2001. All presentations and discussions will be held in the Gates Computer Science building.

Last update: 14 October, 2001. Please address questions on the program to Leonidas Guibas.

Schedule
Monday, October 22
8:00 - 8:45 Coffee and continental breakfast
(Gates 104)		 All
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome L. Guibas (Stanford)
9:00 - 9:30 Stochastic Roadmap Simulation: Efficient Algorithms and Representations for Molecular Motion Serkan Apaydin (Stanford)
9:30 - 10:00 Simplification of 3-Dimensional Density Maps Vijay Natarajan (Duke)
10:00 - 10:30 Computing the Writhing Number of a Polygonal Knot Yusu Wang (Duke)

10:30 - 11:00

 Area Derivatives for a Space-Filling Diagram Herbert Edelsbrunner (Duke)
11:00 - 11:30

Discussion

 All
11:30 - 2:00 Lunch
(Gates AT&T Patio)		 All
2:00 - 2:30

Small Libraries of Protein Fragments Accurately Model Native Protein Structures
(Gates 104)

 Rachel Kolodny (Stanford)
2:30 - 3:00 Shape Similarity on HP Lattice Models Nabil Mustafa (Duke)
3:00 - 3:30 Protein-Protein Interactions in a Post-Genomic World Johannes Rudolph (Duke)
3:30 - 4:00 Theoretical Investigations of Transition Metal Ion Noble Gas Cluster Interactions Nayana Vaval and Solomon Bililign (NCAT)
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee
(Gates 159)		 All
4:30 - 5:30 PI meeting, NSF Site Visit Planning PIs only
6:30 - 9:00 Dinner
(Ming's in Palo Alto)		 Approximately $45/person. Please address questions to Patrice Koehl.

Tuesday, October 23
8:00 - 9:00
 Coffee and continental breakfast
(Gates 104)
All
9:00 - 9:30
 Using H Bonds to Determine Binding Configurations for PXR Andrew Leaver-Fay & Robert-Paul Berretty (UNC)
9:30 - 10:00
 The Role of Collision Detection in Energy Minimization -David Hsu (UNC)
10:00 - 10:30
 Maintaining Sphere Hierarchies Daniel Russel (Stanford)

10:30 - 11:00

 Efficient Self-Collision Detection for a Chain of Spheres Itay Lotan (Stanford)t
11:00 - 11:30
 Discussion All
11:30 - 2:00
 Lunch
(Gates AT&T Patio)		 All
2:00 - 2:30

Software Libraries for Geometric Computation in Structural Biology
(Gates 104)

 Lutz Kettner (ex-UNC)
2:30 - 2:45

Computing "Almost Delaunay" Triangles

 Deepak Bandyopadhyay (UNC)
2:45 - 3:00
 Chain Growing Using Potentials Computed by Incremental Delaunay Tetrahedralization David O'Brien (UNC)
3:30 - 4:00
 Coffee All
4:00 - 5:30
 Concluding Discussion and Planning All