ITR BioGeometry Meeting & NSF Site Visit on November 14, 2002, at UNC-CH

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Morning Session (in Sitterson Hall)
8:15
Coffee and juice in Sitterson 115
8:45
Introductions and Welcome
Fred Brooks
9:00
Introductory Overview of ITR Project
Herbert Edelsbrunner
9:20
Research Accomplishments - PI Overview
  Herbert Edelsbrunner
Jean-Claude Latombe
Jack Snoeyink
10:20 Educational Accomplishments
Jack Snoeyink
10:45
Break
11:00
Research Accomplishments - Student Presentations
  Structural matching of proteins
Rachel Kolodny (Stanford)
 
A definition of interfaces for protein oligomers
Andrew Ban (Duke)
An algorithm for fast Monte Carlo simulations of proteins
Itay Lotan (Stanford)
Chain growing using statistical energy functions
David O'Brien (UNC)
12:30 Working Lunch
Site visit team meets with students and postdocs for pizza in Sitterson 115. PIs lunch separately.
1:45 Break
Afternoon Session (in Sitterson Hall)
2:10 Research Accomplishments
  Local squaring functions for non-spherical templates
Charlie Carter (UNC)
Quantum chemistry - modeling solvation: Fe+ rare gas clusters
Solomon Bililign (NC A&T)
Statistical potentials based on Alpha Shapes
Afra Zomorodian (Stanford)
Protein-protein docking
Pankaj Agarwal (Duke)
Computational design of protein function
Loren Looger (Duke)
3:50 Break
4:05 Collaboration and Extending the Community
Herbert Edelsbrunner
4:30 Q&A Session
5:30 Mixer, Demos, and Posters
In Sitterson Hall lower lobby
On Friday, most BioGeometry meeting participants will attend TBS2002, which is organized by the BioGeometry team and the UNC Program in Cellular and Molecular Biophysics. The schedule below is for the information of the site visit team and those closely involved with the site review.
Morning Session (at Hill Alumni Center)
8:15 Round-table discussion between site visit team and available PIs. Q&A for outstanding issues and questions from previous day.
9:00 Triangle Biophysics presentation:
Computational structural biology: from protein evolution to topological classifiers by Michael Levitt (Stanford)
10:00 Site visit report preparation
Afternoon Session
12:30 Feedback session for PIs and NSF site visit team