[BioC] Workshop in Cambridge UK, 31.3.-4.4.2008: High Dimensional Statistics in Biology

[Wolfgang Huber]

Meeting announcement and invitation for registration:
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Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK

            High Dimensional Statistics in Biology

                 (31 March to 4 April 2008)

in association with the Newton Institute programme "Statistical Theory 
and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data" (7 January to 27 June 2008)

Workshop Organisers:  Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Ewan Birney (EBI), 
Wolfgang Huber (EBI) and Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute)

Theme of Workshop:  The study of biological systems has been 
revolutionized by the advent of large scale systematic data gathering. 
An increasing number of complex datasets inform our biological 
understanding of both the normal workings of organisms in biology and 
processes which cause disease.

The analysis of these datasets, which  has become an increasingly 
important part of biology, poses a number of interesting statistical 
problems, largely driven by the complex inter-relationships between 
measurements. The size and complexity of these datasets make even 
adaptation of existing statistical techniques to biological problems 
novel. In some cases, the development of entirely new statistical 
methods is necessary.  Methods developed and developing for high 
dimensional (large p) and possibly small sample size (small n) inference 
seem particularly germane.

In this workshop we aim to provide a collegial, interdisciplinary group 
of statisticians and biologists to exchanges ideas and challenges at the 
Newton Institute in Cambridge UK. Drawing on both nearby expertise at 
the Hinxton Campus (the EBI and the Sanger Institute) and worldwide 
expertise in statistics the workshop will involve 45-50 minute overview 
talks from both biologists and statisticians and less structured, 
collaboration based time as well as a possible poster session.

Confirmed  Speakers: J Ahringer (Cambridge), N Beerenwinkel(ETH Zurich), 
P Bertone (EMBL-EBI), E Birney (EMBL-EBI), P Bickel (Berkeley), P 
Buehlmann (ETH Zurich), S Brunak (Denmark), ML Bulyk (Harvard), 
D.Clayton (MRC Cambridge), G Crawford (Duke), M Dermitzakis (Sanger, 
Cambridge), R Durbin (Sanger, Cambridge), A Enright (Sanger, Cambridge), 
A  Fraser (Sanger, Cambridge),  W Huber (EMBL-EBI), M Hurles (Sanger, 
Cambridge), N Luscombe (EBI, Cambridge), EM Marcotte (Texas at Austin), 
E Margulies (NHGRI), G McLachlan (Queensland), G McVean(Oxford), L 
Pachter (Berkeley), E Segal (Weizmann, Israel), M West (Duke)

Further Information and Application Forms are available at:

http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/schw02.html

Closing Date for the receipt of applications is 30 November 2007