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WORKSHOPS
II. WORKSHOPS
Monday, 25 June 2012
The following Monday workshops are sponsored by NORM
12. AAASPD registrants are invited to attend these as interests
dictate. Please refer to the NORM 12 program for details
of each of these workshops.
Planning Your Job Search
Monday
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Preparing A Resumé
Monday
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Effective Interviewing
Monday
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
A New Look at Spectrophotometry – And Some
Other Things You can Do with Computers:
Using Computers to Cut Costs
and Buy Time for Inquiry
Monday
9:00 a.m. – Noon
Strategies for Supporting STEM Student
Learning with Process Oriented Guided
Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
Monday
1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Programmed Genome Remodeling
in Ciliates and Computing
ponderosa pines 1 & 2
Tuesday
1:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Two hour workshop organized by Marion Scheepers (Department
of Mathematics, Boise State University).
Ciliates are single cell organisms that harbor two types
of nuclei, one type an encrypted version of the other. Certain
events trigger replacement of the current nuclei by decryption
of the encrypted versions. The remodeling processes
performing the decryption solve very complex combinatorial
problems. Experimental evidence suggests that the decryption
can be reliably manipulated to yield results different
from the standard. This workshop will present an overview of
the ciliate decryption process, with special emphasis on the
programmable aspects of the process, and the computational
capabilities of the process. Participants will learn about the
cryptographic relationship between the two types of nuclei
per ciliate, how information can be encoded in DNA and
how to reprogram the ciliate decryption program. The workshop
will span three hours with a ten minute break between
hours. After this workshop, participants will be in a position
to appreciate the known mathematical findings regarding this
living computing environment, and the untapped potential
of this in vivo computing environment. No fee other than
meeting registration. Limited to twenty-five (25) participants.
NOTE: This workshop is part of the Mathematics program
for this meeting, which includes the symposium, Computability
and Complexity in Mathematics (see page 24 of
these Proceedings for information); contributed oral papers
given on Monday morning (see page 39), Tuesday afternoon
(in the middle of this workshop – see page 40) and on Wednesday
morning (see page 41); and a poster presented on Monday
afternoon (see page 45). Additionally, at the end of the contributed
oral presentations on Wednesday will be a Graduate
School Panel Discussion.
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