[Statlist] Seminar ueber Statistik

[Christina Kuenzli]

                       ETH and University of Zurich 
      Proff. A.D. Barbour -- P. Buehlmann -- F. Hampel -- H.R. Kuensch 

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           We are pleased to announce the following talks
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Friday, April 8, 2005, 15.15, LEO C15

        Protein Folding and Structure Prediction - A Statistician's View

        Ingo Ruczinski, Department of Biostatistics, 
        Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Many apparently unrelated diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, cystic 
fibrosis, and various cancers result from protein folding gone wrong. 
Understanding the actual folding pathways of proteins therefore could 
have a tremendous impact on public health, however, this issue remains 
largely unsolved. Many experiments carried out to understand the folding 
pathway from the unfolded state to the folded functional state generate 
data that have interesting statistical aspects, which we will discuss in 
this seminar. We will also briefly touch on statistical issues in ab 
initio protein structure prediction and its applications, such as the 
functional annotation of genes. 
        
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Friday, April 15, 2005, 15.15, LEO C15

        Modeling nonstationary spatial covariance

        Peter Guttorp, University of Washington and Lund University
        
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Christina Kuenzli            <kuenzli at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Seminar fuer Statistik      
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ETH-Zentrum,                       fax  : +41 1 632 1228 
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