CALL  FOR  PAPERS
                              and
                   Call For Workshop Proposals

                          WORLDCOMP'08
           The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

               (composed of 25 Joint Conferences)

ACADEMIC SPONSORS: Research labs at Harvard University, UCLA,
Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Texas at Austin,
University of Iowa, and others (see below).

You are invited to submit a paper (and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop).  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.

The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following
25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA):

o BIOCOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics
   and Computational Biology

o CDES'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design

o CGVR'08: The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics
   and Virtual Reality

o CIC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Communications in
   Computing

o CSC'08: The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing

o DMIN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining

o EEE'08: The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning,
   e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government

o ERSA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of
   Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms

o ESA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems
   and Applications

o FCS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of
   Computer Science

o FECS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in
   Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering

o GCA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications

o GEM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and
   Evolutionary Methods

o ICAI'08: The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

o ICOMP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing

o ICWN'08: The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks

o IKE'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information and
   Knowledge Engineering

o IPCV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing,
   Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition

o ITSL'08: The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory
   and Statistical Learning

o MLMTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning;
   Models, Technologies and Applications

o MSV'08: The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation
   and Visualization Methods

o PDPTA'08: The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and
   Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications

o SAM'08: The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management

o SERP'08: The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering
   Research and Practice

o SWWS'08: The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and
   Web Services

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org)

General Co-Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    Vice President, Int'l Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

PURPOSE / HISTORY:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80
    countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
    lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
    poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers
    included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.);
    Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. David Cheriton (Stanford U.), Prof. A. K. Dunker
    (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys
    (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris Rowen (President and CEO,
    Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished speakers.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper
    (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document
    or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also
    fine.)  All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,
    the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
    typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone
    number for each author.  The first page should also identify the
    name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
    would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally, the name
    of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be
    stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
    the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will make
    the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

PROPOSAL FOR ORGANIZING SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  email your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address
    is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals by
    January 16, 2008.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    Jan.  16, 2008:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences)

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEES:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, a short
    biography together with research interests and the name of the
    conference offering to help with.
    Many who have already joined the committees of individual tracks
    are renowned leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and
    practitioners of the highest ranks; many are directors of research
    laboratories, fellows of various societies, heads/chairs of
    departments, deans and provosts.

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

SPONSORS: (this is a partial list)

    Academic Co-sponsors include:
    - Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory,
      Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
      http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/
    - Horvath Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
      http://www.genetics.ucla.edu/labs/horvath/CoexpressionNetwork/
    - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory, Georgia Institute
      of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
      http://www.bio-miblab.org/
    - Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory, University of
      Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
      http://www.ideal.ece.utexas.edu/
    - Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics,
      Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
      http://opal.biology.gatech.edu/GeneMark/
    - Hawkeye Radiology Informatics, Department of Radiology,
      College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
      http://www.uiowa.edu/~hri/
    - Medical Image HPC & Informatics Lab (MiHi Lab), University of Iowa,
      Iowa, USA
      http://www.uiowa.edu/mihpclab/
    - The University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
      http://www.und.edu
    - International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine
      http://www.isibm.org/
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
    Other Co-sponsors:
    - NIIT Technologies
      http://www.niit-tech.com/
    - High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano)
      http://www.hpcnano.org
    - International Technology Institute (ITI)
      http://www.itiworld.org/
    - GridToday
      http://www.gridtoday.com/gridtoday.html
    - HPCwire
      http://www.hpcwire.com/
    - Hodges' Health (H2CM), UK
      http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk

Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements
about this event, please send an email to hra@....



      
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C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

    The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
                          CDES'08

   Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Processor and co-processor design
   O  VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
   O  ASIC design and architectures
   O  Arithmetic circuits + Logic and circuit design
   O  Microarchitectures
   O  Power-efficient computer design and power management
   O  Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
   O  Innovative hardware/software architectures
   O  Scheduling techniques
   O  Prefetching techniques
   O  Architecture simulation systems
   O  Branch prediction
   O  Superscalar and dataflow design
   O  Interconnect and interface design
   O  Performance analysis and evaluation
   O  Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
   O  Benchmarking and measurements
   O  Quantum computing
   O  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
   O  Complexity issues
   O  Cache and memory systems
   O  Reliable architectures
   O  Computer systems design and applications
   O  High-level design methodologies
   O  Support of operating systems and languages
   O  Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
   O  Synthesis
   O  Pipelining
   O  Mixed-signal design and analysis
   O  Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
   O  FPGA-based design
   O  Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
   O  Case studies
   O  Emerging technologies

   O  Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great
interest:
      - Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
      - Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
      - Material science
      - Nanodevices and nanostructures
      - Biomolecular machinery
      - Nanomaterials
      - Nanomedicine
      - Nanobiotechnology
      - Scanning probes
      - Nanoelectronics
      - Nanosensors
      - Self-assembly
      - Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
      - Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
      - Supramolecular chemistry and technology
      - Supercomputing and nanotechnology
      - Nanotech and space exploration
      - Miniaturization of science
      - Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
      - Nanotechnology challenges
      - Case studies and emerging  applications

   O  Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Hardware software co-design
      - System-on-chip
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - Quality of service and scheduling
      - Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
      - System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
        quality of service support, validation technologies,
        survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
      - Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource
        constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
      - Software technologies (real-time operating systems,
        middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support,
        component-based technologies, ...)
      - Fault-tolerance
      - Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
      - Real-time network connection scheduling
      - Feed-back scheduling
      - Multiprocessor scheduling
      - Resource management
      - Scheduling algorithms and analysis
      - Real-time kernel support
      - Modeling and synthesis techniques
      - Real-time data-flow applications/computing
      - Real-time control and sensing
      - Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
      - Simulation of real-time systems
      - Multimedia and QoS support
      - Real-time middleware systems
      - Object oriented methods for real-time systems
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and emerging applications
      - Case studies

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (hra@...). email
    submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All reasonable
    typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
    to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
    of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CDES'08).
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the track.
    The track chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

    The list of co-sponsors of CDES'08 will soon be finalized which
    will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
    institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
    2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
    conference which included:

    Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
    Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
    Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
    Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
    of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
    Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
    Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
    (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
    Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
    and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
    University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
    of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
    (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

    Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
    Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
    HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
    Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
    AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
    of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
    Those interested in joining the program committee should email
    Prof. H. R. Arabnia (hra@...) the following information: Name,
    affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
    tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests.

    For the list of the members of program committee of CDES'07, refer to:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CDES07/committee
    Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders, scholars,
    researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many
    are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies,
    heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
                       (CDES'08)
    URL:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/cdes08



      
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C A L L    F O R    P A P E R S
               ===============================

    The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
                          CDES'08

   Date and Location: July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings/book.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

   O  Processor and co-processor design
   O  VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
   O  ASIC design and architectures
   O  Arithmetic circuits + Logic and circuit design
   O  Microarchitectures
   O  Power-efficient computer design and power management
   O  Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
   O  Innovative hardware/software architectures
   O  Scheduling techniques
   O  Prefetching techniques
   O  Architecture simulation systems
   O  Branch prediction
   O  Superscalar and dataflow design
   O  Interconnect and interface design
   O  Performance analysis and evaluation
   O  Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
   O  Benchmarking and measurements
   O  Quantum computing
   O  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
   O  Complexity issues
   O  Cache and memory systems
   O  Reliable architectures
   O  Computer systems design and applications
   O  High-level design methodologies
   O  Support of operating systems and languages
   O  Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
   O  Synthesis
   O  Pipelining
   O  Mixed-signal design and analysis
   O  Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
   O  FPGA-based design
   O  Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
   O  Case studies
   O  Emerging technologies

   O  Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great
interest:
      - Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
      - Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
      - Material science
      - Nanodevices and nanostructures
      - Biomolecular machinery
      - Nanomaterials
      - Nanomedicine
      - Nanobiotechnology
      - Scanning probes
      - Nanoelectronics
      - Nanosensors
      - Self-assembly
      - Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
      - Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
      - Supramolecular chemistry and technology
      - Supercomputing and nanotechnology
      - Nanotech and space exploration
      - Miniaturization of science
      - Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
      - Nanotechnology challenges
      - Case studies and emerging  applications

   O  Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Hardware software co-design
      - System-on-chip
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - Quality of service and scheduling
      - Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
      - System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
        quality of service support, validation technologies,
        survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
      - Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource
        constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
      - Software technologies (real-time operating systems,
        middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support,
        component-based technologies, ...)
      - Fault-tolerance
      - Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
      - Real-time network connection scheduling
      - Feed-back scheduling
      - Multiprocessor scheduling
      - Resource management
      - Scheduling algorithms and analysis
      - Real-time kernel support
      - Modeling and synthesis techniques
      - Real-time data-flow applications/computing
      - Real-time control and sensing
      - Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
      - Simulation of real-time systems
      - Multimedia and QoS support
      - Real-time middleware systems
      - Object oriented methods for real-time systems
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and emerging applications
      - Case studies

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 7 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    Prof. H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008 (hra@...). email
    submissions in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable.  All reasonable
    typesetting formats are acceptable (later, the authors of accepted
    papers will be asked to follow a particular typesetting format
    to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, and email address of each author as well as the name
    of the conference the paper is being submitted to (ie, CDES'08).
    The first page should also identify the name of the Contact Author
    and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that would best represent the
    content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by one member of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the co-chairs of the track.
    The track chairs will make the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready
    papers will be reviewed by one member of the program committee.

CONFERENCE SPONSORS:

    The list of co-sponsors of CDES'08 will soon be finalized which
    will include research laboratories and centers affiliated with major
    institutions.  The reputation and caliber of the co-sponsors of the
    2008 conference will be comparable to the 2007 offering of the
    conference which included:

    Academic Co-sponsors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Media Lab., MIT + Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Lab.,
    Harvard University + Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology
    Lab., Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University + Biomedical Cybernetics
    Lab., Harvard University + Texas Advanced Computing Center, University
    of Texas at Austin + Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.,
    Purdue University + Center for Computational Biology and
    Bioinformatics, Indiana University and Purdue University Indianapolis
    (IUPUI) + University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab. + BioMedical
    Informatics and Bio-Imaging Lab. of Georgia Institute of Technology
    and Emory University + Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab.,
    University of Texas at Austin + Statistical Genetics Research Group
    of Columbia University, New York + Institute for Informatics Problems
    of the Russian Academy of Sciences + University of North Dakota
    (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

    Corporate Co-sponsors: Google, Intel, and Salford Systems.
    Other Co-sponsors: Int'l Technology Inst. (ITI), GridToday, HPCwire,
    HPC Software Inc., STEM Education Society, and Hodges' Health.

MEMBERS OF PROGRAM AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

    The program committee includes members of the chapters of World
    Academy of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing;
    AI; imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The names of the members
    of the program committee will soon be posted on the web site.
    Those interested in joining the program committee should email
    Prof. H. R. Arabnia (hra@...) the following information: Name,
    affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address,
    tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests.

    For the list of the members of program committee of CDES'07, refer to:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CDES07/committee
    Many members of the program committee include renowned leaders, scholars,
    researchers, scientists and practitioners of the highest ranks; many
    are directors of research laboratories, fellows of various societies,
    heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.

IMPORTANT DATES:

    January 16, 2008:  Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design
                       (CDES'08)
    URL:
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/sites/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/cdes08



      
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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the following announcement with
those who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'08
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                        Call  For  Papers
                              and
                    Call For Session Proposals

           The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
           Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                          WORLDCOMP'08
               (composed of 25 Joint Conferences)
                July 14-17, 2008, Las Vegas, USA

You are invited to submit a paper and/or a proposal to organize
a session/workshop.  All accepted papers will be published in the
respective conference proceedings.  The Academic Co-sponsors of
WORLDCOMP'08 will soon be finalized which will include research
laboratories affiliated with major institutions (Academic Co-sponsors
of WORLDCOMP'07 included: major research laboratories at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, The
University of Texas at Austin, Purdue University, Indiana University,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Russian Academy
of Sciences, and others.  Corporate sponsors included: Google, Inc.;
Intel Corporation; and Salford Systems).

The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) is composed of the following
25 conferences (all will be held simultaneously, same location
and dates: July 14-17, 2008, USA):

o The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
   Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Grid Computing and
   Applications (GCA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary
   Methods (GEM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Machine Learning; Models,
   Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information Theory and
   Statistical Learning (ITSL'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and
   Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research
   and Practice (SERP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer
   Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
   Visualization Methods (MSV'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual
   Reality (CGVR'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services
   (SWWS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Information and Knowledge
   Engineering (IKE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business,
   Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Embedded Systems and
   Applications (ESA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
   Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Foundations of Computer
   Science (FCS'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable
   Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'08)

o The 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing
   (CIC'8)

(a link to each conference's URL can be found at
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org - the web site is currently
under construction; servers are being replaced - the link
shown above would take you to the 2007 offering of WORLDCOMP; later,
the same link would take you to the the 2008 WORLDCOMP.)

General Chair and Coordinator:

    H. R. Arabnia, PhD
    Professor, Computer Science
    Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
    The University of Georgia
    Department of Computer Science
    415 Graduate Studies Research Center
    Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA

    Tel: (706) 542-3480
    Fax: (706) 542-2966
    E-mail: hra@...

Purpose / History:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2,600 or more attendees from over 80
    countries participating in the 2008 joint conferences.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

    WORLCOMP'08 will be composed of research presentations, keynote
    lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and
    poster presentations.  In recent past, keynote and/or tutorial speakers
    included: Prof. Michael J. Flynn (Stanford U.); Prof. John H. Holland
    (U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Prof. H. J. Siegel (Colorado State U.);
    Prof. Barry Vercoe (MIT); Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (U. of California,
    Berkeley); Prof. A. K. Dunker (Indiana U. and Purdue U.); Prof. Jun Liu
    (Harvard U.); Dr. Jim Gettys (developer of X Window, ...); Dr. Chris
    Rowen (President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc.); and many other distinguished
    speakers.

Proposal for Organizing Sessions/Workshops:

    Each session will have at least 6 paper presentations from
    different authors (12 papers in the case of workshops).  The
    session chairs will be responsible for all aspects of their
    sessions; including, soliciting papers, reviewing, selecting, ...
    The names of session chairs will appear as Associate Editors in
    the conference proceedings and on the cover of the books.

    Proposals to organize sessions should include the following
    information: name and address (+ email) of proposer, title of
    session, a 100-word description of the topic of the session,
    the name of the conference the session is submitted for
    consideration, and a short description on how the session will
    be advertised (in most cases, session proposers solicit papers
    from colleagues and researchers whose work is known to the
    session proposer).  email your proposal to H. R. Arabnia (address
    is given above).  We would like to receive the proposals by
    December 10, 2007.

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their draft paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 25, 2008. email submissions in MS document
    or PDF formats are preferable (Fax or postal submissions are also
    fine.)  All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable (later,
    the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a particular
    typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited
    to 7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously
    published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The
    first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper,
    name, affiliation, postal address, email address, and telephone
    number for each author.  The first page should also identify the
    name of the Contact Author and a maximum of 5 topical keywords that
    would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally, the name
    of the conference that the paper is being submitted to must be
    stated on the first page.

    Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    impact, and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two experts
    in the field who are independent of the conference program committee.
    The referees' evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of
    the program committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of
    the track that the paper has been submitted to.  The chair will make
    the final decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed
    by one member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; AI;
    imaging science; databases; simulation; software engineering;
    embedded systems; internet and web technologies; communications;
    computer security; and bioinformatics.) The Program Committee for
    individual conferences is currently being formed.  Those interested
    in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia
    (hra@...) the following information: Name, affiliation
    and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax
    numbers, a short biography together with research interests and
    the name of the conference offering to help with.

Location of Conferences:

    The conferences will be held in the Monte Carlo hotel, Las Vegas,
    Nevada, USA (with any overflows at other near-by hotels).  This is
    a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3,000
    rooms.  It is minutes from the airport with 24-hour shuttle
    service to and from the airport.  This hotel has many recreational
    attractions, including: waterfalls, spa, pools, sunning decks, Easy
    River, wave pool, lighted tennis courts, health spa, nightly shows,
    a number of restaurants, ...  The negotiated room rate for
    conference attendees is very reasonable.  The hotel is within
    walking distance from most other attractions (recreational
    destinations, Golf courses, ...)

Important Dates:

    Dec.  10, 2007:    Proposals for organizing/chairing sessions/workshops
    Feb.  25, 2008:    Submission of papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 25, 2008:    Notification of acceptance
    April 25, 2008:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    July 14-17, 2008:  The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'08 - 25 joint conferences)

Topical Scope for each Conference:

    To receive the complete list of topics for each of the
    25 conferences, send an email to hra@... or
    wait for the conferences' url's to be constructed.

Future Announcements: If you do not wish to receive future announcements
about this event, please send an email to hra@....



      
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State and background in biogas markets worldwide. A new industry and its
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   by John Perry Barlow <barlow@...>
   Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I
come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you
of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no
sovereignty where we gather.
   We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you
with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I
declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of
the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor
do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
   Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You
have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know
us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do
not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction
project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our
collective actions.
   You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you
create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics,
or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be
obtained by any of your impositions.
   You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this
claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist.
Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them
and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This
governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our
world is different.
   Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself,
arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world
that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
   We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice
accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
   We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs,
no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or
conformity.
   Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context
do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
   Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by
physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and
the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed
across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent
cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able
to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the
solutions you are attempting to impose.
   In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications
Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of
Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams
must now be born anew in us.
   You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world
where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your
bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to
confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of
humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the
global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air
upon which wings beat.
   In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you
are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the
frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but
they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
   Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves
by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself
throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial
product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may
create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global
conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
   These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position
as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the
authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves
immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our
bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our
thoughts.
   We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane
and fair than the world your governments have made before.
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Biogas Plant Markets boom Worldwide in Municipalities, Industry and
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and expected to increase over 25 billion euro by 2020. But the competition is
growing fast too. The key is the knowledge in biotechnology, molecular science,
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   Helmut Kaiser Consultancy released a new study about the markets for biogas
plants worldwide.
   The worldmarkets for Biogas and Biogas Plants increase since some years with
20 to 30
percent depending on the country. Germany as a technology leader reached in 2006
about 700 million euro with 400 companies, 100 companies offering the whole
value chain, the export is between 10 and 15 percent. Only 2006 are 900 plants
build and reach about 3.600 plants in total. It is expected a market size of 7.5
billion euro by 2020 for plants, 30 percent export and 85 000 jobs in germany
only. The worldmarket is about 2 billion euro in 2006 and expected over 25
billion by 2020. But the competition is growing too, worldwide. USA and China
show a much greater potential as germany and europe. Many plants are low tech
and easy to reproduce and design. The key is the knowledge in biotechnology,
molecular science and optimization in the future. Biogas (
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The total energy mix of the future will be more regenerative and sustainable.
The generation and storage of renewable energy will be the fastest growing
sector in energy market for next 20 years. The market volume of renewable energy
worldwide will increase from US$ 95.8 billion in 2007 to US$ 124.4 billion in
2010 and reach US$ 198.1 billion in 2015. These figures and developments are
based on the whole value chain.

   Biogas power plants are a combination of anaerobic digestion systems with
associated electricity generators such as gas turbines or gas engines. The
electricity they produce is classified as renewable or green energy and if sold
into the national grid attract subsidies.
In the last 20 years, biogas utilisation been successful in wastewater treatment
plants, industrial processing applications, landfill and the agricultural
sector.

   The future increase use of biogas is a strong goal in most countries, not only
because is it a renewable energy source but it will help to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, water pollution and soil degradation and last not least it will
change agriculture sectors in many countries worldwide to produce partly energy.

This study is the first research worldwide for biogas plants in 50 countries
with the potentials and developments to 2030, with the technologies and
competition worldwide.

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IEEE-JMI
   presents
   ENCOMIUM-07
   An intellectual odyssey
   featuring

   RATIONALE
   The technical paper presentation contest

     The Technical Paper Presentation Contest is the platform for young engineers
to bring their innovations and ideas to light and will hopefully prove to be an
extortive milieu for them to be at their creative best. Participants are
expected to pour in from all over India.


   Rules and regulations:

   1. The paper should be from one of these broad categories:

   Electronics: VLSI, space way communication, wi-fi technology, smart sensor,
embedded technology, nanotechnology, fiber optics and other related topics
   Computers: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, DNA
computing, genetic algorithms, e-security and other related topic
   Electrical: Power plant instrumentation, power quality control, e-metering,
SCADA/EMS systems and related topics.

     2.  You can mail the soft copy of your technical paper before 8th
August,2007 and on getting shortlisted you can bring with you the authenticated
hard copy on final day.

     3.  The presentation should not exceed 10 minutes.

     4.  A soft copy of presentation and paper can be mailed to the email address
give below.

   In case you want to mail hard copy authenticated by respective HOD,the address
for mailing the hard copies is:
Prof. Mini S Thomas
H.O.D
Department of electrical engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi
Pin-110025

   For enquiries,registration and entries:
encomium07_rationale@...

   Coordinators:
Hitender Vigamal (+91 9953203440)
Pooja Aggarwal
Awanish Kumar (+91-9911056545)

   *Accomodation available*

   *LOTS OF PRIZES TO BE WON*

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IEEE-JMI
   presents
   ENCOMIUM-07
   An intellectual odyssey
   featuring

   RATIONALE
   The technical paper presentation contest

     The Technical Paper Presentation Contest is the platform for young engineers
to bring their innovations and ideas to light and will hopefully prove to be an
extortive milieu for them to be at their creative best. Participants are
expected to pour in from all over India.


   Rules and regulations:

   1. The paper should be from one of these broad categories:

   Electronics: VLSI, space way communication, wi-fi technology, smart sensor,
embedded technology, nanotechnology, fiber optics and other related topics
   Computers: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, DNA
computing, genetic algorithms, e-security and other related topic
   Electrical: Power plant instrumentation, power quality control, e-metering,
SCADA/EMS systems and related topics.

     2.  You can mail the soft copy of your technical paper before 8th
August,2007 and on getting shortlisted you can bring with you the authenticated
hard copy on final day.

     3.  The presentation should not exceed 10 minutes.

     4.  A soft copy of presentation and paper can be mailed to the email address
give below.

   In case you want to mail hard copy authenticated by respective HOD,the address
for mailing the hard copies is:
Prof. Mini S Thomas
H.O.D
Department of electrical engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Jamia Millia Islamia
New Delhi
Pin-110025

   For enquiries,registration and entries:
encomium07_rationale@...

   Coordinators:
Hitender Vigamal (+91 9953203440)
Pooja Aggarwal
Awanish Kumar (+91-9911056545)

   *Accomodation available*

   *LOTS OF PRIZES TO BE WON*

   FOR INFORMATION REGARDING OTHER EVENTS VISIT: www.ieee.org/go/jmi




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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                        Call For Participation

                            WORLDCOMP'07
             The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'07 Congress.  WORLDCOMP'07 is
composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and
workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 25-28, 2007.  Attendees will have full access to all conferences'
sessions, tracks, and tutorials.  See below for: the complete list of
joint-conferences, list of sponsors, registration information, hotel
information, and some highlights.

LIST OF JOINT-CONFERENCES:

    o Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'07)
    o Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'07)
    o Computer Design (CDES'07)
    o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
    o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
    o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
    o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'07)
    o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
    o Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'07)
    o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
    o Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)
    o Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
    o Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
    o Multimedia Systems & Applications (MSA'07)
    o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
    o Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS'07)
    o Security & Management (SAM'07)
    o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
    o Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
    o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Inf. Sys., & e-Government (EEE'07)
    o Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'07)
    o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Eng. (FECS'07)
    o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
    o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'07)
    o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

SPONSORS: (partial list)

    Academic Co-Sponsors include:
    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
      MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
      Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
      Massachusetts)
    - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
      Austin (Austin, Texas)
    - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
      Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
    - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics of
      Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana)
    - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory
      (Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia)
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
    - University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

    Corporate Sponsors include:
    - Google, Inc., USA
    - Intel Corporation, USA

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

    To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/registration
    The complete WORLDCOMP'07 schedule will be available at the following
    site in early June:
    http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws/program

HOTEL RESERVATION:

    You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte
    Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that
    you mention the Group Code "XWRLD" (XWRLD is the keyword that the
    hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the Congress).
    You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is
    very close to being fully booked.  The negotiated room rate is $79
    + tax per night for the duration of the conference.  However, at
    this point only a very few rooms are available for reservation.
    So, if you were unable to get a room at this hotel, then you should
    try other nearby hotels.

KEYNOTE LECTURES: (this is only a partial list)

o. Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Humans in Real and Virtual Space

o. Prof. John H. Holland
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Innovation

o. Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
    Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
    Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine

o. Prof. A. K. Dunker
    Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
    Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
    Alternative Splicing

o. Prof. Jun Liu
    MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    Unraveling the Mystery of How Genes are Turned on and off Using
    Various Statistical and Computer Techniques

o. Prof. Joydeep Ghosh
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
    Schlumberger Distinguished Centennial Chair Professor
    Simultaneous Clustering and Modeling for Large Scale Data Mining Applications

o. Steve Leibson
    Tensilica, Inc.
    Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century

o. Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
    University of Southern California, USA
    Scientific Computing Using Reconfigurable Hardware

PARTIAL LIST OF PLANNED TUTORIALS appears below (tutorial attendance is
free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences):

o. Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed
    Computing Systems
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS,
    Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
    Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining
    Applications
    Ashu M. G. Solo
    Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

o. Systems Biology in present day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks,
    Ticks and Traps
    Prashanth Suravajhala
    Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

o. Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
    Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
    University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
    Dr. Michael L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director
    International College, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
    Amanda Birmingham
    Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Introduction to Game Programming
    Lakshmi Prayaga
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
    Dr. Henk Wymeersch
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
    Dr. Eamonn Keogh
    University of California - Riverside, California, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007
    Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

o. Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
    S. Vijay Anand
    General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)



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Dear researcher,
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Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time
PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene
Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is:

- New papers on PCR efficiency
- Update of the qPCR Talk and Webinar Page - PODCASTS
- qPCR data analysis
- Update on qPCR INFOPORTAL
- qPCR Symposium USA in October/November 2007
- STILL AVAILIBILITY  =>  Real-time qPCR course from 2nd-6th July 2007
in Freising, Germany

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http://www.gene-quantification.de/efficiency03.html

Efficiency Overview article - Comprehensive Algorithm for Quantitative
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sheng Zhao and Russell D. Fernald, 2005    download PDF

Technical Note - Evaluation of Real-Time PCR Amplification
Efficiencies to Detect PCR Inhibitors
Elias J. Kontanis and Floyd A. Reed, 2006    download PDF

Estimation of the reaction efficiency in polymerase chain reaction
Nadia Lalam, 2006     download PDF

Molelling the PCR amplification process by a size-dependent branching
process and estimation of the efficiency
Lalam et al., 2004   download PDF

Statistical Inference for Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction Using
a Hidden Markov Model: A Bayesian Approach       Lalam, 2007
download PDF

Evaluation of absolute quantitation by nonlinear regression in
probe-based real-time PCR
Goll et al., 2006   download PDF

Mathematical Model of Real-Time PCR Kinetics
Gevertz et al., 2005    download PDF

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qPCR data analysis

http://www.gene-quantification.de/main-bioinf.shtml


Statistical analysis of real-time PCR data.

BMC Bioinformatics. 2006 (7): 85.   Yuan JS, Reed A, Chen F, Stewart
CN Jr.
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996, USA.


Data Analysis Methods

There are two methods, both equally valid, for analyzing data obtained
from real time PCR: Relative Standard Curve Method and Comparative CT
Method. The first, relative standard curve method, is useful for
investigators that have a limited number of cDNA samples and a large
number of genes of interest. The comparative CT method is useful for
investigators who have a large number of cDNA samples and a limited
number of genes of interest (RRC Core Genomics Facility, University of
Illinois at Chicago)


Data Analysis Methods
- Relative Standard Curve Method
- Comparative CT Method
- Data Analysis


Tools and Technologies for Real-Time PCR

Biocompare's qPCR Tutorial presents researchers with an overview of
real-time qPCR, identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the
various detection technologies, outlines the key issues for optimizing
experimental design and offers a brief description of the various
methods used for data analysis.


Evaluation of real-time PCR data.

Vaerman JL, Saussoy P, Ingargiola I.   J Biol Regul Homeost Agents.
2004 18(2): 212-214.
UCL, Cliniques Saint Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium.

If real-time PCR is to be of much worth to its user, some idea
regarding the reliability of its data is essential. We discuss here
some of the problems associated with interpreting numerical real-time
PCR data that lend themselves to analytical evaluation. We translate
into the language of molecular biology some of the criteria which are
used to evaluate the performance of any new method (linearity,
precision, specificity, limit of detection and quantification).


Real-time PCR gene expression profiling
Mikael Kubista, Björn Sjögreen, Amin Forootan, Radek Sindelka and Jiri
Jonák, and José Manuel Andrade

Real-time PCR has rapidly become the preferred technique for
quantitative analysis of nucleic acids. Its superior sensitivity,
reproducibility and dynamic range make it the preferred choice for
expression profiling in scientific, as well as routine, applications.
     => Link to GenEx software


Statistical practice in high-throughput screening data analysis.

Malo N, Hanley JA, Cerquozzi S, Pelletier J, Nadon R.  Nat Biotechnol.
2006 24(2): 167-75.
McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, 740 avenue du
Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

High-throughput screening is an early critical step in drug discovery.
Its aim is to screen a large number of diverse chemical compounds to
identify candidate 'hits' rapidly and accurately. Few statistical
tools are currently available, however, to detect quality hits with a
high degree of confidence. We examine statistical aspects of data
preprocessing and hit identification for primary screens. We focus on
concerns related to positional effects of wells within plates, choice
of hit threshold and the importance of minimizing false-positive and
false-negative rates. We argue that replicate measurements are needed
to verify assumptions of current methods and to suggest data analysis
strategies when assumptions are not met. The integration of replicates
with robust statistical methods in primary screens will facilitate the
discovery of reliable hits, ultimately improving the sensitivity and
specificity of the screening process.


Addressing fluorogenic real-time qPCR inhibition using the novel
custom Excel file system to attain consistently high fidelity qPCR
reactions

Jack M. Gallup and Mark R. Ackermann
Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University. Ames, Iowa 50011-1250. USA
Biol. Proced. Online 2006 (8): 87-152.

The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss fluorogenic real-time
quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) inhibition and to
introduce/define a novel Microsoft Excel-based file system which
provides a way to detect and avoid inhibition, and enables
investigators to consistently design dynamically-sound, truly
LOG-linear qPCR reactions very quickly. The qPCR problems this
invention solves are universal to all qPCR reactions, and it performs
all necessary qPCR set-up calculations in about 52 seconds (using a
pentium 4 processor) for up to seven qPCR targets and seventy-two
samples at a time – calculations that commonly take capable
investigators days to finish. We have named this custom Excel-based
file system "FocusField2-6GallupqPCRSet-upTool-001" (FF2-6-001 qPCR
set-up tool), and are in the process of transforming it into
professional qPCR set-up software to be made available in 2007. The
current prototype is already fully functional.

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INFOPORTAL Protocols on qPCR INFOPORTAL

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Protocols online is a resource for protocols, including authoritative,
peer-reviewed 'protocols and an interactive network.

NEW  => qPCR and Molecular Biology - Discussion Forums

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Upcoming Events World-wide academic and commercial qPCR Events
http://events.gene-quantification.info/

Symposia, Meetings, Conferences, Workshops, Seminars, Online-Seminars,
qPCR Education Program, ...etc...
Please submit your qPCR event here  =>  events@...


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qPCR Symposium USA
http://www.qPCRsymposium.com

Symposium Focus:
Markers, Stem Cells, Single Cell, siRNA, miRNA, Diagnostics,
Immuno-qPCR, Expression Profiling,
Poster Presentation, Workshops in qPCR

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WORKSHOP


Opening Opening of TATAA Biocenter, Prague  =>
http://www.img.cas.cz/ge/TATAAPrague.html
Real time open qPCR course from 21th - 25th May 2007  =>  download flyer


TATAA Biocenter Germany - qPCR Application workshops

At the TATAA Biocenter Germany we offer qPCR application workshops,
the 3-day Core Module and a 2-day Biostatistics Module.  qPCR courses
are held in regularly in Göteborg, Sweden, in English and in
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, in German and English, and in Prague,
Czech Republic in English and Czech.
Depending on the occasion the workshop language and the different
prices may apply. Further customized workshops and specialized
trainings will be held as well across Europe and world-wide. TATAA
Biocenter Germany courses are held in cooperation with the Institute
of Physiology, located at the Technical University of Munich, in
Freising-Weihenstephan, near Munich, very close to the Munich Airport
(MUC). For more information and to register for the qPCR application
workshops, please see our web page:

http://tataa.gene-quantification.info/

Course Occasions 2007:
3-day qPCR Core Module  (Mon. - Wed.)    and     2-day BioStatistics
Module (Thu. - Fri.)

2 - 6th July 2007  (in Freising, Germany, English language)
24 - 28th September 2007  (in Freising, Germany, Kurs wird in DEUTSCH
gehalten, German language)
22 - 26th October 2007  (in Freising, Germany, English language)
26 - 30th November 2007 (in Freising, Germany, English language)
Please register here  =>  http://www.tataa.com/



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hkc22.com Press Release:

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   Globalization puts pressure on companies and countries. New technologies like
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   (by hkc22.com) The worldmarkets for sustainable technologies will attain 5
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   by 2020 from 1.6 trillion today. This include enviromental technologies and
renewable energies with 1.2 trillion US Dollar in 2020 from today 616 billion.
The highest growth rates are in China with over 15 percent per year from a low
level today.The growth of efficiency
   is between 0.5 and 2 percent per year depending on the country.

   Europe account for 20 percent and US for 15 percent with low growth rates and
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   account for 12 percent with high growth rates. Increasing water and health
problems from scarcity, pollution and contamination are the key driving factors
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   beside of the climate change and energy prices. These are the results of a new
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   This business is a global business with fiercer local competition and
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   By 2020 more then 10 million people can find a job in these markets.

   There is a strong trend towards economical solutions and new technologies but
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"additive and integrated technologies" account for 20 percent and " zero
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   Environmental industry is a highly technology and innovation related
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   The ideal of environmental technology is zero-emission. All the waste will be
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I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

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Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                        Call For Participation

                            WORLDCOMP'07
             The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location: June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

This is an invitation to attend WORLDCOMP'07 Congress.  WORLDCOMP'07 is
composed of a number of tracks (joint-conferences, tutorials, and
workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 25-28, 2007.  Attendees will have full access to all conferences'
sessions, tracks, and tutorials.  See below for: the complete list of
joint-conferences, list of sponsors, registration information, hotel
information, and some highlights.

LIST OF JOINT-CONFERENCES:

    o Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA'07)
    o Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'07)
    o Computer Design (CDES'07)
    o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
    o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
    o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
    o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'07)
    o Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
    o Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'07)
    o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
    o Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)
    o Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
    o Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
    o Multimedia Systems & Applications (MSA'07)
    o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
    o Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS'07)
    o Security & Management (SAM'07)
    o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
    o Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
    o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Inf. Sys., & e-Government (EEE'07)
    o Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'07)
    o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Eng. (FECS'07)
    o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
    o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'07)
    o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

SPONSORS: (partial list)

    Academic Co-Sponsors include:
    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
      MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
      Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
      Massachusetts)
    - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
      Austin (Austin, Texas)
    - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
      Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
    - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics of
      Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana)
    - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    - BioMedical Informatics & Bio-Imaging Laboratory
      (Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, Georgia)
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
    - University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

    Corporate Sponsors include:
    - Google, Inc., USA
    - Intel Corporation, USA

REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

    To attend the congress, use the following online registration link:
    http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/registration
    The complete WORLDCOMP'07 schedule will be available at the following
    site in early June:
    http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws/program

HOTEL RESERVATION:

    You are to reserve your hotel room directly by calling Monte
    Carlo Resort at 1-702-730-7000 or 1-702-730-7777. Make sure that
    you mention the Group Code "XWRLD" (XWRLD is the keyword that the
    hotel will use to handle the reserved block of rooms for the Congress).
    You should reserve your room as soon as possible since our block is
    very close to being fully booked.  The negotiated room rate is $79
    + tax per night for the duration of the conference.  However, at
    this point only a very few rooms are available for reservation.
    So, if you were unable to get a room at this hotel, then you should
    try other nearby hotels.

KEYNOTE LECTURES: (this is only a partial list)

o. Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Humans in Real and Virtual Space

o. Prof. John H. Holland
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Innovation

o. Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
    Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
    Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine

o. Prof. A. K. Dunker
    Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
    Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
    Alternative Splicing

o. Prof. Jun Liu
    MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    Unraveling the Mystery of How Genes are Turned on and off Using
    Various Statistical and Computer Techniques

o. Prof. Joydeep Ghosh
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
    Schlumberger Distinguished Centennial Chair Professor
    Simultaneous Clustering and Modeling for Large Scale Data Mining Applications

o. Steve Leibson
    Tensilica, Inc.
    Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century

o. Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna
    University of Southern California, USA
    Scientific Computing Using Reconfigurable Hardware

PARTIAL LIST OF PLANNED TUTORIALS appears below (tutorial attendance is
free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences):

o. Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed
    Computing Systems
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS,
    Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Intelligent Pattern Recognition and Applications
    Prof. Patrick Wang, IAPR Fellow
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining
    Applications
    Ashu M. G. Solo
    Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

o. Systems Biology in present day Bioinformatics: Tools, Tricks,
    Ticks and Traps
    Prashanth Suravajhala
    Roskilde University, Greater Copenhagen, Denmark

o. Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
    Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
    University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
    Dr. Michael L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director
    International College, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
    Amanda Birmingham
    Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Introduction to Game Programming
    Lakshmi Prayaga
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
    Dr. Henk Wymeersch
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
    Dr. Eamonn Keogh
    University of California - Riverside, California, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007
    Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

o. Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
    S. Vijay Anand
    General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)



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Dear researcher,
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Our newsletter informs about the latest news in quantitative real-time
PCR (qPCR and qRT-PCR), which are compiled and summarised on the Gene
Quantification homepage. The focus of this newsletter issue is:

- Cluster analysis in real-time PCR
- Error propagation in PCR
- Update of the qPCR Talk and Webinar page
- Online or invisible!
- Real time open qPCR course from 21th - 25th May 2007 at the TATAA
Biocenter Prague
- Real time open qPCR course from 2nd - 6th July 2007 in Freising,
Germany

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Clustering is often one of the first steps in gene expression
analysis. How do clustering algorithms work, which ones should we use
and what can we expect from them?

Our ability to gather genome-wide expression data has far outstripped
the ability of our puny human brains to process the raw data. We can
distill the data down to a more comprehensible level by subdividing
the genes into a smaller number of categories and then analyzing
those. This is where clustering comes in.
The goal of clustering is to subdivide a set of items (in our case,
genes) in such a way that similar items fall into the same cluster,
whereas dissimilar items fall in different clusters. This brings up
two questions: first, how do we decide what is similar; and second,
how do we use this to cluster the items? The fact that these two
questions can often be answered independently contributes to the
bewildering variety of clustering algorithms.
Gene expression clustering allows an open-ended exploration of the
data, without getting lost among the thousands of individual genes.
Beyond simple visualization, there are also some important
computational applications for gene clusters. For example, Tavazoie et
al. used clustering to identify cis-regulatory sequences in the
promoters of tightly coexpressed genes. Gene expression clusters also
tend to be significantly enriched for specific functional
categories—which may be used to infer a functional role for unknown
genes in the same cluster.
In this primer, I focus specifically on clustering genes that show
similar expression patterns across a number of samples, rather than
clustering the samples themselves (or both). I hope to leave you with
some understanding of clustering in general and three of the more
popular algorithms in particular. Where possible, I also attempt to
provide some practical guidelines for applying cluster analysis to
your own gene expression data sets.

http://www.gene-quantification.de/bioinf-subpage2.html


- How does gene expression clustering work?
- Evaluation of gene-expression clustering via mutual information
distance measure.
- How to infer gene networks from expression profiles.
- Distribution-insensitive cluster analysis in SAS on real-time PCR
gene expression data of steadily expressed genes.
- A new molecular breast cancer subclass defined from a large scale
real-time quantitative RT-PCR study.
- Transcriptional regulatory network analysis of developing human
erythroid progenitors reveals patterns of coregulation and potential
transcriptional regulators.
- An approach for clustering gene expression data with error information.
- Expression profiles and biological function.
- Smoking and cancer-related gene expression in bronchial epithelium
and non-small-cell lung cancers.


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Error propagation in PCR:

http://bioinformatics.gene-quantification.info/

- A general model of error-prone PCR.
- Error propagation in relative real-time reverse transcription
polymerase chain reaction quantification models: The balance between
accuracy and precision.
- A quantitative model of error accumulation during PCR amplification.
- Real Time PCR:  A useful new approach?  Statistical Problems?


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Power Calculator - NEW links !

This article focuses on how to do meaningful power calculations and
sample-size determination for common study designs. There are 3
important guiding principles. First, certain types of retrospective
power calculations should be avoided, because they add no new
information to an analysis. Second, effect size should be specified on
the actual scale of measurement, not on a standardized scale. Third,
rarely can a definitive study be done without first doing a pilot
study. Some simple examples as well as a complex example are given.
Power calculations are illustrated using Java applets developed by the
author.

http://www.gene-quantification.de/bioinf-subpage1.html#power


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TALKS Update of the qPCR Talk and Webinar page

A lot of interesting TALKs, WEBINARs, SLIDE SHOWs, and PODCASTs from
various speakers, companies, qPCR Events, and journals (Nature and
Science) are FREE for download. Have a look and you will definitely
something interesting for your scientific work !

http://talks.gene-quantification.info/

http://webinar.gene-quantification.info/


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Climate Change and Nanotechnolgy  Drive Food Industry Transformation Worldwide
   New Study From Helmut Kaiser Consultancy on Nanotechnology in Food,
Foodprocessing , Agriculture, Packaging and Consumption from 2007 to 2015 and
2040

   Zurich and Beijing office of hkc22.com, May 2007.
   The latest study by hkc22.com shows that food production and consumption will
change dramatically within the next 20 years. Water problems, energy use and
climate change are the key reasons besides increasing population from 6 billion
to expected 9 billion.





   More than 60% of the water used worldwide is for food production. More than
the 20% of the methane comes from agriculture and stock breeding. 30% of the
total transportation is food and contributes to global warming. The total
transport counts for 60% of the world’s CO2 emissions.





   Millions of people today do not have enough food and it will be worse in the
future. For many people food are not available, although there are enough
supplies somewhere else. Most people around the world will welcome the
possibility to shape food on a molecular level, because it will be locally
available everywhere around the world.





   More and more food companies and agriculture are aware about this future
development and work on concepts to enter the science and technologies. Most
companies do not talk about this development because the consumer is afraid.

     2040 will be the common use of nanoproduced food, which has the correct
nutritional composition and the same taste and texture of organically produced
food, means that the availability of food is no longer affected by limited
resources, bad crop weather, water problems or others.



   Helmut Kaiser Consultancy has produced in 1999 the first analyses, in
2004/2005 the second and in 2007 the current level of nano food  research
portfolio worldwide, estimates on possible areas and timeframes for
commercialization, and has a deep look at potential benefits and risks. Explain
applications, markets and developments to 2040. This book has more then 300
pages.



   Nanotechnology will have an impact on the food industry, from how food is
grown and produced, processed to how it is packaged, transported and consumed.
Companies are developing nanomaterials that will make a difference not only in
the taste of food, but also in food safety, and the health benefits food
delivers. Nanotechnology will transform the entire food industry in the next 20
years. In agriculture, it portends various applications aimed at reducing
pesticide and water use, improving plant and animal breeding, and creating
nano-bioindustrial products.



   A report last year by the Helmut Kaiser Consultancy estimated that the
worldwide nanotech food market may total $20.4 billion by 2010 and increase the
speed of growth.



   While there is lots of opportunities for using nanotechnology to improve food
production, packaging, and quality, there is also some concern about how this
will play out. However this developement is part of our molecular future.



   Nanotechnology involves creating and manipulating organic and inorganic matter
at the nanoscale. It promises to provide the means for designing nanomaterials;
materials with tailor-made physical, chemical and biological properties
controlled by defined molecular structures and dynamics. The present molecular
biology techniques of genetic modification of crops are already forms of what
has been termed nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can provide for the future
development of far more precise and effective methods of, and other forms of,
manipulation of food polymers and polymeric assemblages to provide tailor-made
improvements to food quality and food safety. Nanotechnology promises not only
the creation of novel and precisely defined material properties, it also
promises that these materials will have self-assembling, self-healing and
maintaining properties.

     Some example applications:



   NanoFood:

   Nanocapsules and nano-objets for "on demand" preservatives, enriched food,
flavour, smell, taste and colours

   Interactive food: attractive surface treatment, glaziers and colours,

   Improvement of food safety and quality, Extension of products shelf-life

   Nanotechnology for Food processing

   Nanocontrol of healthy digestion tube and micro-flora, digestion more
compatible food

   Improved cooking, control of food ingredients

   Alternative feeding : transmucosal, skin etc..

   Special Food: Hospital Food, Space Food, Hot and Cold areas Food

   Controlled extraction and release nanoparticles

   Nanocarriers for food and delivery of nutrients

   and more...



   Packaging:

   Nanotechnology gas, UV barriers, mechanically and temperature reinforced foils
and packaging (nanoclays, nanoparticles, nanopolymers, composites, nanocavities
and strings), anti-microbial, breathable, multifunctional packaging

   Magnetic nanocomposite for tag sensors

   Nano-particle filled polymers

   Enhancement of durability and usability of plastic packaging

   Nano-additives for improved functionality (strength,barriers, water
resistance, absorbency)

   Nanoprinted, Intelligent packaging, Controlled Release, Nano-additives,
Nanocoding of plastics and paper materials for authentication& identification
purposes

   Radio Frequency Identification RFID, Monitoring Tagging, Trade Mark & Fraud
protection, improved supply chain efficiency, nanoBarcodes

   In situ sensor food quality monitoring (eg. colour), control and
nutraceuticals delivery, Paper and plastics with sensing ability, Portable
DNA/protein chips for food quality tests

   Special Beverage packaging

   Fibre coatings with polymer nanocomposites

   Extreme condition packaging (hot, cold, aerospace areas)

   Self Cleaning Packaging and Antibacterial Productions Site Surfaces

   and more..



   NanoAgriculture:

   Nanotechnology for Controlled Environment Agriculture: "smart" pesticides
delivery, Control of Crops, Animal Food and Health, control of microbial and
chemical contamination, complete plant health monitoring

   Extreme conditions agriculture (Space, Cold, Hot areas)

   and more..

   for more
   http://www.hkc22.com/nanofood2040.html

   Helmut Kaiser Consultancy, Zurich and Beijing
   email: hkc22@...
   telefon 0049 171 5481300
              0049 7071 67100
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Call For Papers - Deadline:  May 1, 2007

                            WORLDCOMP'07
             The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
             Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing

          Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA
          http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws

You are invited to submit a paper (see instructions below).

WORLDCOMP'07 is composed of a number of tracks (joint conferences, tutorials,
and workshops); all will be held simultaneously, same location and dates:
June 25-28, 2007.  See http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws
for the complete list of joint conferences.

This is a Call For Papers for publication in the Final Edition of the
conference proceedings.  All papers submitted in response to this announcement
will be evaluated for publication in the Final Edition of the proceedings,
which will go to press soon after the conference.  This announcement is ONLY
for those who missed the opportunity to submit their papers in response to
earlier announcements (authors who have already been notified that their
papers have been accepted or not accepted should ignore this announcement.)

Important Dates:

    May 1, 2007:       Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    May 20, 2007:      Notification of acceptance/rejection
    June 1, 2007:      Registration
    June 25-28, 2007:  WORLDCOMP'07 Congress
    July 10, 2007:     Camera-Ready Papers Due

Academic Sponsors (partial list):

    - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
      MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
    - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
      Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
      Massachusetts)
    - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
      Austin (Austin, Texas)
    - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
      Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
    - Center for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics of
      Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana)
    - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
    - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
      Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
    - University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, North Dakota)

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers (no more than 8
    pages, single spaced and font size of 10 to 12 - all reasonable
    typesetting formats are acceptable) to:   hra@...

    Authors should write the following in the subject header of their email:
        "Submission to Final Edition of Proceedings" + name of conference.

    Papers should be attached to emails and must be either in Word Doc or PDF
    formats.

    Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for
    publication elsewhere.  The first page of the paper should include the title
    of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, and email address for each
    author.  The first page should also include the name of the conference the
    paper is being submitted to (the list of conferences appears below).
    Accepted papers will be published in the final edition of the respective
    proceedings/books.

    All submissions will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity,
    and soundness.  Each paper will be refereed by two researchers in the
    topical area.

    The authors of accepted papers will later be asked to follow particular
    typing instructions to prepare their final paper for publication.

List of Conferences:

      o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
(PDPTA'07)
      o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07)
      o Computer Design (CDES'07)
      o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
      o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
      o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
      o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications (MLMTA'07)
      o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
      o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'07)
      o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
      o Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV'07)
      o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
      o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
      o Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA'07)
      o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
      o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'07)
      o Security and Management (SAM'07)
      o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
      o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
      o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, & e-Government
(EEE'07)
      o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'07)
      o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'07)
      o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
      o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07)
      o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

Keynote Lectures: (this is a partial list)

o. Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    Humans in Real and Virtual Space

o. Prof. John H. Holland
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
    Innovation

o. Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
    Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
    Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery of Human Genome and Competitive
    Genomes, Past, Future, and the Impact on the Science and Medicine

o. Prof. A. K. Dunker
    Indiana University and Purdue University, USA
    Protein Intrinsic Disorder, Cell Signaling, Drug Discovery, and
    Alternative Splicing

o. Prof. Jun Liu
    MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
    Unraveling the Mystery of How Genes are Turned on and off Using
    Various Statistical and Computer Techniques

o. Steve Leibson
    Tensilica, Inc.
    Challenges in Consumer Electronics for 21st Century

Partial list of planned tutorials appears below (tutorial attendance is
free to registered attendees of worldcomp and all its associated conferences):

o. Robust Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed
    Computing Systems
    Prof. H. J. Siegel
    Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of ECE and Professor of CS,
    Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC)
    Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Developing Enterprise Web Services and Mobile/Wireless Systems
    Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
    Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:00pm)

o. Introduction to Uncertainty and Fuzzy Logic with Data Mining
    Applications
    Ashu M. G. Solo
    Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA
    Date: June 25, 2007 (5:00pm - 6:00pm)

o. Real-Time Image and Video Processing: From Research to Reality
    Prof. Nasser Kehtarnavaz
    University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Moving On, Moving Online That Is: An Introduction to Teaching Online
    Dr. Michael L. Nelson
    School of Technology Graduate Program Director
    International College, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Computational Challenges in RNAi Gene Silencing
    Amanda Birmingham
    Dharmacon, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Bioinformatics Manager, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Introduction to Game Programming
    Lakshmi Prayaga
    University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA
    Date: June 26, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Factor Graphs for Advanced Algorithm Design in Wireless Communications
    Dr. Henk Wymeersch
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Data Mining in Time Series and Multimedia Databases
    Dr. Eamonn Keogh
    University of California - Riverside, California, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007
    Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

o. Cryptographic Features and Applications in Java (and C++)
    Prof. Ray Kresman
    Bowling Green State University, USA
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

o. Mobile Terminal Software Architecture - Present and Future
    S. Vijay Anand
    General Manager, SASKEN Communication Technologies Limited - CTO Team, India
    Date: June 27, 2007 (6:00pm - 9:30pm)

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Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 4, 2007

      The 2007 International Conference on Modeling,
      Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)

     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

URL:  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/MSV07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Simulation languages
   O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation of semiconductors and microelectronics
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in nanotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 4, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    MSV'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    March 4, 2007:     Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    April 4, 2007:     Notification of acceptance
    April 27, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Modeling,
                       Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)



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Extended Paper Submission Deadline:  March 4, 2007

     The 2007 International Conference on Scientific
                 Computing (CSC'07)
     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

URL:  http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CSC07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of CSC'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Partial differential equations
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Ordinary differential equations
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
   O  Overlapping and nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic Data Processing
   O  Multi-level methods
   O  Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Inversion problems in Geophysics
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 4, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    CSC'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    March 4, 2007:     Submission of full/draft papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    April 4, 2007:     Notification of acceptance
    April 27, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Scientific
                       Computing (CSC'07)



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New Study:Renewable Energy Markets Worldwide 2015
   driven by Climate Change with high increase.
    Nanotechnology is undoubtedly one of the key technologies beside of energy
   efficiency
   (hkc22.com)The energy  mix of the future will be more  regenerative and
sustainable. The generation and storage of renewable energy will be the fastest
growing sector in energy market for next 20 years. The market volume of
renewable energy worldwide will increase from US$ 95.8 billion in 2007 to US$
124.4 billion in 2010 and reach US$ 198.1 billion in 2015. These figures and
developments are based on the whole value chain.The energy
   efficiency will increase by 1 to 3 percent per year and there will be more
then 120 000  direct employments by 2010  and two times more indirect.

   The major market driving forces come from three aspects.
   Climate change and economical damage depending on the country between 1 and 5
percent
   of the gross domestic product.
  The governmental policy and social awareness. In many countries, environmental
protection and energy security are the key political concerns which favour the
use of clean energy. In most countries governments sponsor programs for using
hydropower, wind power and biomass as well as set regulations & standards for
emission so that biofuel, solar energy, hydrogen based energy and other
environmental friendly energy are adopted.
Second is the pricing factor. Whereas the oil and gas price is rising in the
long term and extremely volatile, the price for renewable energy is stably going
downward. The material benefits will naturally attract more and more industrial
and residential consumers.
Both of these two driving forces are finally based on the development of
technology. Only when the technology enables large scale production and
competitive costs, is the commercial application possible. Nanotechnology and
nano-bio-info converging technologies will be the key enabling technology for
renewable energy market during next 20 years. Nanotechnology and converging
technologies can modify the molecular structure so that more energy can be
stored, transformed and utilised. Their application will largely improve the
performance-cost ratio of solar energy, biofuel and fuel cell. These sectors
will also experience the fastest growth thanks to technological development.
   Although fuel cell stores energy rather than produces energy, it plays a major
role in the future renewable energy industry. Through minimization, fuel cell
can store huge amount of energy within a small volume so that the energy can be
easily transported, distributed and utilised in various locations. This will
solve the biggest problem of utilising renewable energy, namely the remoteness
between energy production and application. Nanotechnology is undoubtedly one of
the key technologies to commercializing fuel cell.
   As to the regional development, Europe and North America are today’s leaders
in technology and in market share. Yet, developing countries such as China,
India and Brazil are catching up rapidly, or even becoming leaders in certain
sector. On the one hand, these countries’ industrial boom requires more energy
supply; on the other hand, the huge land area and sufficient natural energy
resources in these countries provide ideal conditions for utilizing renewable
energy. Last but not least, renewable energy will also give easy access to their
population in the rural area, where no sophisticated energy infrastructure is
present. With the substantial support from government, Asian developing
countries will become the fastest growing market of renewable energy in next
decade.
   http://www.hkc22.com/renewableenergy.html

   this study is new based february 2007 by helmut kaiser consultancy, a leading
   consulting company in science research and new technologies since 1980

   for more information pls see
   http://www.hkc22.com/renewableenergy.html

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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CDES'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
----------------------------------------------------------

                Last  Call  For  Papers

The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'07)
     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     Paper Submission Deadline:  March 4, 2007
url: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CDES07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of CDES'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Processor and co-processor design
   O  Cache and memory systems
   O  Reliable architectures
   O  Computer systems design and applications
   O  VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
   O  ASIC design and architectures
   O  Large-scale systems
   O  Logic and circuit design
   O  Arithmetic circuits
   O  Memory circuits
   O  Microarchitectures
   O  Power-efficient computer design and power management
   O  High-performance input/output systems and design
   O  Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
   O  Innovative hardware/software architectures
   O  Scheduling techniques
   O  Prefetching techniques
   O  Architecture simulation systems
   O  Branch prediction
   O  Superscalar and dataflow design
   O  Interconnect and interface design
   O  Storage subsystem architectures
   O  Architectures for secure computing
   O  Performance analysis and evaluation
   O  Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
   O  Real-time architectures
   O  Benchmarking and measurements
   O  Quantum computing
   O  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
   O  Complexity issues
   O  High-level design methodologies
   O  Support of operating systems and languages
   O  Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
   O  Reusable architectures
   O  Synthesis
   O  Pipelining
   O  Mixed-signal design and analysis
   O  Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
   O  FPGA-based design
   O  Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
   O  Case studies
   O  Emerging technologies

   O  Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great
interest
      (irrespective of their direct relevance to computer design), including:
      - Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
      - Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
      - Miniaturization of science
      - Material science
      - Molecular machines
      - Nanodevices and nanostructures
      - Biomolecular machinery
      - Nanotubes
      - Nanomaterials
      - Nanomedicine
      - Nanobiotechnology
      - Scanning probes
      - Nanoelectronics
      - Nanosensors
      - Self-assembly
      - Computational chemistry
      - Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
      - Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
      - Supramolecular chemistry and technology
      - Supercomputing and nanotechnology
      - Nanotech and space exploration
      - Nanotoxicology
      - Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
      - Nanotechnology challenges
      - Social impacts of nanotechnology
      - Case studies and emerging  applications

   O  Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Architectures
      - Hardware software co-design
      - System-on-chip
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - Quality of service and scheduling
      - Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
      - System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
        quality of service support, validation technologies,
        survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
      - Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource
        constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
      - Software technologies (real-time operating systems,
        middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support,
        component-based technologies, ...)
      - Fault-tolerance
      - Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
      - Real-time databases
      - Programming languages and run-time systems
      - Real-time network connection scheduling
      - Feed-back scheduling
      - Multiprocessor scheduling
      - Resource management
      - Scheduling algorithms and analysis
      - Real-time kernel support
      - Modeling and synthesis techniques
      - Real-time data-flow applications/computing
      - Real-time control and sensing
      - Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
      - Simulation of real-time systems
      - Multimedia and QoS support
      - Real-time middleware systems
      - Object oriented methods for real-time systems
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and applications (telecommunications, aerospace,
        entertainment, consumer electronics, ...)
      - Case studies

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 4, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    CDES'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    March 4, 2007:     Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Computer
                       Design (CDES'07)



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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

A. M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, WORLDCOMP'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
----------------------------------------------------------

         Call  For  Papers (Extended Deadline)

      The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
      Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                     WORLDCOMP'07
  Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     New Paper Submission Deadline:  March 4, 2007
url: http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,
and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) is composed of the following
research and technical tracks (all will be held simultaneously,
same location and dates: June 25-28, 2007, USA):

      o Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
        (PDPTA'07)
      o Grid Computing and Applications (GCA'07)
      o Computer Design (CDES'07)
      o Scientific Computing (CSC'07)
      o Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07)
      o Genetic and Evolutionary Methods (GEM'07)
      o Machine Learning; Models, Technologies and Applications
        (MLMTA'07)
      o Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07)
      o Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'07)
      o Wireless Networks (ICWN'07)
      o Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition
        (IPCV'07)
      o Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)
      o Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality (CGVR'07)
      o Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA'07)
      o Internet Computing (ICOMP'07)
      o Semantic Web and Web Services (SWWS'07)
      o Security and Management (SAM'07)
      o Data Mining (DMIN'07)
      o Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'07)
      o e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and
        e-Government (EEE'07)
      o Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA'07)
      o Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering
        (FECS'07)
      o Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'07)
      o Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA'07)
      o Communications in Computing (CIC'7)

(a link to each of the above can be found at
http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/ws )

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Mar. 4, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.  Finally,
    the name of the conference/track that the paper is being submitted to
    must be stated on the first page.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    This set of joint conferences is the largest annual gathering of
    researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied
    computing.  Many of the 25 joint conferences in WORLDCOMP are the
    premier conferences for presentation of advances in their respective
    fields.  We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    March 4, 2007:     Extended submission deadline for full papers (about 5 to 8
pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science,
                       Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
                       (WORLDCOMP'07)



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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CDES'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
----------------------------------------------------------

                Last  Call  For  Papers

The 2007 International Conference on Computer Design (CDES'07)
     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     Paper Submission Deadline:  February 20, 2007
url: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CDES07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of CDES'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Processor and co-processor design
   O  Cache and memory systems
   O  Reliable architectures
   O  Computer systems design and applications
   O  VLSI systems design and scaling techniques
   O  ASIC design and architectures
   O  Large-scale systems
   O  Logic and circuit design
   O  Arithmetic circuits
   O  Memory circuits
   O  Microarchitectures
   O  Power-efficient computer design and power management
   O  High-performance input/output systems and design
   O  Parallel/multi-processor computer architectures
   O  Innovative hardware/software architectures
   O  Scheduling techniques
   O  Prefetching techniques
   O  Architecture simulation systems
   O  Branch prediction
   O  Superscalar and dataflow design
   O  Interconnect and interface design
   O  Storage subsystem architectures
   O  Architectures for secure computing
   O  Performance analysis and evaluation
   O  Multi-thread, multi-cluster, multi-core systems and processors
   O  Real-time architectures
   O  Benchmarking and measurements
   O  Quantum computing
   O  Novel design and methodologies
   O  System-on-a-chip: design and methodology
   O  Complexity issues
   O  High-level design methodologies
   O  Support of operating systems and languages
   O  Interaction between compilers and computer architectures
   O  Reusable architectures
   O  Synthesis
   O  Pipelining
   O  Mixed-signal design and analysis
   O  Electrical/packaging designs and co-designs
   O  FPGA-based design
   O  Impact of novel technologies on computer architecture
   O  Case studies
   O  Emerging technologies

   O  Topics in Nanotechnology - all areas of nanotechnology are of great
interest
      (irrespective of their direct relevance to computer design), including:
      - Integration of high-performance computing in nanotechnology
      - Bio-inspired and nano-scale integrated computing
      - Miniaturization of science
      - Material science
      - Molecular machines
      - Nanodevices and nanostructures
      - Biomolecular machinery
      - Nanotubes
      - Nanomaterials
      - Nanomedicine
      - Nanobiotechnology
      - Scanning probes
      - Nanoelectronics
      - Nanosensors
      - Self-assembly
      - Computational chemistry
      - Nanoscale structures and nanosystems
      - Biomedical engineering and nanotechnology
      - Supramolecular chemistry and technology
      - Supercomputing and nanotechnology
      - Nanotech and space exploration
      - Nanotoxicology
      - Nanotechnology and bioinformatics
      - Nanotechnology challenges
      - Social impacts of nanotechnology
      - Case studies and emerging  applications

   O  Topics in Real-Time Computing and Systems:
      - Architectures
      - Hardware software co-design
      - System-on-chip
      - Energy-aware real-time systems and applications
      - Quality of service and scheduling
      - Software engineering for real-time computing and systems
      - System design and analysis (probabilistic analysis,
        quality of service support, validation technologies,
        survivability and security, reliability issues, ...)
      - Infrastructure and hardware (embedded devices, resource
        constrained methods, time synchronization, ...)
      - Software technologies (real-time operating systems,
        middleware and distributed technologies, compiler support,
        component-based technologies, ...)
      - Fault-tolerance
      - Embedded systems and ubiquitous computing
      - Real-time databases
      - Programming languages and run-time systems
      - Real-time network connection scheduling
      - Feed-back scheduling
      - Multiprocessor scheduling
      - Resource management
      - Scheduling algorithms and analysis
      - Real-time kernel support
      - Modeling and synthesis techniques
      - Real-time data-flow applications/computing
      - Real-time control and sensing
      - Real-time and embedded distributed algorithms and systems
      - Simulation of real-time systems
      - Multimedia and QoS support
      - Real-time middleware systems
      - Object oriented methods for real-time systems
      - Knowledge-based real-time systems
      - Algorithms and applications (telecommunications, aerospace,
        entertainment, consumer electronics, ...)
      - Case studies

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    CDES'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Computer
                       Design (CDES'07)



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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you would share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, MSV'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
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                Last  Call  For  Papers

      The 2007 International Conference on Modeling,
      Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)

     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     Paper Submission Deadline:  February 20, 2007
url: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/MSV07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Simulation languages
   O  Modeling and simulation for computer engineering
   O  Modeling and simulation for education and training
   O  Real-time modeling and simulation
   O  Information and scientific visualization
   O  Perceptual issues in visualization and modeling
   O  Modeling methodologies
   O  Specification issues for modeling and simulation
   O  Visual interactive simulation and modeling
   O  Visualization tools and systems for simulation and modeling
   O  Java-based modelers
   O  Scalability issues
   O  Numerical methods used in simulation and modeling
   O  Finite and boundary element techniques
   O  Process simulation/modeling
   O  Device simulation/modeling
   O  Circuit simulation/modeling
   O  Multi-level modeling
   O  Prototyping and simulation
   O  Biomedical visualization and applications
   O  Databases and visualization
   O  Interaction paradigms and human factors
   O  Parallel and distributed simulation
   O  Discrete and numeric simulation
   O  Internet, web and security visualization
   O  Virtual reality and simulation
   O  Tools and applications
   O  Virtual environments and data visualization
   O  Object-oriented simulation
   O  Knowledge-based simulation
   O  Simulation of machine architectures
   O  Simulation of wireless systems
   O  Simulation of semiconductors and microelectronics
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in biotechnology
   O  Simulation and modeling with applications in nanotechnology
   O  CAD/CAE/CAM
   O  Emerging technologies and applications

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    MSV'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Modeling,
                       Simulation and Visualization Methods (MSV'07)



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Dear Colleagues:

I would appreciate if you could share the announcement below with those
who might be interested.

Best regards,

Ashu M. G. Solo
Publicity Chair, CSC'07
Principal/R&D Engineer, Maverick Technologies America Inc.
----------------------------------------------------------

                Last  Call  For  Papers

     The 2007 International Conference on Scientific
                 Computing (CSC'07)
     Date and Location:  June 25-28, 2007, Las Vegas, USA

         Academic Sponsors:  Research Labs at
   MIT, Harvard, Purdue, Univ. of Texas at Austin, ...

     Paper Submission Deadline:  February 20, 2007
url: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws/CSC07


You are invited to submit a full paper for consideration.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

SCOPE of CSC'07: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

   O  Supercomputing and scientific computing
   O  Mathematical modeling
   O  Computational models
   O  Computational electromagnetics
   O  Computational electrodynamics
   O  Computational fluid dynamics
   O  Scientific visualization
   O  Numerical methods and simulation
   O  Partial differential equations
   O  Monte Carlo methods and applications
   O  Molecular dynamics
   O  Stochastic differential equations
   O  Optimization and optimal control
   O  Ordinary differential equations
   O  Finite element methods
   O  Software architectures for scientific computing
   O  Scientific computing and supercomputing benchmark design
   O  Overlapping and nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods
   O  Seismic Data Processing
   O  Multi-level methods
   O  Multi-grid methods
   O  Iterative methods
   O  Krylov methods
   O  Level-set methods
   O  Atmospheric science
   O  Integral equations
   O  Operational research
   O  Dynamical systems
   O  Generalized eigen-problems
   O  Coupled problems
   O  Nonsymmetric solvers
   O  Nonlinear systems and eigenvalue solvers
   O  Numerical linear algebra
   O  Inversion problems in Geophysics
   O  Approximation theory
   O  Mathematics and circuit simulation
   O  Mathematical software tools
   O  Splines and wavelets and applications
   O  Engineering problems and applications
   O  Applications of scientific computing in physics, mechanics, chemistry,
      biology, environmental and hydrology problems, production scheduling,
      automotive industry, ...

Submission of Papers:

    Prospective authors are invited to submit their full paper
    (about 5 to 8 pages - single space, font size of 10 to 12) to
    H. R. Arabnia by Feb. 20, 2007 (hra@...). E-mail submissions
    in MS Doc or PDF formats are preferable (postal mail submissions
    are also fine.) All reasonable typesetting formats are acceptable
    (later, the authors of accepted papers will be asked to follow a
    particular typesetting format to prepare their papers for publication.)

    The length of the Camera-Ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to
    7 (IEEE style) pages.  Papers must not have been previously published
    or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.  The first page of
    the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation,
    postal address, email address, and telephone number for each author.
    The first page should also identify the name of the author who will
    be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 topical
    keywords that would best represent the content of the paper.

    Each paper will be refereed by two experts in the field who are
    independent of the conference program committee.  The referees'
    evaluations will then be reviewed by two members of the program
    committee who will recommend a decision to the chair of the track that
    the paper has been submitted to.  The track chair will make the final
    decision.  Lastly, the Camera-Ready papers will be reviewed by one
    member of the program committee.

Members of Program and Organizing Committees:

    The Program Committee includes members of chapters of World Academy
    of Science (chapters: supercomputing; scientific computing; artificial
    intelligence; imaging science; databases; simulation; software
    engineering; embedded systems; internet and web technologies;
    communications; computer security; and bioinformatics.) Many members
    of the program committee for individual conferences include renowned
    leaders, scholars, researchers, scientists and practitioners of the
    highest ranks; many are directors of large research laboratories,
    IEEE Fellows, heads/chairs of departments, deans and provosts.
    Each committee also includes two Student Members (in their final stages
    of their PhD programs) who are identified as such.  Refer to the
    conference web sites for the list of members of program committee.

Co-Sponsors (a partial list):

    Academic Co-Sponsors of WORLDCOMP'07 include:
      - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory,
        MIT (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
      - Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory,
        Department of Statistics, Harvard University (Cambridge,
        Massachusetts)
      - Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at
        Austin (Austin, Texas)
      - Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory of
        Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
      - University of Iowa's Medical Imaging HPC Lab (Iowa City, Iowa)
      - Institute for Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of
        Sciences, Moscow, Russia);
    Other Co-sponsors include:
      - HPCwire
      - GRIDtoday
      - STEM Education Society
      - HPCSoft, HPC Software Inc.
      - International Technology Institute
      - H2cM - Hodges' Health, UK

Purpose / History:

    CSC'07 will be held in conjunction with WORLDCOMP'07
    (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp07/ws ).
    WORLDCOMP'07 is the largest gathering of researchers in computer
    science, computer engineering and applied computing.
    Many of the tracks of WORLDCOMP are considered to be the premier
    meetings for presentation of advances in their respective fields.
    We anticipate to have 2000 or more attendees from over 75
    countries participating in the 2007 event.

    The motivation is to assemble a spectrum of affiliated research
    conferences into a coordinated research meeting held in a common
    place at a common time.  The main goal is to provide a forum for
    exchange of ideas in a number of research areas that interact.  The
    model used to form these annual conferences facilitates communication
    among researchers from all over the world in different fields of
    computer science, computer engineering and applied computing.  Both
    inward research (core areas of computer science and engineering) and
    outward research (multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, and
    applications) will be covered during the conferences.

Important Dates:

    Feb.  20, 2007:    Submission of full papers (about 5 to 8 pages)
    March 20, 2007:    Notification of acceptance
    April 20, 2007:    Camera-Ready papers and Registration due
    June 25-28, 2007:  The 2007 International Conference on Scientific
                       Computing (CSC'07)




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qPCR 2007 - CALL for scientific contributions



Dear colleagues,
dear researchers,
dear company representatives,


On behalf of the Organisation Committee and the Scientific Board it is
great pleasure to invite you to the 3rd International qPCR Symposium &
Industrial Exhibition & Application Workshop to be held at the Center
of Life Science in Freising Weihenstephan, Technische Universität
München (Germany). The great international interest in the previous
meetings ( qPCR 2004 and qPCR 2005 ) with up to 465 participants in
each event from over 40 countries, and 30 international companies in
the qPCR Industrial Exhibition led us to the decision to repeat it in
spring 2007.
We have set the date for the qPCR 2007 Event   at  26 – 30th March
2007. The event location is the central lecture hall complex and the
foyer at TUM (Technical University of Munich) in Freising
Weihenstephan, Germany. The TUM and the Biotech region around Munich
is part of the largest Biotech cluster in Europe, located close to the
Munich airport in the heart of Bavaria.

http://qPCR2007.gene-quantification.info/

Leading academic researchers and industrial contributors in the field
will be participate in the symposium, which will be an arena for
fruitful discussions between researchers of different backgrounds.
Here you will find a list of the confirmed Symposium Talks
(preliminary). The Symposium Talks, various Poster Sessions,
Industrial Exhibition and three associated TATAA Application Workshops
offer an overview of the present knowledge and future developments in
qPCR technology and its wide applications.

Download up-dated FLYER with all essential information  (1.2 MB)
http://www.wzw.tum.de/gene-quantification/qpcr2007/qPCR-2007-2nd-announcement.pd\
f

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CALL for scientific contributions:  TALK and POSTER presentations

We are still looking for innovative Talk and Poster presentations in
ALL sessions mentioned below. Please submit your abstract until 31st
January 2007 at our internet basd Registration and Abstract Submission
Tool  => ConfTool.

http://qPCR2007call.gene-quantification.info/

=>  The focus of the qPCR 2007 Event will be on the both Main Sessions:
=>  single-cell qPCR and  microRNA / siRNA quantitative RT-PCR
applications
=>  Deadline  for abstract submission ( Talks and Posters )  =>   31st
  January 2007
=>  Please register and submit your abstract here  =>
https://www.wzw.tum.de/conftool/


  The qPCR 2007 Event is structured with three parts:

1.    qPCR Symposium taking place March 26 – 28,  including various
Talk and Poster sessions
2.    A parallel qPCR Industrial Exhibition taking place March 26 – 28
3.    Followed by three qPCR TATAA Workshops taking place March 29 – 30
3a.     Classical qPCR Application  (2-days)     => download flyer

http://www.wzw.tum.de/gene-quantification/qpcr2007/Schedule_TATAA_Core_Module_qP\
CR2007.pdf
3b.     qPCR Biostatistics and Expression Profiling  (2-days)     =>
download flyer

http://www.wzw.tum.de/gene-quantification/qpcr2007/Schedule_TATAA_Biostat_Module\
_qPCR2007.pdf
3c.     Sample Preparation (1-day)   &  Immuno-qPCR  (1-day)     =>
download flyer

http://www.wzw.tum.de/gene-quantification/qpcr2007/Schedule_TATAA_SamplePrep_Imm\
uno_Module_qPCR2007.pdf

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qPCR 2007 Event - 3rd International qPCR Symposium  &  Industrial
Exhibition &  Application Workshop
26th - 30th March 2007,  in  Freising-Weihenstephan,
Technical University of Munich,  Physiology-Weihenstephan,  Germany

http://qpcr2007.gene-quantification.info/

The qPCR 2007 Event is structured with three parts:

1.    qPCR Symposium taking place March 26 – 28,  including various
Talk and Poster sessions
2.    A parallel qPCR Industrial Exhibition taking place March 26 – 28
3.    Followed by three qPCR TATAA Workshops taking place March 29 – 30

CALL for scientific contributions:  TALK and POSTER presentations

=>  The focus of the qPCR 2007 Event will be on single-cell qPCR, and
  microRNA / siRNA quantitative RT-PCR applications
=>  Final deadline  for abstract submission ( Talks and Posters )  =>
   31st  January 2007
=>  Please register and submit your abstract here  =>
https://www.wzw.tum.de/conftool/

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qPCR 2007 sessions Prime session:    Single-cell qPCR
all around single-cell qPCR, pre-amplification techniques, laser micro
dissection, sub-cellular PCR, micro-manipulation of cell clusters,
cellular micro injection, …

Prime session:    microRNA – siRNA Applications
microRNA extraction, qRT-PCR technologies to detect microRNA, siRNA
applications in combination with real-time RT-PCR, microRNA targets
and microRNA precursors, new siRNA manipulation and microRNA
technologies, .....

Immuno qPCR
development, establishment, optimization of immuno-qPCR, innovative
immuno qPCR applications, …..

New diagnostic applications with real-time PCR
new quantification methods, new dyes and probe technologies, SNP
analysis, high resolution melt applications, Marker Genes (diagnostic,
prognostic and therapeutic markers on DNA and RNA level), .......

High throughput quantitative PCR
96 well and 384 well applications, new high throughput platforms, SNP
application, gene expression real-time RT-PCR arrays, quantitative
multiplexing, …..

Pre-analytical Steps
sampling technologies, DNA / RNA purification, DNA / RNA quality
control, Reverse Transcription, RT quality control, external
references, …..

qPCR NOS Session   -   Normalization & Optimization & Standardization
new types of normalization, one vs. multiple reference genes, genomic
DNA as standard, external standards, optimization of the real-time
PCR, inhibition of negative effects, optimization of real-time PCR
efficiency, multiplexing, establishment of DNA / RNA standards,
inter-run standards, national and international studies on qPCR
standardization, quantification strategies, ........

qPCR BioStatistics & BioInformatics
software applications, calculation of relative expression, data
mining, primer and probe design, real-time PCR efficiency
determination, CP determination from amplification response curves by
mathematical modelling, raw data analysis, statistics in real-time
PCR, data management, 3D data visualization, ........

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TATAA Biocenter Germany - qPCR Application workshops

http://tataa.gene-quantification.info/

At the TATAA Biocenter Germany we offer qPCR application workshops,
the 3-day Core Module and a 2-day Biostatistics Module.  qPCR courses
are held in regularly in Göteborg, Sweden in English and in
Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany in German and English. Depending on
the occasion the workshop language and the different prices may apply.
Further customized workshops and specialized trainings will be held as
well across Europe and world-wide. TATAA Biocenter Germany courses are
held in cooperation with the Institute of Physiology, located at the
Technical University of Munich, in Freising-Weihenstephan, near
Munich, very close to the Munich Airport (MUC). For more information
and to register for the qpCR application workshops, please see our web
page:  http://tataa.gene-quantification.info/

Course Occasions 2007:         Please register here:
http://www.tataa.com/

- 29th Jan  - 2nd Feb 2007 (in German)  3-day Core module and 2-day
BioStatistics Module
- 29th Mar - 30th Mar (in English) at the qPCR 2007 event
http://qpcr2007.gene-quantification.info/
- 7th May -11th May (in German)  3-day Core module and 2-day
BioStatistics Module
- 2nd - 6th July (in English)   3-day Core module and 2-day
BioStatistics Module

three workshops for 2 days (in parallel)
- 2-day Core Module
- 2-day BioStatistics Module
- 2-days Sample-prep/Immuno-qPCR mixed Module

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