Organizing Committee

     Mikhail GROMOV (IHES)
     Annick HAREL-BELLAN  (CNRS-CEA/Univ. Paris-Sud & IHES)
     Nadya MOROZOVA  (CNRS-CEA & IHES)
     Nava SEGEV (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago)

Scientific Committee

     Nava Segev (UIC, USA), Chair
     David Drubin (UC-Berkeley, USA)
     Bruno Goud (Institut Curie, FR)
     Nissim Hay (UIC, USA)

 

Goal: The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from different areas of biology to discuss with scientists from other disciplines the influence of the molecular biology revolution on current research in biology.  Topics will range from investigating specific molecular players, through pathways, to omics and organisms.

Topics

     • Molecular Machines
     • Cellular Pathways and Mechanisms
     • Intra-and Extra-Cellular Coordination and Communication
     • Genomes and Cell Fate
     • Disease, Cancer and Aging

Program: 

There will be four kinds of sessions: Plenary Talks, Discussions, Poster sessions and Workshops.

Plenary Talks: 45-minute talks will be given by invited speakers followed by a short discussion after each talk.

Panel Discussions: At the end of each day, a panel that includes speakers and mediators will discuss issues related to the topic.The audience will be encouraged to participate.

Poster Sessions: Attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts for poster sessions that will take place every day during the lunch break. Some abstracts will be selected by the Scientific Committee for short presentations.

Workshops:  Appropriate abstracts will be selected by the Scientific Committee for Workshops designed for exploring ideas in theoretical biology.

Extended discussions:  On Saturday March 10 conference rooms in IHES will be available for further discussions.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

I. Molecular Machines

Resolving proteins structure and interactions to understand molecular machines

John Christodoulou  (UCL, UK), Charlie Boone (UToronto, CA), Tom Kerppola (UMich, US), Mark Hochstrasser (Yale, US),  Tomas Kirchhausen  (Harvard, US)                                         

II. Cellular Pathways and Mechanisms

Combining classical and molecular genetics to decipher cellular pathways and mechanisms

Vivek Malhotra (CRG, ES), Alberto Luini (IBP, IT), Jingshi Shen (UColorado, US), David Drubin (Berkeley, US), Judith Klumperman (Utrecht, NL)                                       

III. Intra-and Extra-Cellular Coordination and Communication

Pathway regulation and coordination and cell communication

Nava Segev (UIC, US), Keith Mostov (UCSF, US), Yves Barral (ETHZ, CH), Bruno Goud (Institut Curie, FR),  Ana-Maria Lennon-Duménil (Institut Curie, FR)

IV. Genomes and Cell fate

Genome expression and manipulation

Romain Koszul (Pasteur, FR), Ben Lehner (EMBL-CRG, ES), Joel Bader (JHU, US), Miguel Seabra (FCM, PT),  Jean-Philippe Vert (ENS Paris – MINES ParisTech – Institut Curie – INSERM)

V. Disease, Cancer and Aging

From sequencing genomes to cracking human disease and aging

Ruedi Aebersold  (ETHZ, CH), Nahum Sonenberg (McGILL, CA), Dafna Bar Sagi (NYU, US), Michael Karin (UCSD, US), Ludo Van Den Bosch (VIB, KU-Leuven, BE)                    

­
Schlumberger workshop on Topics in Applied Probability
Centre de conférenc­es Marilyn et James Simons
28 mars 2014­­­
­Organisateurs : Josselin Garnier, George Papanicolaou
Conférenciers invités :

­­ Yves Achdou­ (Université Paris VII)
­ Nicolas Champagnat (Université de Lorraine)
François Delarue ­(Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Sylvie Méléard (Ecole Polytechnique)
Huyên Pham (Université Paris VII)­
Gilles Wainrib ­(Université Paris XIII­)

The aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians and computer scientists around some talks on recent results in statistics and machine learning. Various topics will be presented, among which network reconstruction, natural language processing, extreme events, topological data analysis, non parametric estimation for random walks in random environment and online learning.

Organised by : Sylvain ARLOT and Guillaume CHARPIAT

Invited speakers :

Alexandre Allauzen (Université Paris-Sud, LIMSI)
Frédéric Chazal (INRIA Saclay)
Isabelle Guyon (Université Paris-Sud, LRI)
Matthieu Lerasle (CNRS, LMO)
Vianney Perchet (CMLA)
Anne Sabourin (Télécom ParisTech)

 

MASAKI KASHIWARA and ALGEBRAIC ANALYSIS

The story starts in the sixties, when Mikio Sato introduces hyperfunctions by algebraic methods with the dream to treat classical problems of analysis with the tools of algebraic geometry, homological algebra and sheaves, what he called "Algebraic Analysis".

Read more on Giuseppe Dito's web page

 

List of speakers:

    Anton ALEKSEEV (Université de Genève)
    Philip BOALCH (Université Paris-Sud)
    Anna CADORET (Ecole Polytechnique)
    Giovanni FELDER (ETH Zürich)
    Julien GRIVAUX (Aix-Marseille Université, IHES)
    Stéphane GUILLERMOU (Université Grenoble Alpes)
    Mikhail KAPRANOV (IPMU, The University of Tokyo)
    Masaki KASHIWARA (RIMS, Kyoto University)
    Maxim KONTSEVICH (IHES)
    François LOESER (Université Paris 6)
    Takuro MOCHIZUKI (RIMS, Kyoto University)
    Motohico MULASE (UC Davis)
    Hiraku NAKAJIMA (RIMS, Kyoto University)
    Marco ROBALO (Université Paris 6)
    Raphaël ROUQUIER (UCLA)
    Takeshi SAITO (The University of Tokyo)
    David TREUMANN (Boston College)
    Michèle VERGNE (Université Paris 7)
    Gabriele VEZZOSI (Università di Firenze)
    Tony Yue YU (Université Paris-Sud)

Organising Committee:

     Giuseppe Dito  (Université de Bourgogne)
     Maxim Kontsevich  (IHES)
     Pierre Schapira  (Université Paris 6)

 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together mathematicians and computer scientists around some talks on recent results in statistics and machine learning. Various topics will be presented, among which sequential learning, aggregation of estimators, Hidden Markov models, network inference and optimization for machine learning.

Organised by : Sylvain ARLOT

Invited speakers :

Pierre Alquier (ENSAE)
Stéphane Gaiffas (Ecole Polytechnique)
Claire Lacour (Université Paris-Sud)
Odalric-Ambrym Maillard (INRIA – Université Paris-Sud)
Yann Ollivier (CNRS – Université Paris-Sud)
Joseph Salmon (LTCI, CNRS, Télécom ParisTech)

 

 

Holder of the AXA-IHÉS Chair of Mathematics

Certainly, geometry in the 21st century with physical application, will involve the study of new kinds of objects with categorical structures playing a primordial role.
Maxim Kontsevich has been a force of nature in creating these new categorical structures in the last 20 years.
The goal of this conference is to celebrate his contributions to Mathematics and Physics.
This meeting­ will contribute to disseminate results on­ a variety of subjects and will ­serve a perfect opportunity for young scientists to get involved in top research. ­

Invited speakers

Mohammed ABOUZAID (Columbia Univ., New York USA)
Denis AUROUX (U.C. Berkeley, USA)
Tom BRIDGELAND (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
Alain CONNES (IHÉS-Collège de France, Paris, France)
Kevin COSTELLO (Northwestern Univ., Evanston, USA)
Emanuel DIACONESCU (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
Simon DONALDSON (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)
Alexander EFIMOV (Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Yakov ELIASHBERG (Stanford Univ., USA)
Kenji FUKAYA (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)
Alexander GONCHAROV (Yale Univ., New Haven, USA)
Sergei GUKOV (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
Mikhail KAPRANOV (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Tokyo)
Anton KAPUSTIN­  (Caltech, Pasadena, USA)
François LOESER (Univ. Pierre-et-Marie-Curie and IHÉS, France)
Yuri MANIN (MPIM ­Bonn, Germany)
Nikita NEKRASOV (Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook, USA)
Tony PANTEV (Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Graeme SEGAL (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
Paul SEIDEL  (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
Carlos SIMPSON (CNRS-Univ. de Nice, France)
Yan SOIBELMAN (Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, USA)
Richard THOMAS (Imperial College London, UK)
Bertrand TOËN (CNRS-Univ. de Montpellier 2, France)
Yuri TSCHINKEL (Courant Institute & Simons Foundation, New York, ­USA)
Claire VOISIN (CNRS-École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
Thomas WILLWACHER (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Shing-Tung YAU (Chinese Univ. of  Hong Kong,  China and Harvard Univ., USA)
Don ZAGIER (Collège de France, Paris and MPIM Bonn, Germany)
Anton ZORICH (Univ. Paris-Diderot, France)

 

With the support of the Clay Mathematics Institute and the FMJH

      

COMPUTATIONAL AND STATISTICAL TRADE-OFFS IN LEARNING

Organized by: Sylvain Arlot (Université Paris-Sud, Paris-Saclay), Francis Bach (INRIA Paris), Alain Celisse (Université de Lille 1)

This workshop focuses on the computational and statistical trade-offs arising in various domains (optimization, statistical/machine learning).
This is a challenging question since it amounts to optimize the performance under limited computational resources, which is crucial in the large-scale data context.
One main goal is to identify important ideas independently developed in some communities that could benefit the others.

Speakers :

Pierre Alquier (ENSAE, Paris-Saclay)
Alexandre d'Aspremont (D.I., CNRS/ENS Paris)
Quentin Berthet (DPMMS, Cambridge Univ., UK)
Alain Celisse (Université de Lille 1)
Rémi Gribonval (INRIA, Rennes)
Emilie Kaufmann (CNRS, Lille)
Vianney Perchet (CREST, ENSAE Paris-Saclay)
Garvesh Raskutti (Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Madison, USA)
Ohad Shamir (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
Silvia Villa (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova & MIT, Cambridge, USA)

 

Organisers: Thibault Damour (IHES), Vasily Pestun (IHES), Eliezer Rabinovici (IHES &  Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem)

The special properties of Black Holes have intrigued researchers for decades. They do signal their existence in nature in several ways including by emitting gravitational waves while merging. Their way of handling information is more elusive. In this workshop we plan to discuss mostly several aspects of this information handling with some emphasis on possible relations it has to the theory of chaos, thermalization and quantum information.

Invited speakers:

     BARBON José (IFT-CSIC, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid)
     BENA Iosif (CEA Saclay)
     CRAPS Ben (Vrije Univ. Brussel)
     DE BOER Jan  (Univ. of Amsterdam)
     FERRARI Frank (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles)
     GIBBONS Gary  (DAMTP, Cambridge Univ.)
     GURAU Razvan (CPHT, Ecole polytechnique)
     KURCHAN Jorge (ENS, Paris)
     MALDACENA Juan (IAS, Princeton)
     PAGE Don N. (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
     PAPADODIMAS Kyriakos (CERN, Genève)
     RIVASSEAU Vincent (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)
     ROSENHAUS Vladimir (UC Santa Barbara)
     SHEPELYANSKY Dima  (Univ. Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
     SOLODUKHIN Sergey (Univ. de Tours)
     VENEZIANO Gabriele (CERN, Genève)