Dear TC6 members,
The deadline for hotel registration in Libon ended yesterday. I managed to
get an extension of that deadline until September 13th. Please remember that
the hotel cannot guarantee rooms after that date. I would thank also that
those of you who come to the Lisbon meeting, but are not staying in the
Melia Hotel, please let me know.
Best regards
Augusto
Dear friends,
I wish all of you a MERRY CHRISTMAS nad that 2003 brings PEACE AND
PROSPERITY to our world so needed of both.
Best regards
Ramon
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Ramon Puigjaner
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Departament de Ciencies Matematiques i Informatica
07071 PALMA (Spain)
Phone: +34-971173288 Fax: +34-971173003
e-mail: putxi(a)uib.es
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Miquel
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Miquel Nicolau i Vila
Delegat del Rector
Universitat d'Andorra
Plaça de la Germandat
Sant Julià de Lòria
Principat d'Andorra (Europe)
Tel. +376 841 806
Fax. +376 843 538
E-mail: mnicolau(a)andorra.ad
Apologies for multiple copies
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Please note that the deadline for having special fare in hotels is
the end of the year. After that date it could be difficult to find
rooms in hotel due to high sky season in Rovereto.
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Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB 2003)
University of Trento
24-26 February, 2003 Rovereto, Italy
http://www.unitn.it/convegni/cmsb.htm
Molecular biology has until now mainly focussed on individual
molecules, on their properties as isolated entities or as complexes
in very simple model systems. However, biological molecules in living
systems participate in very complex networks, including regulatory
networks for gene expression, intracellular metabolic networks and
both intra- and intercellular communication networks. Such networks
are involved in the maintenance (homeostasis) as well as the
differentiation of cellular systems of which we have a very
incomplete understanding.
Nevertheless, the progress of molecular biology has made possible the
detailed description of the components that constitute living
systems, notably genes and proteins. Large scale genome sequencing
means that we can (at least in principle) delimneate all
macromolecular components of a given cellular system, and microarray
experiments as well as large scale proteomics will soon give us large
amounts of experimental data on gene regulation, molecular
interactions and cellular networks. The challenge of the 21st century
will be to understand how these individual components integrate to
complex systems and the function and evolution of these systems, thus
scaling up from molecular biology to systems biology. By combining
experimental data with advanced formal theories from computer
science, "the formal language for biological systems" to specify
dynamic models of interacting molecular entities would be essential
for
1. understanding normal behaviour of cellular processes, and how
changes may affect the processes and cause disease. It may be
possible to correlate genetic properties and symptoms in new and more
efficient ways, based on an actual understanding of how various
processes interact.
2. Providing predictability and flexibility to academic,
pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical researchers studying gene
or protein functions. In particular, it may save time by reducing the
number of experiments needed, if inadequate hypotheses could be
excluded by computer simulation.
PARTICIPATION
To participate please fill in the form at the URL
http://www.unitn.it/convegni/cmsb_form.htm
The inscription fee is 200EURO until the end of this year and 250EURO
for later registrations. The fee cover a copy of the proceedinngs,
coffee break and lunches, the social dinnner and the special event.
Hotel reservation can be done at special fare by the end of the year
according to the information that you find at the URL
http://www.unitn.it/convegni/cmsb_hotels.htm
The programme is available at the web page of the workshop.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
_ Charles Auffray, CNRS, Villejuif (F)
_ Cosima Baldari, Università di Siena (I)
_ Alexander Bockmayr, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy (F)
_ Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK)
_ Vincent Danos, Université Paris VII (F)
_ Pierpaolo Degano, Università di Pisa (I)
_ François Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt (F)
_ Drabløs Finn, , Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (N)
_ Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus - (D)
_ Ina Koch, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, (D).
_ John E. Ladbury, University College London (UK)
_ Patrick Lincoln, SRI (USA)
_ Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (JP)
_ Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK)
_ Simon Plyte, Pharmacia Corporation (I)
_ Corrado Priami (CHAIR), Università di Trento (I)
_ Aviv Regev, Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)
_ Magali Roux-Rouquié, BSMI Pasteur Institute (F)
_ Vincent Schachter, Hybrigenics Paris (F)
_ Masaru Tomita, Keio University (JP)
_ Adelinde Uhrmacher, University of Rostock (D)
_ Alfonso Valencia, CNB-CSIC Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia,
Cantoblanco Madrid, (E)
_ Olaf Wolkenhauer, UMIST, Manchester (UK)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Linda Brodo, Michela de Concini, Corrado Priami, Debora Schuch da Rosa Machado
Organizing Secretariat
Università degli studi di Trento
Ufficio Manifestazioni e Convegni
c/o Molino Vittoria, Via Verdi, 6
I-38100 Trento - Italy
Tel. (0039) 0461-883215-16-25
Fax (0039) 0461-883222
e-mail: ufficio.convegni(a)amm.unitn.it
Proceedings
The proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and
will be available at the workshop.
HOW TO REACH ROVERETO
Airports
The closest international airport to Rovereto is VERONA Valerio
Catullo (in Villafranca).
Other Airports: MILAN Linate or Malpensa, VENICE Marco Polo (in
Tessera) ROME Da Vinci (in Fiumicino) is about 8 hours train journey
from Rovereto.
Buses
There is a regular coach shuttle service every 20 minutes from
Malpensa and Linate airports to Milano Central Station
Malpensa - Milano Central Station about 50 minutes.
every 20 minutes from 04.15 - 00.15 (see timetable on website)
Linate - Milano connections
City bus n.73
>From the airport exit to town centre (piazza San Babila, Underground
>station): about 25 mins, departure every 10 min. Tickets ( 0.77
>euro) on sale at news-stands. The 73 bus has special luggage racks.
By coach from the Central railway station
There is a coach service between the Air Terminal at the Central
Station and Linate airport. Departures every 20 mins. The 20 min.
ride costs 2.58 Euro. Coaches have large baggage-holds.
Linate
Malpensa - Linate
A coach shuttle connects both airports in c.75 mins. Tickets cost 9.29 euro.
>From Verona Valerio Catullo airport to Verona Porta Nuova central
>train station about 15 minutes every 20 minutes from 6.10 - 23.30
Aereoporto Catullo: Connections
Venice Marco Polo airport is about 30 minutes from Mestre train
station by bus or you can take a vaporetto (taxi boat) to S. Lucia
train station in Venice old city.
Trains
There is a bus shuttle service from all the airports to the nearest
railway stations. You can check out the trains web site:
www.trenitalia.com
and click onto the British flag for train connections and times in English.
Ask for "andata e ritorno" (return ticket) if you are going back to
the same station, or "solo andata" (single). In big cities you will
find someone who speaks English at the station but in small towns it
is possible that they don't!
Please note that trains marked ES (Euro Star), EC (Eurocity) or IC
(Intercity) require a small supplement. The cheapest trains are
Regionale (R) and Interregionale (IR).
It is very important to remember to validate your ticket in one of
the yellow machines on the platform before you get on the train. You
will be fined if you forget!
Taxi
Taxis are available outside the railway station in Rovereto.
Tel: 0464 421555/421 365
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Prof. Corrado Priami Tel. 0461 882085
Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni Mob
Universita' di Trento Fax 0461 88 1624
Via Sommarive, 14 http://www.science.unitn.it/~priami
38050 Povo (TN) - Italia priami(a)dit.unitn.it
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ifip_ga(a)ifip.or.at [mailto:owner-ifip_ga@ifip.or.at]On
Behalf Of Plamen Nedkov
Sent: quinta-feira, 19 de Dezembro de 2002 09:18
To: All
Subject: [IFIP] Anatomy of a website
Dear Friends,
Tomorrow, we will send our last circular mail for 2002 -- The Last Story
for 2002. Before that, we thought you might enjoy a short story about the
IFIP website and a warm-up with a "tropical joke".
When we presented our new web-site design in 2001 everyone was invited to
"Plug in, capitalize on ideas and be inspired!" Since then hundreds of
thousands of individuals plugged in.
This November alone we had over 26,000 [twenty six thousand] individual
sessions at http://www.ifip.org. Where do the visitors come from?
The sessions originate in 105 countries!!! The share of the first 10
countries [measured by hits] is roughly as follows:
1. US -- 25 % [US commercial - 19.1, US educational - 5.6, and the rest is
US government and military]
2. Austria -- 3.5%
3. UK -- 3.1%
4. Germany -- 2.6%
5. Australia -- 1.9%
6. France -- 1.6%
7. Italy -- 1.6%
6. Egypt -- 1.4%
9. Japan -- 1.4%
10. Canada 1.3%
What are people interested in? The busiest pages relate to IFIP events,
publications, technical committees and member societies. The IFIP Newsroom
is also quite popular [Just to give you an idea - "The Last Story for 2001"
-- http://www.ifip.or.at/mail/msg00094.html -- [posted on 20 December 2001]
generated 424 requests during November 02 alone and a further 570 requests
this December, amazing given the fact that it was posted a year ago!!].
The pages of the IFIP Secretariat are regularly frequented both directly
and as a gateway to such projects as the "Day of the President", "Visions
from the IT Room" and other.
Who benefits?
->IT professional and practitioners worldwide [access to valuable
information and possibility for establishing partnerships in their field of
interest]
->The IFIP Community [more awareness of activities and projects]
->Member societies [updated information services, new ideas, higher
visibility due to traffic toward their sites]
->TCs [greater exposure, new ideas and opportunities for projects]
->Event organizers [ central information repository and assistance,
publicity, events and publications marketing]
->Editors and authors [recognition & higher visibility]
Next time someone asks "What's in IFIP for us?" you might wish to show the
pointer to http://www.ifip.org
The Delivery Co. -- "Créateurs de Rêves & websites"
Fun zone "end-of-year-selection" joke lovers only!
Are you getting tired of the cold? Here is a story about tropical life to
cheer you up ;-)
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Tropical Island Life
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On a group of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the
following people are suddenly stranded by, as you might expect, a shipwreck:
2 Italian men and 1 Italian woman
2 French men and 1 French woman
2 German men and 1 German woman
2 Japanese men and 1 Japanese woman
2 Chinese men and 1 Chinese woman
2 American men and 1 American woman
2 Irish men and 1 Irish woman
2 English men and 1 English woman
One month later on these same absolutely stunning deserted islands in the
middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred:
One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman.
The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a
manage-a-trois.
The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with
the German woman.
The two Japanese men have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy, a liquor store, a restaurant
and a laundry, and have got the woman pregnant in order to supply
employees for their stores.
The two American men are contemplating the virtues of suicide because the
American woman keeps endlessly complaining about her body; the
true nature of feminism; how she can do everything they can do; the
necessity of fulfillment; the equal division of household chores.
The two Irish men have divided the island into North and South and set up a
distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets
sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whisky. But they're
satisfied because at least the English aren't having any fun.
The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the
English woman.
Plamen Nedkov
Executive Director, IFIP
Hofstrasse 3, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Tel: +43 2236 73616 Fax: +43 2236 736169
http://www.ifip.org/
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Guy
________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Guy Leduc Tel : +32 4 366 26 98
Université de Liège Secr : +32 4 366 26 91
Réseaux Informatiques Fax : +32 4 366 29 89
Research Unit in Networking (RUN) Guy.Leduc(a)ulg.ac.be
EECS Department, Institut Montefiore, B 28, B-4000 LIEGE 1, BELGIUM
http://www.run.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/People/GuyLeduc/
Instead of the usual Christmas greetings:
2001: already gone
2002: is over, too (almost!)
2003: let's wait and see
2004: far, even more
2005: we'll stay alive
2006: the usual mix
of workshops, meetings,
conferences, eatings,....
See you in Buda and in Pest;
also in Muscat. All the best!
Otto Spaniol
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SPANIOL Otto, Prof. Dr. Tel.: +49-241-80 21400/401
Aachen University of Technology Home: +49-241-57 45 90
Computer Science Department FAX: +49-241-80 22220
D - 52056 Aachen Email:
Office address: spaniol(a)informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Ahornstrasse 55 www: http://www-i4.informatik.
D - 52074 Aachen rwth-aachen.de
GERMANY
