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Monday Dec. 17 - Program

        INVITED TALK

• 2:00 p m - 3:00 p m
          The algorithmics of folding proteins
          Vijay Chandru, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

        SESSION 1

• 3:00 p m - 3:30 p m
          Fast Algorithms for Determining Protein Structure Similarity
          Somenath Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
          Samarjit Chakraborty, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland
• 3:30 p m - 4:00 p m
         A Note on Randomly Mutated Hidden Markov and Related Sequences
         Probal Chaudhuri,  Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India 

• 4:00 p m - 4:30 p m
         Break

        SESSION 2

• 4:30 p m - 5:00 p m
         Automatically Deriving Multi-level Protein Structures through Data Mining
         Hongyuan Li, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
• 5:00 p m - 5:30 p m 
        Prediction of Secondary Structure of a Protein using Multi Agent System
        Phanideepak Kandula, Kamalakar Karlapalem, International Institute of Information
        Technology, Hyderabad, India

        PANEL DISCUSSION

• 5:30 p m - 6:30 p m
        Challenges in Bioinformatics in an Indian Context
        H. G. Sharat Chandra, Indian Institute of Science, India
        Vijay Chandru, Indian Institute of Science, India
        Shekhar Mande, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, India
        M. Vidyasagar, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India
        K. Vijay Raghavan, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India

Workshop Co-Chairs
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA
M. Vidyasagar, Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India

Biosketch 

Vijay Chandru, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Vijay Chandru (PhD, MIT. 1982) is a professor at the Indian Institute of
Science where he holds joint appointments as professor of Computer Science
& Automation and Management Studies. He is also a founder and Chief
Scientist of Strand Genomics, a bioinformatics and computational biology
company based in Bangalore. His research interests are in computational
mathematics and algorithms. Professor Chandru has taught at Purdue
University and University of Pennsylvania and has worked at IBM's T.J.
Watson Research Center as a visiting scientist. He is also an honorary
professor of the National Institute of Advanced Studies and the Jawaharlal
Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in India. He is a fellow of
the Indian Academy of Sciences.