DIMACS Workshop and Working Group Meeting on Bioconsensus

October 25 - 26, 2000
DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Mel Janowitz, Rutgers University, melj@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Francois-Joseph LaPointe, University of Montreal, lapoinf@ere.umontreal.ca

Fred McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology, mcmorris@iit.edu

Boris Mirkin, University of London, mirkin@dcs.bbk.ac.uk

Fred Roberts, Rutgers University, froberts@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Workshop Program:

Wednesday, October 25, 2000

8:00am -  8:50am  Breakfast and Registration

8:50am -  9:00am  Welcome and Greeting:
                  Melvin Janowitz, DIMAC Associate Director

Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University

9:00am -  9:50am  Francois-Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal
                  The Evolution of Consensus in Phylogenetics:
                  Where Do We Go From Here?

9:50am - 10:40am  Bernard Baum, Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center
                  Combining trees and combining data

10:40am - 11:10am Coffee Break 

Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University

11:10am - 12:00am Casimir Kulikowski, Rutgers University
                  Structural Domain Parsing: The Role of Consensus Reasoning

12:00 - 12:15     Discussion of Morning Talks

12:15pm - 1:15pm  Lunch 

Session Chair: Francois-Joseph Lapointe, University of Montreal

1:15pm - 2:05pm   Douglas J. Cork, Illinois Institute of Technology
                  A New Tool to Help Generate Genomic Consensus--The W-Curve

2:05pm - 2:55pm   F.R. McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology
                  Compatibility Analysis as a Consensus Method   

2:55pm - 3:25pm   Coffee Break

Session Chair: Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College

3:25pm - 4:15pm   Melvin F. Janowitz, Rutgers University
                  Toward a Unified Theory of Relational Representations of 
                  Closed Set Systems and Phylogentic Trees
                  
4:15pm - 4:45pm   Discussion of Afternoon Talks
 

Thursday,  October 26, 2000

8:00am -  8:55am  Breakfast and Registration

Session Chair: Melvin Janowitz, Rutgers University

8:55am -  9:40am  Alan de Queiroz, University of Colorado
                  Phylogenetic Consensus as a Vote-counting Procedure:
                  Too Conservative and Too Simple, but Possibly Still Dispensable

9:40am - 10:25am  Fred S. Roberts, Rutgers University
                  Medians and Means as Consensus Methods for Molecular Sequences

10:25am - 10:55am Coffee Break 

Session Chair: F.R. McMorris, Illinois Institute of Technology

10:55am - 11:40am Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College
                  Combining character and distance analysis for building
                  inter-genome trees with linear binary hierarchies 

11:40am - 11:45am Closing remarks

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