Dr. Michael J. Novacek
Senior Vice President,
 Provost of Science, and Curator,
  Division of Paleontology,
American Museum of Natural History

Dr. Michael J. Novacek

Dr. David E. Shaw
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
D.E. Shaw & Co.

Introduction by:

Dr. Michael J. Novacek

Dr. Ward Wheeler
Curator, Division of Invertebrate Zoology,
American Museum of Natural History

This session will address the use of parallel algorithmics and cluster computing in phylogenetics, genomics, and neurobiology. Research results and theoretical considerations will be discussed as they are used in the ever-larger parallel systems to deal with biological problems, which are notoriously complex.

Moderator: Carol Ezzell
Writer and Editor,
Scientific American

Terry Gaasterland
Assistant Professor,
Rockefeller University

Mike Whiting
Assistant Professor & Curator,
Brigham Young University

Steven Zucker
Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering,
 Vision & Neural Computation,
Yale University

Introduction by:

Ward Wheeler

A discussion of parallel computations.

Dr. Robert Ciotti
TeraScale Applications Lead,
 NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division,
Ames Research Center, NASA

Dr. Mark Seager
Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Introduction by:

Dr. Francis C. Lees
Chief Information Officer,
American Museum of Natural History