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  • Events 

    Friday, October 15, 2010 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    New York Computer Science and Economics Day

    Keynote Speakers: Robert Almgren (New York University and Quantitative Brokers), Hal Varian (University of California, Berkeley and Google), and Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia University)

    This meeting is brings together researchers in the larger New York metropolitan area with interests in Computer Science, Economics, Marketing and Business and a common focus in understanding and developing the economics of internet activity.

    Monday, November 8, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

    The Systems Biology of Bugs

    Speakers: Richard Bonneau (New York University), Saeed Tavazoie (Princeton University) and Yuhai Tu (IBM Research)

    Systems biologists and computational biologists combine methodologies to examine bacterial genomes and elucidate basic signal transduction mechanisms and the genetic basis of phenotypes in bacteria of biological, environmental and clinical importance.

  • Past Events

    Thursday, June 10, 2010 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

    A Look at the Tools and Comparative Approaches of Systems Biology

    Speakers: Mark Gerstein (Yale University), Avi Ma’ayan (Mount Sinai School of Medicine), and Stefano Monti (The Broad Institute)

    Systems Biology tools such as modeling, algorithms and machine-learning techniques are used to unravel the complexity of regulatory networks, analyze genomics data, perform integrative surveys and mine protein and gene regulatory networks.

    Monday, November 9, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

    Can Markets Undergo Phase Transitions?

    Speaker: Lisa Borland, PhD (Evnine and Associates)

    Dr. Lisa Borland applies methods from theoretical physics to understand the dynamics of financial markets. At this symposium, she will present her recent work “Statistical Signatures in Times of Panic: Markets as a Self-Organizing System”.

    Thursday, November 6, 2008 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

    Credit Crisis: Actions Taken and Lessons Learned

    The credit crisis has had a significant impact on the financial markets as well as the global economy. At this meeting, we will hear from two prominent presenters their insights and experiences on this topic.

    Friday, October 3, 2008 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    New York Computer Science and Economics Day (NYCE)

    NYCE 2008 is the first annual NY Computer Science and Economics day held at The New York Academy of Sciences. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers in the larger NY metropolitan area with interests in computer science, economics, marketing, and business.

  • Publications 

    eBriefing

    Green Building Solutions: What's Working?

    A four-part series looking at the state of the art in green building technology and design.

    Part 3 of the Green Building eBriefing series looks at post-occupancy evaluation of energy efficient buildings.

    eBriefing

    The Market's Hidden Cards: Algorithmic Trading Strategies

    Speakers: Ian Domowitz (Investment Technology Group) and Lee Maclin (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)

    Algorithmic trading has transformed the finance industry, affecting the way shares are sold in "dark pools" and how portfolio managers and traders interact.

    Annals

    The Challenges of Systems Biology: Community Efforts to Harness Biological Complexity

    Edited by Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Computational Biology Center, Yorktown Heights, New York), Pascal Kahlem (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom) and Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York, New York)

    This volume provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in subdisciplines within systems biology.

    eBriefing

    Signatures of Spacetime: The Tenth Northeast String Cosmology Meeting

    Speakers: Sean Carroll (California Institute of Technology), Petr Hořava (University of California, Berkeley), Lisa Randall (Harvard University), Jeff Harvey (University of Chicago)

    Among the topics under discussion were a new model for the arrow of time and our chances of seeing black holes at the Large Hadron Collider.

    eBriefing

    Algorithms on Wall Street: High-Frequency Automated Trading

    Speakers: Robert Almgren (Banc of America Securities), Kamal Kasera (Deutsche Bank), Mark Mueller (GMO, LLC)

    Though long associated with the image of human traders barking out buy and sell orders, many of today's biggest deals are now proposed, negotiated, and completed entirely by computers.