Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes (Seminar)


392217 Wittler Winter 2014 Tuesday 14-16 in U10-146ekvv

Course Description

In this seminar, research of the DiDy Group is presented, and other research related topics are discussed. This semester, the faculty will introduce themselves / their research.

Schedule

Date Who/What
7.10. Administratives, Update on our research
14.10. Roland: How I became a Scientific Coordinator and some science that is left behind. Journal screening? Blogs?
21.10. Wiki hands-on (update research page)
28.10. Alexander Sczyrba
4.11. Barbara Hammer
11.11. Benedikt B., Georges, Yoga, Dany, Nina, Benedikt L., … Who are you again? I don't care about your science!
18.11. Markus, Liren, Lu, Tina, Nicole, Linda, …
25.11. Ellen Baake
2.12. Stefan Albaum
9.12. Guest: Michael Barton, JGI
16.12. Xmas market
6.1.
13.1.
20.1.
27.1. Robert Giegerich: “Mind over matter, matter over mind? Encouraging news about Pareto optimization in dynamic programming” (Abstract below)
3.2. Update on our research
?? Tim Nattkemper

Robert Giegerich: "Mind over matter, matter over mind? Encouraging news about Pareto optimization in dynamic programming"

Combinatorial optimization minimizes a “cost” function. When true costs are involved – in terms of money, energy, computation time – it is not a problem to optimize under multiple objectives. True costs simply add up. But what if our objectives are incommensurable:

Should we choose love over gold, gold over love, or what else?

Pareto optimization avoids the artificial combination of diverse objectives. It gives the best of two worlds in a mathematically strict sense, is safe to use, and has efficient implementations.