About Manipur University:
Manipur University is located at Canchipur, Imphal, the capital city of Manipur, an Indian State bordering Myanmar. The University campus is spread over an ISI-MU WINTER SCHOOL ON area of 287 acres in the historic Canchipur, the old DATA MINING AND palace of the kingdom of Manipur. The Langthabal Palace (Konung) was established by Maharaja COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
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Guwahati from Panbazar around 2pm - 6pm Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) evening and reaches Imphal the next morning 203 B. T. Road, Kolkata-700108 around 7am-12noon. Bus fare will be around & Rs. 500. From Dimapur it takes about 8 hours to Manipur University, reaches Imphal. Imphal is also connected to Imphal, Manipur Silchar via NH-53. Manip ur University is around 7 Km from Imphal town. Buses, Autos and Taxis are available. Arrangeme nt can be made to pick up the participants from the Bus stand.
REGISTRATION FORM : The school is aimed at providing an Objective Venue: Department of Computer Science, opportunity to the research students and teachers of north- Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur eastern colleges/universities, with background in Duration: January 28 - February 01, 2008. ISI - MU WINTER SCHOOL ON mathematics, statistics, computer science, electrical and DATA MINING AND COMPUTATIONAL electronic engineering, information technology, physics Participants: Research students and teachers from and related areas, to be exposed to recent state-of-art of colleges/universities/research institutions/ laboratories in BIOLOGY data mining and computational biology. Topics of the the north-eastern region of India having interest in related school will range from introductory concepts, theoretical fields. January 28-February 01, 2008, developments, to different real life applications, and will Manipur University, Imphal, Manipur be covered by the faculty members of the Machine Support: There is no registration fee for the school. Intelligence Unit, ISI, Kolkata. Outstation participants will be provided local hospitality and 2nd class railway/bus fare by the shortest route.
Theme: Data mining is a form of knowledge discovery, essential for solving problems in a specific domain when Name :…………………...……………… the data is huge, both in dimension and number, and is heterogeneous (i.e., mixture of numeric, text, image, Patrons:S. K. Pal, Director and Distinguished Scientist, ISI Designation :……………………...……………. texture, symbolic) in nature. In other words, data mining C. Amuba Singh, VC, Manipur University involves the principles of pattern recognition and machine Institution :………………………………..…… learning applied to a very large heterogeneous database. The objective is to identify valid, novel, potentially useful, Address :……………………………...…… and ultimately understandable patterns in data. In real life applications, image data often share a large portion of the …………………………………..…..………….. Program Director: C. A. Murthy, Head, MIU mixed data and the success of analysis of such data ……………………………………………….….. depends on image processing tasks like image quality ISI, Kolkata enhancement and feature extraction. A large number of Telephone :…………………………………… researchers all over the world are engaged in developing various methodologies for pattern recognition, data mining Program Coordinators: S. Bandyopadhyay, ISI Fax :……………………………………….…… and image processing for designing intelligent systems in R. K. De, ISI different domains. T. Sinam, MU Email :…………………………….…………….
Qualifications :………………………………… Computational biology involves interdisciplinary research Local Organizing Committee: comprising statistics, information science, and biology. It ……………………..……………...…………… constitutes one of the foremost application domains, where O. Imocha Singh, Department of Computer Science, MU pattern recognition/data mining is found to hold great H. Mamata Devi, Department of Computer Science, MU ………………….……………………………… promise. With the advent of sophisticated technologies, a Th. Tangkeshwar Singh, Department of Computer Sc, MU huge amount of biological data (e.g., gene/amino acid Momtaz Th, Department of Computer Science, MU ………………….……………………………… sequences and gene expression) is continuously being S. Somokanta Singh, MIMS, MU Publications :……………………….………… generated. The objective is to extract some useful (Enclose additional sheets if required) information from these data, and thereby provide some Speakers: S. K. Pal, C. A. Murthy, S. Mitra, S. N. Biswas, clinical/pathological/therapeutic knowledge for various A. Ghosh, R. K. De, P. Maji, S. Bandyopadhyay, D. human diseases. This branch of research is now Bhandari categorized as computational biology. Accommodation required : Yes / No
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