Fourth year: April 2007- June 2008

Viatcheslav B. MelasSt. Petersburg State University, Project: Design of experiments, Visiting in April 2007. Seminar on: “Optimal Design for Nonlinear Regression Models”,  April 16, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Hugues Bersini, IRIDIA Université Libre de Bruxelles, Visiting in April 2007. Seminar on: “Computer Simulations of Complex Chemical Reaction Networks and Autopoietic Systems: Recent developments at IRIDIA”, April 17, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Harold Fellerman, EES-6, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA and Complex Systems Lab, Barcelona, Spain. Long term visitor (May-December 2007). Project: DPD models for protocells. Seminar on: “Insights from integrating all subsystems of a minimal protocell”, December 10, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Trent McConaghy, Solido Design Automation Inc., USA. Seminar on: “Frameworks for handling complex designs”, July 2, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Nicolas Slegers, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Seminar on: “Constrained, Non-linear, Direct, Parallel Optimization algorithm using a trust Region method for high-computing load, continuous, noisy functions: CONDOR”, September 13, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Mirco Wegener, Fachgebiet Verfahrenstechnik Berlin, Germany. Seminar on: “Marangoni convection, experiment and simulation”, September 21, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Pier Luigi Luisi, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy. Seminar on: “Chemical Aspects of Synthetic Biology”, September 24, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Maik Hadorn, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Univ. Zürich, Switzerland. Seminar on: “Presentation of vescicle assembly”, September 25, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Timo Smieszek, ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Switzerland. Seminar on: “Spatially resolved models of diseases”, September 27, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Rob Shaw, ProtoLife S.r.l., Italy. Seminar on: “Flow of Shapes”, October 3, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Davide Ferrari, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota. Seminar on: “A tour of estimation and model selection via regularization”, November 26, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Areejit Samal, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India. Seminar on: “System level dynamics and robustness of the genetic network regulating E. coli metabolism”, November 29, 2007, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


J.C. Ferreira, IMAR - Centro de Modelação Ecológica, Dept. Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Monte de Caparica, Portugal. Seminar on: “ASSETS eutrophication assessment: method and application”, December 3, 2007. Seminar organized and sponsored by Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia and held at Ca’ Minich.


Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics. Seminar on: “Optimum Experimental Designs for Mixtures with Process Variables and Time Varying Response”, February 25, 2008, Ca’ Minich, Venice.


Panos Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki. Seminar on: “Collaborations in European research programs”, March 27, 2008, Ca’ Minich, Venice (external funds).


David Stark, Columbia University, USA. Seminar on: “Searching Questions: Uncertainty, Inquiry, Opportunity”, March 20, 2008, Ca’ Minich, Venice (external funds).


John Casti, IIASA and The Kenos Circle, Vienna, Austria. Seminar on: “Zeitgeist: Socionomics and the Science of Surprise”, April 18, 2008, Ca’ Minich, Venice (external funds).


Giancarlo Mauri, Università di Milano – Bicocca, Italy. Seminar on: “Membrane Systems and Their Application to Systems Biology”, June 11, 2008, Ca’ Minich, Venice.