Fourth year: April 2007- June 2008

Viatcheslav B. MelasSt. Petersburg State University, Project: Design of experiments, Visiting in April 2007. Seminar: Optimal Design for Nonlinear Regression Models,  April 16, 2007.


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.


Uwe Tangen, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Biomolecular Information Processing (RUB- BioMIP). Long term Visitor. Project: Research on evolution and complementation technology, May-June 2007.


Ruedi Fuechslin, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Biomolecular Information Processing   (RUB-BioMIP) long term visitor. Project: Theoretical tools for studying self-assebly systems, June-September 2007.


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


Trent McConaghy, Solido Design Automation Inc., USA. Visiting July 2007. Seminar on: Frameworks for handling complex designs, July 2, 2007.


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.


Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute (SFI), New Mexico, USA. Visititng in September-October 2007 (external funds).


Mirco Wegener, Fachgebiet Verfahrenstechnik Berlin, Germany. Seminar on: Marangoni convection, experiment and simulation, September 21, 2007.


Pier Luigi Luisi, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy. Seminar on: Chemical Aspects of Synthetic Biology, September 24, 2007 (external funds).


Maik Hadorn, Artificial Intelligence Lab, Univ. Zürich, Switzerland. Seminar on: Presentation of vescicle assembly, September 25, 2007.


Timo Smieszek, ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Switzerland. Seminar on: Spatially resolved models of diseases, September 27, 2007.


Rob Shaw, ProtoLife S.r.l., Italy. Seminar on: Flow of Shapes, October, 2007.


Andrey Pepelyshev, St.Petersburg State University, Russia. Long term visitor (Nov 2007- June 2008). Project: Elaboration of experimental designs in the high-dimension field.


Davide Ferrari, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota. Visit Nov-Dic 2007. Seminar on: A tour of estimation and model selection via regularization, November 26, 2007.


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.


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, 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, 2008.


Panos Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki. Seminar on: Collaborations in European research programs, March, 2008.


David Stark, Columbia University, USA. Seminar on: Searching Questions: Uncertainty, Inquiry, Opportunity, March, 2008 (external funds).


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


Giancarlo Mauri, Università di Milano – Bicocca, Italy. Seminar on: Membrane Systems and Their Application to Systems Biology, June 11, 2008.