Journal Club (spring 2012)

Journal Club is every Thursday, from 12-13, in the small meeting room. Feel free to bring your lunch. We also have a Group Meeting.

Ideally, someone from the group should volunteer to choose a paper for each meeting, and should update this page and email the paper around on the Friday the week before the meeting. If a volunteer is not forthcoming, Micha may encourage someone to volunteer. Alternatively, people can also give tutorials on any scientific topic that may be of interest to other members of the group. The tutorial marketplace is the place to set and see the supply and demand for tutorials.

January 14

Gábor will talk about the Netflix prize and will (hopefully) present some of the most successful algorithms. See more here

January 21

Barbara will present Self-Sustained Replication of an RNA Enzyme and will talk about some theories concerning the origin of life.

January 28

We will start the Bayesian Network reading group, with Micha presenting

February 4

Diana will present: Pseudoscience & AIDS denialism

February 11

We will continue with the reading group with chapter 3. Karen will lead the discussion

February 18

Lausanne genomics days

February 25

Zoltán will present "What does a smart brain look like?" from Scientific American Mind (Nov/Dec 2009)

March 4

Karen will present "European admixture on the Micronesian island of Kosrae: lessons from complete genetic information".

March 11

Reading group

March 18

Aitana : Is this what it takes to save the world?

May 6

Rico will talk about quantum physics