Sven Bergmann heads the
Computational Biology Group in the
Department of Medical Genetics at the
University of Lausanne. He studied theoretical particle physics with
Prof. Yosef Nir at the
Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) where he received his PhD in 2001. He then joined the laboratory of
Prof. Naama Barkai in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the same institute, where he first worked as a
Koshland postdoctoral fellow and later as staff scientist. His work in the field of computational biology comprised designing and applying novel algorithms for the analysis of large-scale expression data, as well as modeling of genetic networks pertaining to the development of the Drosophila embryo. He is affiliated with the
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics since 2005 and a Cavaglieri Fellow since 2006.
- Address: Rue de Bugnon 27 - DGM 328 - CH-1005 Lausanne - Switzerland
- Phone at work: ++41-21-692-5452
- Cell phone: ++41-78-663-4980
- e-mail: Sven.Bergmann_AT_unil.ch
PS: Do you know how to get smoothly from A to B? Well, you just need to minimize the functional expression
<math> \tilde {\cal S}[y(x)] \equiv
\int_{x_i}^{x_f} \left(\kappa[y(x)]\right)^\nu \, ds(x) =
\int_{x_i}^{x_f} {|y(x)|^\nu \over
\left[1+y'(x)^2\right]^{3\nu-1 \over 2}} \,dx </math>
It turns out that it is possible to find analytically the most general solution <math>y(x)</math>, see this [paper] for details.