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9:00 AM - 15th Annual Academic Festival

10:00 AM - Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions Information Table

5:00 PM - Burlington, VT happy hour

7:00 PM - 5/01 Boston

7:00 PM - 5/01 Chicago

7:00 PM - 5/01 New York City

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15th Annual Academic Festival
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10:00 AM - Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition

12:30 PM - Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon

2:00 PM - Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony

3:30 PM - Class of 2013 Parents Fund Ceremony

4:30 PM - President's Reception

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Periclean Scholar Awards Ceremony & Honors Forum Senior Recognition
Senior Varsity Athlete Recognition Luncheon
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Least-Squares Curve-Fitting Techniques For Improved Medicine Development

Location: Palamountain Hall: Emerson Auditorium

Date: 11/10/2011

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Speaker: Charles Bergeron, Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Description:
In drug discovery, the effectiveness of medicines is based on fitting the Hill equation (shaped like a sigmoid) to experimental data points. These data points are sometimes noisy, and often fail to cover the full range of the sigmoid. This makes curve-fitting difficult.

In this talk, we qualitatively and quantitatively "explore" the geometric properties of this Hill model (slope and curvature) so as to be able to identify which samples can be fit reliably. In the field of statistical modeling, this "exploration" is called "domain knowledge," and this knowledge is then applied to obtain adequate fits on samples whose fits are uncertain.

This analysis should improve research efforts that aim to use mathematics and computers to develop better medicines and make the drug design process less expensive and time-consuming. This talk should appeal to any student interested in mathematics and scientific inquiry.

Sponsor:
Mathematics & Computer Science Department

Contact:
Kim Newsom
518-580-5280

Tags: lecture mathematics medicine rpi science skidmore

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