2nd March 2006, 9:00 - 17:00
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Registration and Coffee |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Introduction by Dr John Bullinaria (Deputy Cercia Director) |
Morning: Evolutionary Computation in Cheminformatics
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Applications of Evolutionary Computation in the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Cercia Perspective Dr Thorsten Schnier, Cercia |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Welcome by Professor Les Clark, PVC, University of Birmingham |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Multi Objective Evolutionary approaches to Drug Discovery Dr Stephen Pickett, GlaxoSmithKline |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Tea Break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 |
Using Genetic Algorithms to Design and Patent Bactericidal Peptides Ian Stott, Unilever Research |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Evolving Predictors of Molecule-Cytochrome Interaction for Drug Discovery Dr Steven Barrett, GlaxoSmithKline |
| 12:10 - 14:00 | Student Poster Presentation (lunch is provided) |
Afternoon: Other Computational Intelligence Techniques in Cheminformatics
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Can discover informatic cure the ills of pharmaceutical R&D? Dr Wendy Warr, Wendy Warr & Associates |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Data Mining for Product Formulation Using Neural Computing Dr Elizabeth Colbourn, Intelligensys Ltd |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Tea Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Computational Intelligence in the Chemical Industry Dr Elsa Jordaan, Dow Chemical Company |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Computational Nanoscience: From Clusters to Proteins via Nature-inspired Computation Dr Roy Johnston, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Feedback and closing by Dr John Bullinaria (Deputy Cercia Director) |
Where is the Workshop?
The workshop is taking place at the Conference Park (Lucas House), University of Birmingham. The Conference Park website provides details of Lucas House and directions. The University also provide general directions on getting to the University Campus. Lucas House is marked as building 67 on the University maps.