Friday, April 12, 2012
9 am-5:30 pm (symposium)
6:30 pm- 8 pm (closing dinner)

Location (symposium):
Cafritz Theatre
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland

Location (closing dinner):
Prince George’s Room, Room 1210
Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland

Public Transit:The University of Maryland College Park is located roughly 1 mile from the College Park metro station on the Green Line. Upon exiting the metro station, you can proceed to the closest bus bay on your left. The Campus Shuttle bus #104 picks up roughly every 10 minutes between 7 am and 10 pm. You should ride the shuttle until it terminates at the last station (across from the Stamp student union.) Upon exiting the bus, turn left and immediately left again to head downhill to the central quad. McKeldin Library will be on your right at the end of the quad. If you would prefer to take a taxi to campus, you can board a taxi behind the College Park Metro Station parking garage.

Public Parking: Visitor parking is primarily available in four parking garages and two surface lots which have been converted to pay by space digital pay stations. Current rates are $3.00 per hour, with a $15.00 per day maximum. For visiting the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, we encourage you to park in the Stadium Drive Parking Garage located adjacent to the Football stadium. If you will be attending both the symposium and the closing dinner, we encourage you to park at the Union Lane Garage to enable you to avoid walking across campus after dark.

Day 2: Sequence Alignment

8:45-9 am Registration and Coffee

9:00-9:15 Review and introduction to Day 2

9:15-10:00 Bioinformatic Approaches to the Computational Analysis of the Poetic
A. Sean Pue, Assistant Professor, Department of Liguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages, Michigan State University
Tracy K. Teal, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University
C. Titus Brown, Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics,Michigan State University
View a PDF of the presentation slides.

10:00-10:45 Retrospective Science and Scholarship: Some Perspectives and Tools from Phylogenetics and Digital Forensics
Jeremy Leighton John, Curator of eMss, British Library
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10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Cultural Interaction
Maximilian Schich, Associate Professor, Art and Technology, University of Texas Dallas

12-1:00 Lunch (provided)

1:00-1:45 The Poem that Makes Things Happen: Diachronic Informatics, Effective Subjects, and the English Common Law
Simon DeDeo, Omidyar Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
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1:45-2:15 Break

2:15-3:15 Breakout Sessions (problems, issues, developments)

3:15-4:30 Round Table: synthesizing the breakout sessions and discussing future directions
Facilitated by: Kari Kraus, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies and the Department of English, University of Maryland

4:45-5:30 Lessons learned and future directions
Faciliated by: Brett Bobley, Director, Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities & Jeffrey Reznick, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health

6:30-8:00 Symposium Dinner (provided)