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	Giri Narasimhan Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies College of Engineering and Computing Professor School of Computing & Information Science Florida International University 11200 SW 8th Street, Room ECS254, University Park, Miami, FL 33199.	Office: ECS 254 Ph: (305) 348-3748 Fax: (305) 348-3549 Lab: (305) 348-6250 email: girics.fiu.edu
Teaching COT 6936: Topics in Algorithms S12, S10 COP 4516/CIS 3900: Competition Programming and Problem Solving S11, F11 BSC 4934: Q'BIC Capstone Workshop Su11, Su10, Su09 CAP 5510/CGS 5166: Bioinformatics S11, S08, S07, S06, S05, F03 COT5407: Intro to Algorithms F08 Data Structures S04 C for Engineers S06, F04	Research Publications; Software Research Group (BioRG) BioRG Publications	Misc. E-mail (SCS); E-mail (FIU) ResearchIndex; ACM Lib ScienceDirect; Ingenta; Google Hurricanes (I and II); Dictionary NCBI Entrez; PDB; BLAST SwissProt; InterPro; PROSITE Emergency 348-HELP(4357) PantherSoft

Postdoctoral Postion Available Position available starting immediately with Bionformatics Research Group (BioRG) for work on Metagenomics project (funded by Florida Department of Health) and on Comparative Genomics projects. Candidates must have a PhD and strong credentials in Bioinformatics research.

Edited Volume Bionformatics Research and Applications Ion Mandoiu, Giri Narasimhan and Yanqing Zhang Vol. 5542, Springer Verlag, 2009. [ISBN: 978-3-642-01550-2]

Research Monograph Geometric Spanner Networks Giri Narasimhan and Michiel Smid 560 Pages, January 2007 Cambridge University Press. [ISBN: 0521815134] Also available in eBook format.

Edited volume Advances In Bioinformatics And Its Applications Eds: M. He, Giri Narasimhan, S. Petoukhov Series in Mathematical Biology and Medicine Vol. 8, 632 Pages, May 2005 World Scientific Press. [ISBN: 981-256-148-X]

• Editor: International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
• Editor: Journal of Bionanoscience.
• Editor: Journal of Discrete Algorithms.
• Editor: International Journal of Experimental Algorithms.
• Program Committees: BICoB-2011, New Orleans, LA; BIOINFORMATICS 2011, Rome, Italy; BIOT 2010, Lafayette, LA; ISBRA 2010, Storrs, CT; ISBRA 2009, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; BICoB2009, New Orleans, LA; AAIM 2008, Shanghai, China; ICMLA 2008, San Diego, CA; CBB 2008, Orlando; ISBRA 2008, Atlanta; ICMLA 2007, Cincinnati, OH; BIBM 2007, Silicon Valley, CA; ISBRA 2007, Atlanta; BLSC07, Niagara Falls, Canada; WEA 2007, Rome, Italy; ICISTM 2007, New Delhi, India; ICMLA 2006, Orlando; CASB 2006, Dallas; IWBRA 2006, Reading, U.K.; ISAAC 2006, Kolkata, India; Dagstuhl Workshop 2006, Dagstuhl, Germany; IWBRA 2005, Atlanta; HiPCoMB 2005, Fukuoka, Japan; ICBA'04, Ft. Lauderdale; WADS'03, Ottawa; ALENEX'02, San Francisco; SPIRE'00, Spain; SPIRE'99, Mexico.
• Research Group: Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG).
• Curriculum Vitae [June 2009] (pdf)

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• Photography Links
  • Behold the Image of the Earth from the International Space Station, November 2000. Well, don't forget to scroll East-West and North-South. Did you spot London, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Moscow and Madrid? Did you check out the Nile River and the rest of the "Dark Continent, Indus Valley, North and South Mediterranean Coast, Istanbul, the Trans-Siberian Rail Route, the concentration near the Arab Emirates, the North-South Highway in Malaysia & Thailand, Australian Outback, the contrast between North and South Korea.
  • Day and night from orbit . This was taken by the crew on board Columbia on its last mission. The sun is setting. The city lights are already on in Holland, Paris, and Barcelona, and it's still daylight in London, Lisbon, Madrid, and the straits of Gibraltar. But the Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean are the Azores Islands; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, the Cape Verde Islands. The Sahara desert is luminiscent both during daytime and nighttime. Frozen Greenland is at the top of your screen.
  • Year's Best Photographs
  • Take Your Own Photograph Without a Camera! Your monitor can discern small heat/electrical impulses and detect bright and dark areas very close to the screen (1-2 feet). This is still a beta site, and the image is blurred, and the quality depends on the quality of your monitor.
  • Forest Fire
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• Java Related Stuff
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