From owner-cse575-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Sun Nov 9 12:31:22 2008 Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:29:48 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: Buffalo Ontology Week To: CSE575-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ======================================================================== Apologies for multiple copies of this, which is being cross-posted. ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:11:04 -0500 From: Barry Smith Subject: Buffalo Ontology Week July 20-26, 2009 (Advance Notice) Dear ontology-interested persons in the Buffalo area, Please inform your colleagues and students of the following UB events, scheduled to take place in the days leading up to the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology. July 20-23 Two-Day Classes: Randall Dipert and Neil Williams (Buffalo): The Ontology of Events, Powers and Dispositions Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly and Fabian Neuhaus (Buffalo): Spatial Ontology and Qualitative Reasoning Werner Ceusters (Buffalo), Alan Ruttenberg (Science Commons, MIT) and Barry Smith (Buffalo): From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology David Hershenov (Buffalo): Metaphysical Foundations of Biomedical Ethics July 20-23 Half-Day Tutorials, including: Fabian Neuhaus (National Institute of Standards and Technologies): Formal Methods for Biologists Mathias Brochhausen (Institute of Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science): The Ontology of Paleobiology Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry): An Introduction to Chemistry Ontology Olivier Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine): An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology All events will be open to all registered participants. Classes are offered to UB students for credit. For further details please see: http://icbo.buffalo.edu