Mei Liu, PhD, a computer scientist who uses advanced informatics approaches to improve health care, will join this fall the NJIT College of Computing Sciences as an assistant professor.  >>

NJIT will host MATLAB Day: Technical Computing with MATLAB and Simulink on October 6, 2010 in GITC 3730. This year's event offers two free one-half day technical demonstration and training sessions: "Data Analysis Using MATLAB," 9:00-11:30 a.m. in GITC 3730; and "Using MATLAB for Bioimaging, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology," 1:30-3:30 p.m. in GITC 3730. Register and review the agenda at: http://ist.njit.edu/matlabday/. >>

Laxmi Parida, PhD, research staff member in the Computational Biology Center at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, will discuss "Permutations in Bioinformatics" at a Computer Science Seminar on April 30 at 2:30 p.m., Guttenberg Information Technologies Center, Room 4415. >>