Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, is organizing first Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in the city from Dec 18 to 20.

The conference is aimed at scientists from diverse backgrounds including –biological, biomedical, IT, agricultural, engineering and physical sciences.

The conference is to cover issues such as Bio PERL, Biostatistics, Data Mining, Genomics & Proteomics, Structural Biology, Protein Folding, Molecular Modeling, Sequence Analysis, Pharmacokinetics and Enzyme Kinetics, Medical Informatics besides areas such as Numerical Methods and Optimization Techniques, Advanced Computing Techniques, Parallel Computing.

Registration fee for full-time students is Rs. 2500 (for foreign and NRI students it is US $ 150) and non-students is Rs. 3000 (for foreign and NRI attendees it is US $ 200. Cheque/DD can be drawn in favour of Dr Bhanu Prasad, Conference Chair, and can be sent to Dr USN Murthy, Head, Biology Division, IICT, Hyderabad. Officials can be contacted at 040- 27193134. Email: ins1097@indiatimes.com