YEAR OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGY AT THE INSTITUTE MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS

FALL 1998-SPRING 1999

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

To learn more about the IMA, please see their homepage at http://www.ima.umn.edu/ .

The IMA believes the time is right for a Special Year in Mathematical Biology at the IMA in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The program will be built upon a selected series of workshops highlighting some of the mathematical challenges emerging form the consideration of biological issues. The focus will endeavor to show how the mathematics can be applied to the resolution of those issues. The following is a list of the three quarters each focusing on a different area of mathematical biology that has had profound success.

Theoretical Problems in Developmental Biology and Immunology

QUARTER 1- Fall Program: September 1- November 30, 1998

Organizers: J. Cook, B. Goldstein, C. Wofsy, L. Segel, P. Maini
  • Workshop 1: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis: Basic Processes, J. Murray, P. Maini and H. Othmer
  • Workshop 2: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis: Model Systems, J. Murray, P. Maini and H. Othmer
  • Workshop 3: Immune System Modeling and Cell Signaling , A. Perelson, B. Goldstein, L. Segel, D. Kirschner
  • Workshop 4: Dynamics and Control of AIDS , A. Perelson and D. Kirschner

    • Partial Differential Equations in Physiology

    QUARTER 2- Winter Program (tentative): January 1- March 31, 1999

    Organizers: L. Fauci, M. Reed, J. Sneyd, R. Tranquillo

  • Workshop 1: Intracellular Transport
  • Workshop 2: Cell Signaling, Motility and Adhesion
  • Workshop 3: Tissue and Organ Physiology
  • Workshop 4: Animal Locomotion

    • Global Change and Biodiversity

    QUARTER 3: Spring Program (tentative): April 1- June 30, 1999

    Organizers: S. Levin, C. Castillo-Chavez, S. Blower, R. Durrett, C. Neuhauser, P. van den Driessche, D. Kirschner

  • Workshop 1: Linkage Between Climate Change and Vegetation
  • Workshop 2: Models of Schooling and Aggregation
  • Workshop 3: Interacting Particle Models
  • Workshop 4: Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases

    • If you are interesting in participating or would like more information, please contact any one of the directors listed or the director of the IMA, Avner Friedman, at friedman@ima.umn.edu.

    DEADLINE for applications for postdoctorate, long-term and short-term visitors is January 15, 1998.

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