Workshop on Mathematical Methods and Modeling of Biophysical Phenomena 


March 15th-21st, 2009

This is the sixth of a series of workshops organized by IMPA aiming at bringing together a multidisciplinary group of scientists to study problems in the biophysical sciences upon which mathematics may have an impact.
This year's main topics are:
  • Modelling in Biology, Ecology, and Epidemiology
  • Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Kinetic Theory
  • Identification and Inverse Problems in Biology
  • Learning Theory
  • Structured-Population Dynamics

 Scientific Committee

P. Markowich (Cambridge & Vienna)
B. Perthame (Paris)
J.P.Zubelli (IMPA)

 International Participant List

V. Calvez (Paris)
F. Chalub (Lisboa)
J. Clairambault (INRIA)
K. Fellner (Cambridge)
G. Huber  (Farmington)
A. Marciniak (Heidelberg)
J. Mitchell (Wisconsin)
C. Mocenni (Siena)
D. Oelz (Vienna)
J. Pacheco (Lisboa)
C. Schmeizer (Vienna)
E. Sparacino (Siena)
C. Turner (Cordoba)
M. Ward (Vancouver)

Local Committee

L. Bevilacqua (LNCC)
J. Koiller (FGV)
M. O. Souza (UFF)

Minicourses:

Mathematics of Pattern Formation in Biosciences

Anna Marciniak (Heidelberg)
Benoit Perthame UPMC & INRIA (Paris)
  1. Introduction to Turing-type pattern formation
  2. Diffusion-driven instability in reaction-diffusion system
  3. Nonlinear example of Turing-type model
  4. Turing instability and Darwin evolution
  5. Diffusion-driven instability versus multistability in developmental pattern formation

Introdution to the evolutionary dynamics.

Fabio Chalub (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

In the year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin,
nothing better than a survey in the mathematics of the
theory of evolution.

In this series of two lectures, we will present simple and hot topics
associated to the rigorous study of the evolution. This will include
the Hardy-Weinberg law, discrete and continuous evolutionary process
and an introduction to the evolutionary game theory.









                                                                             

STUDENT AND YOUNG RESEARCHER PARTICIPATION IS ENCOURAGED!
Financial support will be available for students presenting a poster or submitting a contribution.

DEADLINE FOR STUDENT FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND POSTER SUBMISSION: March 2nd, 2009.
Please, register following the link below and ask your advisor or research supervisor to write a reccommendation letter and send it to bio.math.impa@gmail.com


To register, please follow this link.

Sponsors

IMPA


Financial Support

CNPq

CAPES

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