PIMS Mathematical Biology Seminar Series
Winter 2002
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Jan 7 |
No seminar (First Day of Classes) |
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Jan 14 |
Dr. Paul Moorcroft Department of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology Harvard University Scaling vegetation dynamics: how population and community level processes affect ecosystem structure and function |
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Jan 21 |
Dr. Kevin Hall Entelos, Inc. What happens when type 2 diabetics are given insulin therapy? A surprising prediction of a mathematical model |
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Jan 28 |
Dr. Brian Dennis Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and Division of Statistics University of Idaho Nonlinear dynamics in ecological time series (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Dr. Laurent Pujo-Menjouet Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Physiology McGill University Global stability of cellular populations with unequal division (this seminar is joint with the DE&DS seminar) |
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Feb 4 |
No seminar (today's seminar will take place Fri Feb 8 at 14:00) |
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Nancy Sundell Center for Applied Mathematics Cornell University Dynamics of a two-patch herbivory system: Herbivore enhancement, adaptive behavior and trophic cascades (this seminar is joint with the DE&DS seminar) |
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Dr. Suani T.R. Pinho Instituto de Fisica Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Applications of Cellular Automata to physical and biological systems |
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Dr. Frithjof Lutscher Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Emerging patterns in a hyperbolic model for locally interacting cell systems (this seminar is joint with the DE&DS seminar) |
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| Feb 18 |
No seminar (Provincial Holiday & Reading Week) |
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Dr. Roseanne M. Ford Department of Chemical Engineering University of Virginia Transport phenomena of chemotactic bacteria in porous media (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Dr. K.P. Hadeler Department of Biomathematics University of Tuebingen Control of infectious diseases (this seminar is partially funded by the Endowment Fund for the Future) |
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Dr. James Bullock NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Winfrith Technology Centre, Dorset, UK Dispersal & colonisation in plants: measuring and modeling rare events |
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Dr. Jim Powell Department of Mathematics & Statistics Utah State University The mathematical basis for modelling insect seasonality and potential climate change-induced bark beetle invasions (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Dr. K.P. Hadeler Department of Biomathematics University of Tuebingen A Langevin or Kramers approach to spatial spread of populations (this seminar is partially funded by the Endowment Fund for the Future) |
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| Apr 1 |
No seminar (Easter Monday Holiday) |
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| Apr 8 |
Dr. Roger Nisbet's talk has been cancelled |
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Dr. Brian Leung Department of Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame Bioeconomic risk analysis of invasive species: strategic optimization using stochastic dynamic programming |
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Fall 2001 |
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Date |
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Dr. Mark Lewis Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Biology Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences and Department of Biological Sciences Wolf home ranges and prey survival |
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Dr. Frithjof Lutscher Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Adaptation of speed in fish schools |
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Dr. Thomas Hillen Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences 'Instantaneous-birth' models derived from transport equations |
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Dr. Kerry Landman Department of Mathematics & Statistics University of Melbourne "Can you still read the fine print? Water transport in eye lenses" and "How does your stomach feel? Development of the nervous system in the gut" (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Oct 8 |
No seminar (Thanksgiving Holiday) |
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Dr. Stephanie Portet Department of Physics Characterization and modeling of the cytoskeleton morphofunctional organization during mechanotransduction processes (this seminar is in cooperation with MITACS-MMPD) |
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Dr. Annemarie Pielaat Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Splash! |
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Dr. Prem D. Kharbanda Alberta Research Council Crop disease suppression using a bacterium Paenibacillus polymyxa For more information, click here. |
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| Nov 1 |
Dr. Hal Smith Department of Mathematics Arizona State University Competition in a 3D flow reactor with wall growth (this seminar is joint with the DE&DS seminar, and partially funded by PIMS) |
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Derek Tittensor Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Memorial University of Newfoundland Population dynamics of the zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus in the Labrador Sea: A modelling study Christopher L. Jerde |
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Nov 12 |
No seminar (Remembrance Day Holiday) |
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Dr. Sebastian Schreiber Department of Mathematics Western Washington University Allee effects, chaotic transients, and extinction in simple population models (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Dr. Kevin Painter Department of Mathematics Heriot-Watt University Modelling the malignant evolution of brain tumours (this seminar is partially funded by PIMS) |
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Dr. Christina Cobbold Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences A mathematical model of the early stages of atherosclerosis |
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Mathematical Biology Seminar Series
For more information, contact Gerda de Vries
(devries@math.ualberta.ca, 492 - 4561)
