Mathematical Biology Seminar Series

For more information, contact Gerda de Vries or Mark Lewis
(devries(at)math(dot)ualberta(dot)ca, 492-4561)(mlewis@math.ualberta.ca, 492-0197)

Schedule for Winter 2004

(click on the date to view the abstract, and on the speaker's name to see his/her web site, if available)

Date	Time	Location	Speaker/Topic
Monday, Jan. 19	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Erik Noonburg Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta Resource allocation in variable environments
Monday, Jan. 26	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Dan Coombs Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia Chirality Inversions Propagating on Bacterial Flagella (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, Feb. 2	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Janet Elliott Canada Research Chair in Interfacial Thermodynamics Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering University of Alberta Mathematical and thermodynamics modeling in cryobiology
Monday, Feb. 9	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Amy Norris McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre Exploring large-scale gene and protein expression data
Monday, Feb. 16			No seminar (Statutory Holiday and Reading Week)
Monday, Feb. 23	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Troy Day Departments of Mathematics & Biology Queen's University Modeling the Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogen Virulence (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, March 1	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Alex Potapov Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta TBA
Monday, March 8	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	TBA TBA
Monday, March 15	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Gino Fallone Division of Medical Physics, Department of Oncology University of Alberta Image-guided adaptive radiotherapy at the Cross Cancer Institute
Monday, March 22	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Michael Doebeli Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia Adaptive speciation: theory and experiments (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, March 29	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Christina Cobbold Department of Mathematics University of Glasgow TBA (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, April 5	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Birgitt Schoenfisch Lehrstuhl Biomathematik University of Tuebingen TBA (Partially funded by PIMS)

Schedule for Fall 2003

(click on the date to view the abstract, and on the speaker's name to see his/her web site, if available)

Date	Time	Location	Speaker/Topic
Monday, Sept. 8	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Frithjof Lutscher Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta A solution of the drift paradox
Thursday, Sept. 11	3:30 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Bryan Grenfell PIMS Distinguished Visitor Department of Zoology Cambridge University Comparative dynamics of childhood microparasitic infections and the impact of vaccination (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, Sept. 15	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Bryan Grenfell PIMS Distinguished Visitor Department of Zoology Cambridge University Waves, sparks and wavelets: measles in space and time (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, Sept. 22	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Michael Li Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences University of Alberta Immune Response to HTLV-I Infection and Backward Bifurcation
Monday, Sept. 29	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	No Speaker
Monday, Oct. 6	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Yuan Yuan Department of Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University of Newfoundland SPECIAL DEPARTMENT TALK - Recent Development of Normal Form Theory and its Applications
Monday, Oct. 13	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Thanksgiving - No seminar this week
Monday, Oct. 20	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Michael Mackey Department of Physiology and Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine McGill University Mathematical models of gene regulation
Thursday, Oct. 23	3:30 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Bo Deng Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cracking the Neural Code Departmental Colloquium
Friday, Oct. 24	2:00 p.m.	CAB 269	Dr. Bo Deng Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska-Lincoln Ecological Time Scales, Stability, and Chaos Joint seminar with DE&DS and AMI (partially funded by PIMS )
Monday, Oct. 27	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Leeza Pachepsky Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara When individuals make a difference
Monday, Nov. 3	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Prof. Pauline van den Driessche Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Victoria Epidemic thresholds
Monday, Nov. 10	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Remembrance Day - No seminar this week
Monday, Nov. 17	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Prof. Fangliang He Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and Landscape Modeling Department of Renewable Resources University of Alberta Occupancy, spatial variance, and the abundance of species
Monday, Nov. 24	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Bernard Roitberg Behavioral Ecology Research Group Department of Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University The importance of behavior to malaria epidemiology (Partially funded by PIMS)
Monday, Dec. 1	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Hongmei Zhu Departments of Radiology and Clinical Neurosciences University of Calgary, and Seaman Family MR Research Centre Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary A recent multi-scale time-frequency analysis and its biomedical applications
Tuesday, Dec. 2 AMI Seminar	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. Brian Sleeman EFF Distinguished Visitor Department of Applied Mathematics University of Leeds Partial differential equations of chemotaxis exhibiting blow-up, collapse , aggregation and spike behaviour.
Tuesday, Dec. 9	3:00 p.m.	CAB 657	Dr. James Watmough Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Brunswick Disease transmission in human populations: simple models of a complex system (partially funded by PIMS)