PIMS Mathematical Biology Seminar Series

Winter 2009

Date	Time & Location	Speaker and Title
Jan 5	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Julien Arino University of Manitoba Special Talk The spread of infectious diseases in the global air transportation network
Jan 12	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Pak-Wing Fok California Institute of Technology Special Talk Search of DNA repair enzymes by a Charge Transport mechanism
Jan 19	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Peter Hinow University of Minnesota Special Talk Analysis of a model for transfer phenomena in biological populations
Jan 26	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Hao Wang Georgia Tech Special Talk Modeling and dynamics of trophic interactions with explicit consideration of light and nutrients in aquatic ecosystems
Feb 2	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Mark Lewis University of Alberta Population spread and linear predictability*
Feb 9	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Yu Jin University of Alberta Evolution Dynamics of Biological Systems with Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneities
Feb 16	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Reading Week
Feb 23	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Morris Flynn University of Alberta Underwater breathing. The mechanics of plastron respiration by aquatic arthropods
Feb 24	3:30 pm 657 CAB	Xin-Sheng Hu University of Alberta Seed and pollen dispersal in expanding a species' range
Feb 26	3:30 pm 657 CAB	Nikolay Strigul Stevens Institute of Technology Scaling up from trees to forests: Tractable macroscopic equations for forest dynamics
Mar 2	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Martin Srayko University of Alberta Microscopy and modeling of asymmetric cell division in the C. elegans one-cell embryo
Mar 9	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Adriana Dawes University of Alberta Dynamics of alpha-catenin at adherens junctions of polarized epithelial cells: It's all about the flux
Mar 16	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Sandi Merchant University of British Columbia Wavetrain selection following predator invasions in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems
Mar 23	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Peter Molnar University of Alberta Modelling Future Impacts of Climate Change and Harvest on the Reproductive Success of Female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus)
Mar 30	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Tamara Romanuk Dalhousie University Invasions in complex ecological networks

Fall 2008
Date	Time & Location	Speaker and Title
Sept 8	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Thomas Hillen University of Alberta Mathematical Modelling of the Propagation of Forest Fires
Sept 15	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Diana White University of Alberta Modeling Body Composition with Special Attention to Visceral Adiposity
Sept 22	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Anita Kettemann University of Stuttgart A mathematical model for mesenchymal and chemosensitive cell dynamics in tissue networks
Sept 29	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Pierre Magal L'universit du Havre P-gp transfer and acquired multi-drug resistance in tumors cells
Oct 6	3:00 pm 657 CAB	José-Leonel Torres Instituto de Ecología, AC, Mexico Structurally stable ecosystems and their transitions
Oct 15 (Wed)	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Michael Baake University of Bielefeld, Germany Recombination dynamics in population genetics
Oct 20	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Caroline Bampfylde Alberta Environment Part A: Stage-structured intraguild predation dynamics for rusty crayfish and smallmouth bass: What is the most efficient control method? Part B: Ecosystem modelling for Northeast Alberta
Oct 27	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Carly Strasser Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Estimating demographic parameters of the endangered North Atlantic right whale using capture-recapture data
Nov 3	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Jon Jacobsen Harvey Mudd College Traveling Waves in a Viscoelastic Generalization of Burgers' Equation
Nov 17	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Jack Tuszynski University of Alberta The biophysical properties of microtubules and their nano-technological potential
Nov 24	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Vahid Rezania University of Alberta Polymerization of Microtubules: A Quantum Field Theory Approach
Dec 1	3:00 pm 657 CAB	Mario Pineda-Krch University of Alberta Ecological dynamics and the basis for sympatric phenotypic diversification
Dec 8	3:00 p.m. CAB 657	Bill Fagan University of Maryland Riverine Landscapes: Exploring Connectivity, Extinction Risk, and Biogeography in an Alternative Geometry

Contact: Maryna Yaskina
Centre for Mathematical Biology
Dept. of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta
igtcmathbio@math.ualberta.ca -- 780-492-4756

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