Mathematical Biology Seminar Series

Winter 2011

Date

Time & Location

Speaker and Title

Jan 17 3pm
457 CAB

Yu Jin, U Alberta
Spread and persistence of stream species

Jan 24 3pm
457 CAB

Alex Potapov, U Alberta
Modeling of Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer Population

Jan 31 3pm
457 CAB

Josie Hughes, U Toronto
Patterns and processes in outbreaking forest insect population dynamics

Feb 7
3pm
657 CAB

Maryna Yaskina, U Alberta
Applications of Fourier Analysis to Convex Geometry

Feb 14 3pm
657 CAB

Mario Pineda-Krch, U Alberta
Of speciations and extinctions - Evolutionary diversification under seasonally varying reproduction

Feb 21 3pm
657 CAB

HOLIDAY

Feb 28 3pm
657 CAB

Hao Wang, U Alberta
On the "Strict Homeostasis" hypothesis

Mar 7 3pm
657 CAB

Russell Greiner, U Alberta
Towards patient-specific treatment: Medical applications of machine learning

Mar 14
3pm
657 CAB

Mark Lewis, U Alberta
Models and Data for Invasive Spread Across Lake Networks

Mar 21
3pm
657 CAB

Thomas Hillen, U Alberta
Cancer Stem Cells and the Tumor Growth Paradox

Mar 28
3pm
657 CAB

Adriana Dawes, U Alberta
Par protein positioning in the early C. elegans embryo

Apr 4
3pm
657 CAB
Jeremy Fox, U Calgary
Evolutionary effects of competition between nutrient-limited consumers: On balanced diets and diversification

Apr 11

4:30 pm
CCIS
1-440

Mark Lewis, U Alberta
CRM, Fields, PIMS Prize Lecture
The Mathematics Behind Biological Invasion Processes

Fall 2010

Date

Time & Location

Speaker and Title

Sept 13

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Jeanette Wheeler, U Alberta
Temperature dependent growth and implications for population dynamics in an alpine butterfly

Wed Sept 15

4 - 5 pm
CCIS 1440

Mark Lewis, U Alberta
Plagued by numbers: Mathematical insights on disease dynamics and biological invasions

This is a public lecture to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences

Sept 20

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Sharon Bewick, U Tennessee
A Mechanistic Approach to Modeling Ant Communities Under Warming Regimes

Sept 27

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Sally Otto, U British Columbia
Inferring the past for traits that alter speciation and extinction rates

Fri Oct 1

3:00 p.m.
373 CAB

Different
Room#

Joint AMI/PIMS/MathBio Seminar
Luigi Preziosi,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Cell Adhesion and Re-organisation in a Multiphase Model Describing Tumour and Tissue Growth

Oct 4

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Mina Teicher, Bar-Ilan U, Israel
Synchronization in neural activity

Oct 18

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Christina Surulescu, U Stuttgart, Germany
Cell dispersal models: a nonparametric approach

Oct 25

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Alan Hastings, U California (Davis)
U of Alberta Distinguished Guest Speaker
Mathematical Biology Seminar
Stochastic population dynamics: The role of different kinds of stochasticity in time and space

Thurs Oct 28
Note different location

12:30 pm
236 Earth Sci Bldg

Alan Hastings, U California (Davis)
U of Alberta Distinguished Guest Speaker
Renewable Resources Seminar
Bioeconomics and optimal control of spread of invasive species

Fri Oct 29
Note different location

12:00 pm
M145 Bio Sci Bldg

Alan Hastings, U California (Davis)
U of Alberta Distinguished Guest Speaker
Biology 632 Seminar
Design of marine protected area

Nov 1

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Russell Greiner, U Alberta
Introduction to Bayesian Belief Nets

Nov 8

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt U, Edinborough
Integration of Theory and Experiment in Models for Embryonic Development

Nov 15

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Leonid Hanin, Idaho State U
Distribution Of The Number Of Tumor Cells Surviving Fractionated Radiation

Nov 22

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Juan Carlos Chimal
National Politechnique Institute of Mexico
Analysis and simulation of kinetic models for brain tumor growth

Nov 29

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Kerry Anderson, NRCan-RNCan
A climatologically based long-range fire growth model

Dec 8
(Wed)

3:00 pm
657 CAB

Stuart Hurlbert, San Diego State University
The logical incoherence of modern statistical practice

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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