1st Porto Meeting in Mathematics and Biology
Between 22-23 June 2015 the University of Port is organising 1st Porto Meeting in
Mathematics and Biology
http://cmup.fc.up.pt/cmup/biomath/index.html
The purpose of this meeting is to focus the attention on the many and varied opportunities to
promote applications of mathematics to biology.
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The meeting will be devoted to mathematical and computational modelling, analysis
and simulation (including agent-based modelling and simulation) of problems arising
in the context of biological applications.
One main purpose of this meeting is to encourage collaboration between research
centers in mathematics, computer sciences, physics and biology, located at the
University of Porto. We hope this is a good reason to begin joint research on
Mathematical and Computational Models in Biology.
There will be three short courses (see here), of three one-hour lectures each. These
will be given by invited distinguished researchers and should be specially designed to
attract undergraduate students to distinctive and relevant formation profiles, motivate
them during their study, and advance their personal training in Mathematics and
Biology.
The courses will be supplemented by contributed short talks by other participants and
posters of case studies.
This meeting is part of a series of initiatives to create cooperation between
mathematicians and biologists, of which we highlight the Joint Seminar IBMC/
CMUP "Bridges for Quantitative Biology" (see here)
Please help us promoting this event, in your institutions, through your own mailing lists and
social networks.
The meeting will be focused on short courses of three one-hour lectures each.
Official opening (22 June. 9h)
Prof Maria de Sousa (IBMC, Porto)
Main Speakers:
Carmen Molina- Paris (Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Leeds,
UK)
Minicourse "Stochastic birth and death processes in immunology"
David Harel (Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics The Weizmann Institute
of Science, Israel)
Minicourse "On the Full Organism Challenge: Or, Can we Computerize an Elephant?"
Ruy M. Ribeiro (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, USA)
Minicourse "Modeling viral dynamics: from ODEs to ABMs"
Round table with a debate on the subject "Mathematical Models and Clinical Aspects,
Epidemiological and Farmaco-economic: What relationship and what new possible
endpoints of the study" with the participation of several experts in HIV / AIDS (see here).
Abstracts <http://cmup.fc.up.pt/cmup/biomath/speakers_abstracts.html>
Registration <http://cmup.fc.up.pt/cmup/biomath/registration.html>
The meeting is free of charge.
Venue
Anfiteatro 0.07
Dep de Matemática da
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade doPorto
Rua do Campo Alegre, 687
4169-007 Porto
Informations - telm: 93 319 27 63
(How to get here <http://www.fc.up.pt/mat/index.php?id=223>