2013 AARMS MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY WORKSHOP
Day 1 – Saturday July 27
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8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome
ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ECOLOGY - Amy Hurford (chair)
8:45 Mohammad El Smaily – Influence of a turbulent advection on KPP evolutions
9:15 Xiang-Sheng Wang – Pulsating waves of a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion system in a periodic
habitat
9:45 Group photo
10:00 Coffee
ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ECOLOGY - Yuan Yuan (chair)
10:30 Holly Moeller – Optimal investment in a multi-mutualist system: trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi
11:00 Linda Allen – Relations between deterministic and stochastic thresholds for disease extinction
12:00 Lunch
ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ECOLOGY - James Watmough (chair)
1:30 Xiaoqiang Zhao – A reaction-diffusion Lyme disease model with seasonality
2:00 Mark Lewis – Mathematics behind stream population dynamics
3:00 Coffee
ECOLOGY AND SPATIAL ECOLOGY - Xiaoqiang Zhao (chair)
3:30 Jian Fang – Mathematical modelling of invasive Asian clam in an unbounded one-dimensional habitat
4:00 Ali Gharouni – Integrodifference model of biological invasion of European green crab (Carcinus maenas):
calculation and sensitivity analysis of invasion speed
4:30 Odo Diekmann – Infectious disease transmission on dynamic sexual networks
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EPIDEMIOLOGY - Hongying Shu (chair)
8:45 Xuilan Lai – Modeling repulsion of superinfecting virions
9:15 No talk
9:45 Group photo
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Yijun Lou – Cost-effectiveness evaluation of gender-based vaccination programs against sexually
transmitted infections
11:00 No talk
12:00 Lunch
EPIDEMIOLOGY - Xiang-Sheng Wang (chair)
1:30 No talk
2:00 No talk
3:00 Coffee
3:30 Xi Huo – Investigating contact tracing and quarantine in the control of epidemic diseases
4:00 Kaushik Gorahava – Controlling Leishmaniasis transmission in India by systematic insecticide allocation
4:30 No talk
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NEURAL SIGNALLING - Lin Wang (chair)
8:30 Israel Ncube – Hopf bifurcation in a neuronal network with distributed delay
9:00 Yuan Yuan – Homogeneous auxin steady states and spontaneous oscillations in flux-based auxin transport
models
CELLULAR PROCESSES AND CANCER - Lin Wang (chair)
9:30 Rebecca Everett – Predicting the time and mechanism for resistance in prostate cancer patients
undergoing androgen suppression therapy
10:00 Coffee
CELLULAR PROCESSES AND CANCER - Urszula Ledzewicz (chair)
10:30 Heinz Schaettler – Tumor microenvironment and anti-cancer therapies: an optimal control approach
11:00 Edward Allen – Application, derivation, and computation of continuous- and discrete-delay SDE models
in mathematical biology
12:00 Lunch
CELLULAR PROCESSES AND CANCER - David Iron (chair)
1:30 Urszula Ledzewicz – Optimal control of cell migration in Glioblastoma
2:00 Philip Maini – Modelling collective cell movement
3:00 Coffee
CONSUMER-RESOURCE DYNAMICS - Yijun Lou (chair)
3:20 Angela Peace – A stoichiometric producer-grazer model incorporating the effects of excess food-nutrient
content on consumer dynamics
3:50 Shawn Leroux – A stoichiometrically-explicit model for predator control of ecosystem nutrient cycling
4:30 No talk
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PATTERN FORMATION - Chunhua Ou (chair)
8:30 Wenying Feng – Turing instability for a two-innovation diffusion system
9:00 Marina Ferreira – Binding in pattern formation
9:30 David Iron – Dynamics of a model of signal transduction in a 3 dimensional domain
10:00 Coffee
10:30 No talk
11:00 No talk
12:00 Lunch
POPULATION DYNAMICS - Jian Fang (chair)
1:30 John McKay – Modeling minority group influence on larger community behavior: measles vaccine refusal
and ant networks as examples
2:00 No talk
3:00 Coffee
3:20 Hongying Shu – Global dynamics of the Nicholson blowflies equation revisited: onset and termination of
nonlinear oscillations
3:50 Fang Yu – Bifurcation analyses for a diffusive plant-herbivore model with a non-proportional numerical
response
4:30 No talk
Sunday IIC-2001
4:30 (public lecture) Simon Levin – Challenges in mathematical ecology: scaling and collective phenomena
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POPULATIONS, METAPOPULATIONS AND DISPERSAL - Wenying Feng (chair)
8:30 Easton White – Metapopulation dynamics of the American pika
9:00 Yun Kang – Dynamics of intraguild predation models
9:30 Yuxiang Zhang – Stability and synchronization of a predator-prey metacommunity model with spatial
dispersal and travel time delay
10:00 Coffee
Amy Hurford/Xiaoqiang Zhao (chair)
10:30 Xiaoying Wang – Two patch predator-prey model with adaptive movement of predators
11:00 Steve Cantrell – Nonlinear diffusion and resource matching in population dynamics
12:00 Farewell
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EVOLUTION - Shawn Leroux (chair)
8:30 Frederic Hamelin – Parasites also have sex: consequence on host-parasite population dynamics
9:00 Amy Hurford – Immune evasion and the evolution of molecular mimicry in parasites
9:30 Pawel Zwolenski – Phenotypic evolution in hermaphroditic populations
10:00 Coffee
10:30 No talk
11:00 No talk