On open graduate course in biomathematics - anybody can join the lectures

Gothenburg 2013-2014
(This series of lectures can also be seen as a nice preparation for the European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology here in Gothenburg in June)

Selected Tuesdays at 13.15-14.15 at Mallvinden, M (see below), or Seminar room MVL14  , Mathematical Sciences

Mallvinden

Possible dates
Room
Name
Affiliation
Title
22/10
M
Torbjörn Lundh
Math.Sci. Gothenburg
Morphometrics
Assignment

See the hands at this link.

29/10
S



12/11
MVL15



26/11
obs, odd time:
10.15-11.15

M
Dan-E. Nilsson
Lund Vision Group
Pelagic vision
10/12
M



17/12
S
Kolbjörn Tunström Fysisk resursteori, Energi och Miljö Inferring the structure and dynamics of interactions in schooling fish
21/1
S
Åke Brännström
IceLab, Umeå
Modelling the ecology and evolution of communities
28/1
M
Jörgen Ripa
ThePEG, Lund
Evolution in Stochastic Environments
18/2 S
Philip Murrey
Dundee
A developmental application of Burger's equation
4/3
S
Eva Kisdi
Helsinki
Adaptive dynamics
18/3
S
Philip Maini Oxford Modelling collective cell behaviour in biology

Collective cell motion arises in biology during normal development and during disease. We review recent work in a number of different
biological applications including the acid-mediated cell invasion hypotheses in cancer, epithelial tissue movement in the growing mouse embryo, and
cranial neural crest cell invasion. The models are, respectively, coupled
systems of partial differential equations, vertex-based cell movement model,
and hybrid agent-based model. We show that the models supply insights to
the biology and that, in the very simplest settings, these seemingly very
different models can all be represented at the tissue level as nonlinear reaction-diffusion models in which the nonlinearity in diffusion coefficients encapsulates the cell-level (local) behaviour assumptions.


1/4
S
Lars Carlsson
AstraZeneca, Mölndal
Conformal Prediction in Drug Discovery
22/4
M
Philip Gerlee
Integrated Mathematical Oncology,  Tampa, FL
Cancer Models
6/5
M
David Sumpter
Uppsala (my dear Alma Mater)
Collective Behaviour
27/5






COURSE DESCRIPTION
 
We suggest a low intensity course for the academic year 2013-2014 that will give an overview of topics within the field of biomathematics at an international state-of-the art. At the same time it will give the students a solid preparation for the large European conference on biomathematics that  is arranged every third year. This time it is our turn here in Gothenburg June 14-19, 2014, right at the end of the course.

The idea is to pick a series of internationally renowned biomathematicains invite them here to give a seminar and to pose a related one-credit assignment for the students to hand in to the examiner. We will in fact ask the guest lecturer to deliver two assignments: one for the graduate student who is theoretically inclined (e.g. mathematics, physics, computer science), and one for the student that has a more applied background (e.g. marine ecology, chemistry, zoology) . We will also encourage working in pair if it is a cross-disciplinary pair addressing both type of assignments.

We have been picking out a list of invitees that we believe would both accept the invitation and be suitable in that they all are excellent lecturers and together give a wide overview of the current state in the field.

After seven assignments has been graded and accepted, the graduate student  will get 7.5 credits.


Torbjörn Lundh,
torbjrn@chalmers.se