Scientific Programme

Date	Time and place		Speaker	Title
980402	15.15	S1	Mats Gyllenberg	On the mathematical formulation of structured population dynamics
980414	15.15	?	Marek Kimmel	Population Dynamics Coded in DNA: History of Growth and Migrations of Modern Humans
980421	15.15	?	Krishna Athreya	?
980423	15.15	?	Fima Klebaner	Density dependent branching processes as randomly perturbed maps of an interval
980504	15.15	?	Anthony G. Pakes	The Markov Branching Process with Harsh Catastrophes

Monday 11/5
Time	Speaker	Title of talk
8.00-9.00	Registration	_
9.00-9.15	Opening	_
Chairman: Hans Metz
9.20-9.50	Mats Gyllenberg	Metapopulation dynamics and current issues in ecology
10.00-10.30	Alan Hastings	The role of transient dynamics in population and community ecology
10.40-11.10	Coffee	_
Chairman: Alan Hastings
11.10-11.40	Steven Krone	Metapopulations and interacting particle systems
11.50-12.20	Patsy Haccou	Implications of environmental fluctuations for establishment probability
12.30-14.00	Lunch	_
Chairman: Patsy Haccou
14.00-14.30	Per Lundberg	Die Hard: the route to extinction in variable environments
14.40-14.55	Jörgen Ripa	The propagation and some implifications of environmental noise in ecological food webs
15.00-15.30	Coffee	_
Chairman: Uwe Roesler
15.30-15.45	Ali Falahati	Two-Sex Galton-Watson Branching Processes
15.50-16.20	Bernt Øksendal	A stochastic model for optimal harvesting of two competing species
16.30-16.45	Jonathan Alsop	Detecting population regulation via a nonlinear time series model
17.00-	Reception	Gibraltar Herrgård, Chalmers

Tuesday 12/5
Time	Speaker	Title of talk
Chairman: Glenn Webb
9.00-9.30	Fima Klebaner	Extinction in randomly perturbed Lotka-Volterra systems
9.40-9.55	Giovanna Chiorino	Asynchronicity in cell population dynamics: theoretical and experimental aspects
10.00-10.30	Ovide Arino	Asynchronicity in cell population dynamics: theoretical and experimental aspects
10.40-11.10	Coffee	_
Chairman: Anthony Pakes
11.10-11.40	Krishna Athreya	Random Iterations Approach to Branching Processes
11.50-12.20	Ziad Taib	A Branching Process Model with Mutation and Selection
12.30-14.00	Lunch	_
Chairman: Vladimir Vatutin
14.00-14.30	Serik Sagitov	Linear growth in population-size-dependent CMJ-processes
14.40-15.10	Dmitrii Silvestrov	Quasi- and pseudo-stationary phenomena in stochastic systems
15.20-15.50	Coffee	_
15.50-16.20	Peter Olofsson	Reducible branching processes: theory and applications
16.30-17.00	Göran Högnäs	Does a random environment increase the probability of extinction?

Wednesday 13/5
Time	Speaker	Title of talk
Chairman: Simon Tavare
9.00-9.30	Andrzej Polanski	On DNA Statistics in Growing Populations
9.40-9.55	Lars Rönnegård	Modelling Gene Flow and Population Dynamics in an Age-structured Population
10.00-10.30	Marek Kimmel	The coalescent, Fisher-Wright-Moran model, and Lyapunov Equation
10.40-11.10	Coffee	_
Chairman: Marek Kimmel
11.10-11.40	Ulf Dieckmann	Models of Adaptive Dynamics: Their Derivations and Relations
11.50-12.20	Hans Metz	Between Population Dynamics and Adaptive Dynamics
12.30-14.00	Lunch	_
Chairman: Ziad Taib
14.00-14.30	Simon Tavare	The age of a branching process: estimating the divergence time of primates
14.40-14.55	Chad Shaw	Relative information methods for DNA sequence data
15.00-15.30	Coffee	_
Chairman: Roland Sennerstam
15.30-15.45	Claire D. Sherman	Modelling Cell Cycle Regulation
15.50-16.20	Eric Renshaw	Stochastic Models for Nematode Infection in Ruminants
16.30-16.45	Sandra Catlin	A Stochastic Two-Colony Model for Stem Cell Production

Thursday 14/5
Time	Speaker	Title of talk
Chairman: Mats Gyllenberg
9.00-9.30	Glenn Webb	Mathematical Models of HIV Pathogenesis and Progression
9.40-9.55	Alma Barranco-Mendoza	Modelling the development of pre-invasive neoplastic bronchial epithelial lesions
10.00-10.15	Laurent Pujo-Menjouet	Stability and asymptotic behavior of a semilinear transport equation with delays modelling blood cell population
10.20-10.50	Coffee	_
Chairman: Olle Nerman
10.50-11.20	Roland Sennerstam	Cell Intermitotic Time Correlations, Genetic Inheritance and Leakage Between Cells and Cell Cycle Modelling
11.30-12.00	Marina Alexandersson	An Application of General Branching Processes to a Cell Cycle Model with Two Uncoupled Subcycles
12.00-12.30	Coffee	_
Chairman: Peter Jagers
12.30-13.00	Mikael Andersson	Stochastic Multitype Epidemic Models with Rare Contacts
13.10-13.40	John D. Biggins	Multi-type branching in varying environments
15.30 - 23.00	Dinner	Conference dinner at Marstrands Socitetshus

Friday 15/5
Time	Speaker	Title of talk
Chairman: Krishna Athreya
9.00-9.30	Vladimir Vatutin	The structure of genealogical trees of a subcritical branching process in random environment
9.40-10.10	Peter Jagers	Homogeneous growth and population size dependence
10.20-10.50	Coffee	_
Chairman: Fima Klebaner
10.50-11.20	Uwe Rösler	Some aspects of the weighted branching process
11.30-12.00	Anthony G. Pakes	Modelling Environmental Uncertainty in Birth-Death and Branching Processes