Schedule for Workshop on Mathematical Models in Biology and Medicine

Location: Computing Commons, Room 120 (Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4)

February 3, 2006

8:20 Welcome, Dieter Armbruster, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at ASU:
8:30 Mary Ann Horn, Mathematics Department, Vanderbilt University, and NSF. Mathematical modeling and challenges in the development of drug resistance
9:20 Glenn Webb,  Mathematics Department, Vanderbilt University: Mathematical Models of Prion Proliferation
10:10 coffee break (20 minutes)
10:30 Hal Smith and Rosie Renaut.  Mathematical and computational biology at ASU
10:50 Poster presenters: Anuj Mubayi, Efrat Barzohar, Dobromir Dimitrov, Richard Strauss, Leslie Padrnos, Regina Ngo
11:10 Lydia Bilinsky  Not making matters worse: strategies to minimize the evolution of more dangerous cancers in chemotherapy
11:30 Luis F. Gordillo  Sustained oscillations via coherence resonance in SIR
11:50 lunch (on your own)
1:30 Zhilan Feng, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University:  Influence of anti-viral drug treatments on evolution of HIV-1 pathogen
2:20 Linda J. S. Allen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University: Deterministic and Stochastic Models for an Emerging Disease: Hantavirus
3:10 coffee break (20 minutes)
3:30 Poster presenters: Paula Piedrahita, Katherine Mason, Evan Rudibaugh, Jose Almora, Danielle Robbins, Erick Smith, R. Erik DeSimone, Anthony Billups, Asela Acosta, Russell Latterman
4:00 Mudassar Imran  A model of Antibiotic Resistance in Biofilm
4:20 Yun Kang  Dynamics of a discrete two dimensional stoichiometric producer-grazer model: Chaotic extinction and noise effect
4:40 Roxana Lopez-Cruz   Structured SI epidemic models with applications to HIV epidemic
5:00 Tufail Malik  A Resource-based Model of Microbial Quiescence
6:30- 8:30 - 8:30, Poster Session and Reception at Decision Theater located at 21 E 6th Street, Suite 126A Tempe, AZ 85281. Decision theater tour.  Winners: Dobromir Dimitrov, Russell Latterman, Katherine Mason, Anuj Mubayi, Paula Piedrahita

February 4, 2006

8:30 H. T. Banks, Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State U. Estimation and Prediction with HIV Treatment Interruption Data.
9:20 Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Los Alamos National Laboratory. The pace of life in the city: urban population size dependence of the dynamics of disease, crime, wealth and creativity
10:10 Clinton C. Mason  Improved Modeling of the Glucose-Insulin Dynamical System Leading to a Diabetic State
10:30 coffee break (20 minutes)
10:50 Karen R. R´ıos-Soto, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Michael G. Neubert, Edriss S. Titi and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu  Epidemic Spread in Populations at Demographic Equilibrium
11:10 Eunha Shim  A model for rotavirus infection and its vaccination
11:30 Wolfgang Stefan  Improving the image quality of medical images
11:50 lunch (on your own)
1:30 Irakli Loladze, Department of Mathematics University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Patterns in molecules and oceans: linking cellular machinery to global N:P ratios
2:20 Bingtuan Li, Department of Mathematics , University of Louisville. Spreading speeds and traveling waves in cooperative models
3:10 coffee break (20 minutes)
3:30 Abdessamad Tridane  Mathematical Analysis of the interaction of cytotoxic T Lymphocyte and epithelial cells in the influenza infection
3:50 Hao Wang  Top-down Trophic Dynamics produce the 4-year Lemming Cycle and the 10-year Snowshoe Hare Cycle: the maturation delay of predators and the functional response control prey population cycle
4:10 Xiaohong Wang  On the role of cross-immunity and vaccines on the survival of less fit flu-strains
4:30 Craig Thalhauser  The Trees for the Forest: A Discrete Cell Model of Tumor Growth, Development, and Evolution
4:50 Mary Ann Horn, Mathematics Department, Vanderbilt University, and NSF. Mathematical biology and NSF.
5:20 Workshop ends. Reception at Carlos' home at 8pm: 1937 E Myrna Ln, Tempe, AZ 85284. 480-345-4038

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