Initiate Focused Math-Bio Research Groups

The MBI is calling for proposals for Focused-Discovery Groups (FDG). The FDG idea is for a group of researchers from different institutions to get together at the MBI for a period of (typically) one week in order to discuss, intensively investigate, and aim to resolve a significant problem in the biosciences. The MBI will pay the local expenses of the participants, and will provide facilities (office space, computer support).

Proposals should be sent to the Director or one of the Associate Directors. A proposal should describe the problem to be addressed (one or two pages) and list the people who have agreed to participate.

The proposed dates of MBI residence for the FDG should be between six months and one year from the time of submission.

Coming up in the Fall Quarter, we will be having Focus Research Groups. Click the following links for more information:

Focus Group Meeting; October 20-24, 2008

Focus Group Meeting: Multiscale Methods in Biology; November 2-4, 2008

If you are interested in participating in these meetings please send your CV and an explanation of your interests to rebecca@mbi.osu.edu.

Suggest New Ideas and Programs

The MBI programs are aimed at bringing mathematical scientists and bioscientists together to interact on significant problems from the biosciences. It is expected that such activities will also open new research areas for mathematicians and statisticians.

The MBI wishes to encourage the mathematical sciences community and the biosciences community to solicit program ideas.

Your suggestions may be submitted in the form of a preproposal for

• a workshop that falls within a thematic year;
• a stand-along workshop;
• an extended program, several months to a year; and
• a summer education program.

We welcome ideas from the broad spectrum of mathematical biosciences: you may focus more on the mathematics/statistics motivated by biology, or on biological problems which will require the development of new mathematical/statistical methods.

Please submit your ideas in the form of a few pages describing the background and motivation, and what the program is going to accomplish.

If you want to suggest a specific workshop, we would like to have a list of organizers, a description of the workshop, and a tentative list of speakers and participants.

Please contact the Director or one of the Associate Directors as you develop your ideas for preproposal.