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CTW: Mathematical Developments Arising from Biology: Schedule

Schedule
Sunday, November 8
8:00am Shuttles leave for MBI from Crowne Plaza and University Plaza
8:50-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky and Organizers
9:00-9:45am Mike Reed: Deep PDE Challenges in Biology
9:45-10:30am Break
10:30-11:15am Christine Heitsch: Meanders and RNA Folding
11:30-12:15pm Konstantin Mischaikow: Databases for the Global Dynamics of Multiparameter Nonlinear Systems
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:45pm Christophe Soule: On the role of positive circuits in gene networks
3:00-3:45pm Natalia Komarova: Mathematical problems in cancer modeling
3:45-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:15pm Lior Pachter: Combinatorics of sequence alignment
5:30 - 6:15pm TBA
6:30pm Shuttles from MBI to hotels
Monday, November 9
8:00am Shuttles leave for MBI from Crowne Plaza and University Plaza
9:00-9:45am Martin Wechselberger: A geometric twist on tactically-driven cell migration
9:45-10:30am Break
10:30-11:15am Glenn Tesler: Detection of pairwise gene interactions in GWAS data using a decomposition of the Pearson X2 statistic on contingency tables
11:30-12:15pm Carina Curto: Geometry of fixed points in threshold-linear networks
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-2:45pm Jonathan Mattingly: Stochastic fluctuations in bio chemical networks
3:00-3:45pm Gheorghe Craciun: Global injectivity criteria inspired by properties of biochemical networks
3:45-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:15pm Alain Goriely: The differential geometry of biological growth
5:15-7:00pm Reception in the MBI Lounge
7:00pm First group of shuttles from MBI to hotels
7:15-8:15pm Discussion - What next?
8:15pm Second group of shuttles from MBI to hotels
Tuesday, November 10
8:00am Shuttles leave for MBI from Crowne Plaza and University Plaza
9:00-9:45am Gunnar Carlsson: Topology and topography of biomedical data
9:45-10:30am Break
10:30-11:15am Doron Levy: Group Dynamics in Phototaxis
11:30-12:15pm John Rhodes: Mathematical Problems arising in Phylogenetics
12:30pm Shuttles from MBI to hotels