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CTW: New Developments in Dynamical Systems Arising from the Biosciences

Schedule
Tuesday, March 22
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-9:30am John Guckenheimer: Math to Bio and Bio to Math
9:45-10:15am Ingo Fischer: Synchronization phenomena in delay-coupled network motifs
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Adilson Motter: Identifying Compensatory Perturbations in Biological Networks
11:45-12:15pm Arthur Sherman: Cross-currents between Biology and Mathematics on Models of Bursting
12:30-3:30pm Lunch break
3:30-4:00pm Rachel Kuske: Noise sensitivities in systems with delays and multiple time scales
4:15-4:45pm Lev Tsimring: Generation and synchronization of oscillations in synthetic gene networks
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, March 23
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Steve Coombes: Waves in random neural media
9:45-10:15am Peter Szomlyan: Geometric singular perturbation theory beyond the standard form
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Vivien Kirk: Designing experiments using mathematics: nonlinear dynamics and calcium oscillations
11:45-12:15pm Jan Sieber: Periodic orbits in problems with state-dependent delays
12:30pm Lunch break
***Afternoon free for discussions.***
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session
Poster presenters
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, March 24
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Evelyn Buckwar: Stability analysis for stochastic delay differential equations
9:45-10:15am Dmitri Breda: Numerics for stability analysis of delay systems and population dynamics
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Ale-Jan Homburg: Bounded noise: bifurcations of random dynamical systems
11:45-12:30pm Sue Ann Campbell: Distributed Delays in Biological Systems
12:30pm Lunch break
***Afternoon free for discussions.***
Friday, March 25
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Bard Ermentrout: Noisy oscillators
9:45-10:15am John White: Dynamic-clamp studies of neuronal synchronization
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Barbara Gentz: The effect of noise on mixed-mode oscillations
11:45-12:15pm Tony Humphries: Dynamics of Differential Equations with Multiple State Dependent Delays
12:30-3:30pm Lunch break
3:30-4:00pm Dan Koditschek: Gaits, Gait Obstacles and Gait Assays
4:15-4:45pm Lai-Sang Young: Dynamics of neuronal networks as models of visual cortex
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Talk by Phil Holmes:From spiking cortical cells to decisions and actions: Some neuroscience problems that I don't really understand
Saturday, March 26
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am John Rinzel
9:45-10:15am Hinke Osinga: Computing 2D invariant manifolds: Can you do this?
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-11:30am Marty Golubitsky: Animal gaits and symmetries of periodic solutions
11:45-12:15pm Ronald Harris-Warrick: Modeling Neural Networks for Rhythmic Movements
12:45pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)