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Workshop 3: Ecology and Control of Invasive Species, Including Insects

Schedule

Monday, February 21
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:15am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:15-10:15am Jonathan Sherratt: Spatiotemporal Dynamics Behind Invasions In Cyclic Populations
10:15-11:15am Sergei Petrovskii: Patchy Invasion: Exotic Spread of Exotic Species or a Paradigm Shift?
11:15-11:45am Break
11:45-12:30pm Group discussion: Complex spatio-temporal invasion dynamics (Facilitator: Michael Sieber)
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Frank Hilker: The effect of disease on invasions
3:00-4:00pm Jim Clark Beyond immigration: quantifying competition-environmental interactions that can allow a species to establish and thrive
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:15pm Group discussion: Changing environmental conditions and invasion success (Facilitator: Christina Cobbold)
5:15-7:00pm Reception and Poster Session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, February 22
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Hal Caswell: Invasion speeds and sensitivity analysis in variable environments
10:00-11:00am James Bullock: Applying wavespeed models to real-world issues: conservation, climate change and invasions
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:15pm Group discussion: Applying wavespeed models to the real world (Facilitator: Ingrid Parker)
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Alan Hastings: Dynamics and control of Spartina alterniflora and related issues
3:00-4:00pm Suzanne Lenhart: Optimal control of invasive models
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:15pm Group discussion: Controling invasion dynamics (Facilitator:James Watmough )
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, February 23
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Subhash Lele: Confronting perfect models with imperfect data using data cloning
10:00-11:00am Brian Dennis: Stochastic logistic model with environmental noise
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:30pm Horst Malchow: Predation, competition and infection in a noisy environment
12:30-1:15pm Group discussion: Reliable prediction and parameter estimation (Facilitator: TBA)
1:15-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-5:00pm Group discussion: Invasions and noisy environments (Facilitator: Subhash Lele)
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, February 24
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Michael Neubert: Sex-Biased Dispersal and the Speed of Two-Sex Invasions
10:00-11:00am Frithjof Lutscher: Integrodifference equations for invasive species - some recent developments
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:15pm Group discussion: New developments for integrodifference invasion models (Facilitator: Tim Reluga)
12:15-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm Karen Abbott: Effects of endogenous vs exogenous sources of spatial heterogeneity on population stability and persistence
3:00-4:00pm Bill Fagan: Reproductive Asynchrony, Allee Effects, and the Maintenance of a Geographic Range Boundary for a Pest Insect
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:15pm Group discussion: Range limits, stability and persistence (Facilitator: Tom Miller)
5:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, February 25
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Bernd Blasius: Marine bioinvasion in the network of global shipping connections
10:00-11:00am Mark Lewis: Models and Data for Invasive Spread Across Lake Networks
11:00-11:45am Group discussion: Invasions over networks (Facilitator: Rebecca Tyson)
11:45-12:15pm Break
12:15-1:00pm Closing remarks/Summary
1:15pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)