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CTW: Free Boundary Problems in Biology: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, November 14
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:00am Welcome and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:00-9:10am Overview of workshop: Avner Friedman
9:15-10:15am James Keener: The Dynamics of Mucus, or, Why the Stomach does not Digest Itself
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45-11:45am John King: Free boundary problems in biological tissue growth
11:45-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:30pm Ricardo Nochetto: Modeling and Computation of Biomembranes
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Tatiana Toro: Regularity for almost minimizers with free boundary
4:00-6:00pm Poster Session and Reception in the MBI Lounge
6:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, November 15
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Antonio Fasano: Modeling blood coagulation: recent trends and new ideas
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Zhan Chen: A hybrid model for tumor growth
11:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:30pm Xinfu Chen: Analysis of the Cahn-Hilliard Equation with Relaxation Boundary Condition Modeling Contact Angel
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Bei Hu: PDE Tumor models
4:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, November 16
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Miguel Herrero: Some Modelling Problems In Bone Repair
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15-11:15am Chuan Xue: Free boundary problems in modeling chronic wound healing
11:15-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-2:30pm Rodolfo Cuerno: Fluctuations in a moving boundary description of diffusive interface growth
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Arshak Petrosyan
4:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, November 17
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Alex Mogilner: Cell migration as a free boundary problem
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Henri Berestycki: Propagation of fronts in non homogeneous media and applications in medicine and biology
11:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:00pm Panel discussion with Antonio Fasano, Jim Keener, and Avner Friedman: What are the challenges (for a PDE person) to become a mathematical biologist?
3:00-4:00pm Short Talks
4:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, November 18
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:30am Short talk- Yangjin Kim: Free boundary problems in the early development of breast cancer
9:30-10:00am Short talk- Xiaoming Zheng: A viscoelastic model of capillary growth: derivation, analysis, and simulation
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-10:50am Pilhwa Lee: A few examples of moving boundary problems
10:50-11:35am Marco Fontelos: The structure of the quiescent core in rigidly rotating spirals in a class of excitable systems
11:45pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)