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Workshop 5: Spatial Models of Micro and Macro Systems: Schedule

Schedule
Monday, April 16
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:30-10:30am Steve Krone: Particle Systems and Reaction-Diffusion Equations: connecting micro and macro models
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-12:00pm Tex Cox: Survival and coexistence for a class of stochastic spatial models
12:00-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:00pm David Hiebeler: Biological Dispersal Strategies of Internet Worms
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:40pm Mark Lewis: First passage time in complex environments: Connecting random walks to functional responses
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, April 17
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Alan Hastings: Spatial population dynamics and uncertainty in Tribolium: Lab Experiments and Models
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Marissa Baskett
11:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Sebastian Schreiber
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:30pm Rebecca Tyson: Post-Harvest Diseases of Apples: From Spore Dispersal to Epidemiology
3:40-4:10pm Allison Shaw
4:20-4:50pm Ruth Baker: Models of cellular migration for cells of different shapes and sizes
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, April 18
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am John Novembre: Inference of migrations and dispersal in spatial population genetic models
10:10-10:40am Ben Kerr: Experimental ecology and evolution in metapopulations
10:40-11:10pm Break
11:10-12:10pm Steven Evans: Go forth and multiply?
12:40pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, April 19
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Simon Levin: Collective motion and collective decision-making
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Mercedes Pascual: Forest fires, cholera epidemics and spatial stochastic systems with critical transitions
11:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Daniel Grunbaum: Secondary characteristics of spatially and temporally heterogeneous populations
2:30-3:00pm Break
3:00-3:30pm Steve Cantrell: Evolution of dispersal and the ideal free distribution
3:40-4:10pm Daniel Remenik: Voter model perturbations and the evolution of the dispersal distance
4:20-4:50pm Bard Ermentrout: Weak and Slow: Spatial patterns in a heterogeneous environment
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, April 20
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Nicolas Lanchier: Two-strategy games on the lattice
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Rick Durrett: Evolving Voter Model
12:00pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)