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Math Biology: Looking at the Future: Schedule

Wednesday, September 19
11:00am Shuttle to MBI from hotel
12:45-1:00pm Welcome and introductions
1:00-2:00pm Jim Collins: Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
2:30-3:30pm Nick Jewell: The Missing Step: Statistical Inference from Big Data
4:30-5:30pm Martin Nowak, Keynote Lecture (Jennings 001): Evolution of eusociality
5:30-6:30pm Reception (Jennings 001 Atrium) Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences
6:30pm Shuttle from MBI to hotel
Thursday, September 20
8:30am Shuttle to MBI from hotel
9:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:30am Emery Brown: The Mathematics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
11:00-12:00pm Nancy Kopell: Brain Rhythms in Health and Disease
2:00-3:00pm Philip Maini: Modelling invasive processes in biology
3:30-4:30pm Reka Albert: The mathematics of biological regulatory networks
5:00-7:00pm Poster session/reception (Jennings 3rd floor)
7:00pm Shuttle from MBI to hotel
Friday, September 21
8:30am Shuttle to MBI from hotel
9:00-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:30am Bill Bialek: Birds, brains, and B-cells: Statistical mechanics for real biological networks
11:00-12:00pm Lior Pachter: The human genome: 10 years later
2:00-3:00pm Ingrid Daubechies: Dissimilarity distances between surfaces
3:30-4:30pm Simon Levin: Challenges In Mathematical Ecology: Scaling And Collective Phenomena
5:30-6:30pm Cocktails at Faculty Club
6:30-9:00pm Banquet at Faculty Club
9:00pm Shuttle from Faculty Club to hotel