Joint 2012 MBI-NIMBioS-CAMBAM Summer Graduate Workshop
on Stochastics Applied to Biological Systems
(June 18-29, 2012)
The Workshop will be held at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and will have instructors from across North America whose research expertise is stochastic modeling in biological systems. Some of the topics to be covered include Markov chains, birth and death processes, branching processes, Brownian motion and diffusion processes, stochastic differential equations, and agent-based models. Applications of stochastic processes will come from epidemiology, ecology, phylogenetics, microbiology, evolutionary biology, and genetics. The workshop will consist of lectures on mathematical and statistical methods for stochastic processes in biological systems and daily computer and analysis activities. In addition, each student will work on a research project over the duration of the program with a team of four or five participants.
The Workshop will feature researchers from the mathematical and biological sciences. The following is a list of speakers:
- Ed Allen, Texas Tech
- Linda Allen, Texas Tech
- David Anderson, University of Wisconsin
- Louis Gross, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Steve Krone, University of Idaho
- Nicolas Lanchier, Arizona State
- Scott McKinley, University of Florida
- Dennis Pearl, Ohio State University
- Sebastian Schreiber, University of California, Davis
Applications received by January 31, 2012 will receive full consideration.
Members of the organizing committee are: Linda Allen (Texas Tech), Laura Kubatko (Ohio State University), Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee, Knoxville); Libby Marschall (Ohio State University), and Lea Popovic (Concordia University).
