Monday, May 11.

(Venue: Attenborough Tower Basement, University Film Theatre)

9:10-10:10 Registration.

10:10-10:20 Introduction & welcome address.

10:20-11:10 Plenary talk 1. John King: Mathematical modelling of tissue growth.

11:10-12:00 Plenary talk 2. Georgy Karev: Replicator equations and the principle of minimal production of information.

12:00-13:00 Lunch break

13:00-15:00 Contributed talks, Session 1 (Chair: Alexander Gorban).

13:00-13:30 Vitaly Volpert. Particle dynamics modelling of cell populations.

13:30-14:00 Dmitrii Logofet. Potential-growth indicator theorem: a non-statistical tool to tackle reproductive uncertainty.

14:00-14:30 Lars Rudolf. Determinants of food-web stability.

14:30-15:00 Beatriz Stransky. Modeling the in vitro population dynamics of epithelial cells.

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-16:30 Honorary lecture. David Rand: Invasion using microcorrelations in spatial and network games

17:00-19:00 Poster session & reception

(Venue: Michael Atiyah Building, room 119)

Tuesday, May 12

(Venue: Bennett, Lower Ground Floor, Lecture Theatre 3)

9:00-9:50 Plenary talk 3. Alan Hastings: The essential role of time and space in ecological understanding.

9:50-10:40 Plenary talk 4. Daniel Grunbaum: Towards a unified perspective on the mechanics of social animal groups.

10:40-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-13:00 Contributed talks, Session 2 (Chair: Horst Malchow).

11:00-11:30 Nanako Shigesada. How do directed movements of animals towards favorable habitats influence the spreading speed in a periodic patchy environment.

11:30-12:00 Weide Li. A cellular automaton model for two competitive populations with Allee effect and overcrowding effect.

12:00-12:30 Alla Mashanova. Density or perception of density? The effect of density-dependent dispersal on aphid population dynamics.

12:30-13:00 Hiromi Seno. A time-discrete model for the epidemic population dynamics.

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-14:50 Plenary talk 5. Ezio Venturino: Ecoepidemiology as a more realistic description of populations’ interactions.

14:50-15:15 Coffee break

15:15-17:15 Contributed talks, Session 3 (Chair: Vitaly Vopert).

15:15-15:45 Horst Malchow. Self-organization in models of predating, competing and diffusing populations.

15:45-16:15 Igor Sazonov. Travelling waves in a lattice of SIR nodes in approximation of small coupling.

16:15-16:45 Alexei Ryabov. Coevolutionary motion in a niche space model of ecological species interactions.

16:45-17:15 Michael Sadovsky. Non-diffusive migration modelling with global and local information access.

Wednesday, May 13

(Venue: Attenborough Tower Basement, Lecture Theatre 3)

9:00-9:50 Plenary talk 6. Faina Berezovskaya: Dynamic domains in 3D and 4D community models with prey dispersal and strong Allee effect.

9:50-10:40 Plenary talk 7. Anatoly Neishtadt: Adiabatic invariants.

10:40-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Contributed talks, Session 4 (Chair: Dmitrii Logofet).

11:00-11:30 Rachel Bearon. Individual to population models of swimming micro-organisms in fluid flow.

11:30-12:00 Nicola Lloyd. Comparing viral infection and predation as controls of harmful algal blooms.

12:00-12:30 Andrew Morozov. Influence of spatial heterogeneity on the type of zooplankton functional response: field studies and mathematical modelling

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Contributed talks, Session 5 (Chair: Hiromi Seno).

13:30-14:00 Terezie Stachova. The effect of plant species diversity on community productivity: a competition model.

14:00-14:30 Nikolay Zavalishin. Modelling travelling waves and spatial patterns in exploited food chains of a resource-consumer type.

14:30-15:00 Malay Banerjee. Spatial pattern formation in ratio-dependent model: moment-based analysis.

15:00-15:05 Closure & farewell.