An international
conference and LMS workshop
Mathematical Models of Collective Dynamics
in Biology and Evolution
– MDBE’09
University of
Leicester (UK), May 11-13, 2009
Organiser: Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester)
Advisory
Scientific Committee
(in alphabetic order):
Alexander
Gorban
(Leicester, UK)
Michel Langlais (Bordeaux, France)
Philip
Maini
(Oxford, UK)
Horst
Malchow
(Osnabrueck, Germany)
Jonathan Sherratt (Edinburgh, UK)
Nanako Shigesada (Kyoto, Japan)
Vitaly Volpert (Lyon, France)
Honorary
Lecture:
David Rand (Warwick, UK)
Confirmed
plenary speakers:
Faina Berezovskaya (Washington DC,
USA)
Daniel Grunbaum (Seattle, USA)
Alan
Hastings
(Davis, USA)
Georgy Karev (NIH, USA)
John King (Nottingham, UK)
Anatoly
Neishtadt
(Loughborough, UK)
Ezio Venturino (Turin, Italy)
Sponsored
by
the London Mathematical Society and the University of Leicester
NEW: Final Programme!
The scope of the
conference
is outlined by (although not necessarily restricted to) the following topics:
* ecology and epidemiology
* interface between ecology and
evolution
* pattern formation and morphogenesis
* collective cells dynamics and
applications to tumour growth
The
talks are expected to be mostly grouped around these subject areas. However, we
will be ready and willing to consider any submission of a potentially high
scientific merit which does not exactly fall into the list above.
In
order to encourage a wide participation of PhD students as well as early career
researchers, there will be a poster session organised during the conference.
For UK research PhD students, partial financial support is possible to
contribute to the travel or accommodation expenses.
To
register, please send a message to sp237@le.ac.uk (Sergei Petrovskii)
with a title and a brief abstract of your presentation (one page at most, in a
camera-ready format, either pdf or Word), clearly indicating whether it is
intended to be a talk or a poster. Also, in case there is more than one author,
please indicate it very clearly who is actually going to present the work.
The
registration and abstract submission deadline is March 1, and the decision of
acceptance will be made by March 15, 2009.
Download
the registration form here.
There
will be a small registration fee of 50 GBP to be paid either by a credit card (recommended; please find
the payment form here) or by cash upon arrival.
In
case you are paying by a credit card, please send the payment form with your details
to Dr. Sergei Petrovskii, either by post to
Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, England
(NOT to the address shown on the form) or by fax to +44 (0)116 252 3915.
Accommodation
information:
please find a list of suitable hotels here.
To
learn more about the University of Leicester, please visit http://www.le.ac.uk/external/
About the city:
Leicester
is one of the oldest English cities with over a thousand years of history.
Modern Leicester is a lively, multi-cultural city. Its population is nearly
300,000 making it the tenth largest city in England. Leicester has a huge
choice of pubs, clubs, restaurants, cinemas and theatres as well as excellent
shopping - from one of Europe's oldest markets to new shopping malls.
Leicester
is the home to the National Space Centre. It also boasts to possess one of the
largest pieces of Roman architecture in Britain (at the Jewry Wall Museum), and
the largest collection of German Expressionist art in the country.
Leicester
is in the heart of England with excellent communications by road, air and rail.
In particular, Leicester is less than one hour of travel by coach from East
Midlands, about 1.5 hours by train from London Luton and Birmingham
International, and within 2.5 hours by train from Heathrow and London Stansted.
To
learn more about the city, please visit http://www.le.ac.uk/leicester