An International Workshop

 

Waves and patterns in models of population dynamics and evolution

University of Leicester (UK), March 7, 2007

 

Objectives:  Mechanisms and scenarios of pattern formation are at the focus of ecology and evolution, mathematical modelling being widely recognised as a powerful and convenient theoretical tool to address these issues. There has been growing understanding recently that there are many overlaps and feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary theory both in terms of spatial/temporal scales and in terms of relevant mathematical models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together a few leading researchers working in these fields in order to clarify state-of-the-art of these fields, to refine existing problems, to highlight promising recent findings and to outline possible future directions.

 

Organisers: Alexander Gorban (Leicester), Sergei Petrovskii (Leicester)

 

Keynote Speakers:

Ulrike Feudel (Oldenburg, Germany)

Nicholas Hill (Glasgow, UK)

Vincent Jansen (Royal Holloway, UK)

Henrik Jensen (London, UK)

Horst Malchow (Osnabrueck, Germany)

Vitaly Volpert (Lyon, France)

 

 

Workshop Site:  Michael Atyah Building, room 119 (see the campus map here)

 

 

Workshop Programme

 

  9:00 – 9:25 Registration, tea & coffee

 

  9:25 – 9:30 Welcome

 

  9:30 – 10:15 Opening Lecture. V.Volpert. On some models in population dynamics with nonlocal consumption of resources.

10:15 – 11:00 V.Jansen. The evolution of altruism through beard chromodynamics.

 

             11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break

 

11:15 – 12:00 H.Jensen. Lineage integrity in neutral evolution and temporal intermittency in co-evolution.

12:00 – 12:45 A.Gorban. Finite-dimensional asymptotics and emergence of optimality in general infinite systems with inheritance.

 

             12:45 – 14:15 Lunch

 

14:15 – 15:00 N.Hill. A maximum entropy closure for spatial moments in spatial ecology

15:00 – 15:30 A.Hirzel. Consumer-resource spatial dynamics in realistic landscapes.

15:30 – 16:00 M.Smith. Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of rodent populations: multiannual cycles and periodic travelling waves.

 

             16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30 – 17:15 U.Feudel. Spatio-temporal patterns in simple models of marine systems.

17:15 – 18:00 Closing Lecture. H.Malchow. Spatiotemporal patterns in deterministic and stochastic predation-diffusion systems with infected prey.

 

 

Abstracts

 

Travel directions

 

List of hotels

 

Maps

 

 

Contact: 

Dr. Sergei Petrovskii

Michael Attyah Building, room 208

Department of Mathematics

University of Leicester

Tel.: +44 (0) 116 252 3916

Fax: +44 (0) 116 252 3915

Email: sp237@le.ac.uk

http://www.math.le.ac.uk/PEOPLE/sp237