PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Friday July
12, 2002
Short Course "Introduction to the Mathematics of Biological
Complexity"
8:00-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-6:00 Lectures and Workshop Sessions
Saturday
July 13, 2002
8:00-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome and Introductions (413 A,B)
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk (413 A,B) - Roger
Nisbet, How useful for
ecologists are simple population models?
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30: Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Structured Population and Community Modeling and
Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 1 (413
A,B)
Contributed session - Cell and molecular biology (406)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Plenary talk (413A,B) - Michael I.
Miller, Computational anatomy:
an emerging discipline
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-5:15 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Education in Mathematical Biology
(413A,B)
Contributed session - Medical Biology (406)
4:45-5:15 Set-up of posters
5:15-7:30 Poster Session and Reception
7:30-8:00 Gene Bruce, QEIB, ITR and other math
biology opportunities at NSF: a question and answer session.(406)
7:30 - ? Informal musical jam
Sunday July
14, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk (413 A,B) - Sally
Blower, Predicting the
unpredictable: the transmission of drug resistant HIV
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Drug
Resistance (413A,B)
Contributed session - Ecology (Session 1)
(406)
12:30-2:30 Lunch and concurrent SMB Board Meeting
2:30-8:00 Tour of Museum of Appalachia or open
afternoon.
4:00-6:30 Reception in honor of Tom Hallam
(University Club, Neyland Drive and Kingston Pike)
Monday July
15, 2002
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Plenary talk (413 A,B) - Lisa Fauci, Integrative
models of swimming organisms
9:30-9:45 Coffee Break
9:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium: Computational Biofluid Dynamics
(406)
Minisymposium: Structured Population and Community Modeling and
Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 2
(413A,B)
Contributed session - Evolutionary Biology
(417)
12:00-1:30 Lunch - concurrent with Careers Lunch for
graduate students and post-docs
Careers Lunch (sponsored by CPS Innovations, Inc.) (404)
1:30-2:30 Plenary Talk (413A,B) - Simon Tavaré, Inference
from the fossil record: when was the last common ancestor of extant primates?
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-6:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium on Evolutionary Theory (413
A,B)
Contributed session - Physiology and Neurobiology
(417)
Contributed session - Biological Modeling - contributions in honor
of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday (406)
7:00 Conference
Banquet – Hilton Hotel - Avner Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute: Programs and Problems
Tuesday July
16, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk (413 A,B) – Lee
Segel, Controlling
neurotransmitter release
10:00-10:30 Open Meeting of the SMB (413
A,B)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-1:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Minisymposium on Cancer Modeling (413 A,B)
Contributed session – Epidemiology
(417)
Contributed session - Ecology (Session 2)
(406)
12:45-2:00
Closing Lunch