Conference on Mathematics and Biology - SMB 2002 - General calendar

The schedule for the meetings has been finalized. Below follows the general outline of the Conference. Abstracts are now posted at Plenary Talk Abstracts and at All Symposium and Contributed Abstracts , the Conference program is posted at Detailed Conference Schedule and the final conference summary is posted at Program Overview

Note: All sessions will be held at the UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, 4th Floor


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
8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk - Roger Nisbet
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Structured Population and Community Modeling and Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 1 (Linda Allen, organizer)
Contributed paper session - Cell and molecular biology
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Plenary talk - Michael I. Miller
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-4:45 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Education in Mathematical Biology (John Jungck, organizer)
Contributed paper session - Medical Biology
4:45-5:15 Break and set-up of posters
5:15-7:30 Poster session and Reception
7:30 - ? Informal musical jam - bring a musical instrument, share songs, or stories

Sunday July 14, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk - Sally Blower
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Infectious Diseases and the Evolution of Drug Resistance (Sally Blower, organizer)
Contributed paper session - Ecology (session 1)
12:30-2:30 Lunch and concurrent SMB Board Meeting
2:30-8:00 Tour of Museum of Appalachia or open afternoon. (Note that this tour will be scheduled to overlap with a separately-sponsored reception in honor of Tom Hallam, so friends of Tom who wish to attend this reception should not plan to attend the tour.)

Monday July 15, 2002
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30 Plenary talk - Lisa Fauci
9:30-9:45 Coffee Break
9:45-12:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Computational Biofluid Dynamics (Eunok Jung, organizer)
Symposium on Structured Population and Community Modeling and Ecotoxicology in Honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday - Session 2 (Linda Allen, organizer)
Contributed paper session - Evolutionary Biology
12:00-1:30 Lunch - concurrent with a Careers lunch for graduate students
1:30-2:30 Plenary Talk - Simon Tavare'
2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-6:30 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Evolutionary Theory (Warren Ewens and Sergey Gavrilets, organizers)
Contributed paper session - Physiology and Neurobiology
Contributed paper session - Biological Modeling - contributions in honor of Tom Hallam's 65th Birthday
7:00 Conference Banquet - Avner Friedman (speaker)

Tuesday July 16, 2002
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:00 Plenary talk - Lee Segel
10:00-10:30 Open Meeting of the SMB
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-1:00 Concurrent Sessions:
Symposium on Cancer Modeling (Robert Gatenby, organizer)
Contributed paper session - Ecology (session 2)
Contributed paper session - Epidemiology
1:00-2:00 Closing Lunch