The aim of this three-week summer school and workshop is to connect students and researchers in the biological sciences with students and researchers in various areas of mathematics. Current and relevant problems in the biological sciences will be presented, and some advanced mathematical techniques that have recently been used in the study of these problems will be showcased.

Organizing Committee

Jacob Palis Jr., (IMPA)
Jair Koiller (LNCC;FGV)
W. Zin (IBCCF)
Jorge P. Zubelli (IMPA)

Minicourses

Fabio Chalub (Lisbon) A tutorial on game theory (taught in Portuguese)
Karl Sigmund (Vienna), Evolutionary game theory I (minicourse)

Speakers

Karl Sigmund (Vienna) Modeling public goods games
Jerson Lima (UFRJ) Protein conformation diseases
Martin Nowak (Harvard), Virus dynamics
Michael Forger (USP), The search for symmetries in the genetic code: Finite groups.
Franziska Michor (Harvard), Somatic evolution of cancer
José F. Fontanari (IFSC-USP), Zipf's law, language and population genetics.
Rita Zorzenon (UFPE), Pattern formation in a model describing the dynamics of HIV infection
Martin Nowak (Harvard), Evolutionary graph theory
Hyun Mo Yang (UNICAMP), Mathematical Epidemiology of Directly Transmitted Infectious Diseases
Rita Zorzenon (UFPE), A tutorial on immunology and epidemiology
Christoph Hauert (UBC) , Effects of population structures on the evolution of cooperation
Rita de Almeida (UFRGS), Information space dynamics for neural networks
Fabio Chalub (Lisbon) Introduction to Chemotaxis
Yasmin Dolak (Vienna), An advection-dominated model for chemotaxis
Peter Markowich (Vienna), Kinetic Models for Chemotaxis
Hofbauer (Vienna), Intermingled basins for two species competition systems
Paulo M. Oliveira (IF-UFF), Simple Bit-String Speciation Model
José Soares Andrade Jr (UFC), Interplay between geometry and flow distribution in an airway tree
Michael Turelli (UCD), The consequences of genetic drift on polygenic characters under a general model of epistasis
Alexandre Colato (IFSC-USP), Accumulation of mutations in asexual lineages: The Muller's Ratchet
Fernanda Mello (HUCFF-UFRJ), Mathematical Models – Applications for Tuberculosis Control
J. Hofbauer (Vienna), Intermingled basins for two species competition systems
Michael Turelli (UCD), Polygenic variation maintained by balancing selection: Pleiotropy, sex-dependent allelic effects and GxE interactions

Round Table

IMPA, February 9, 2004 at 11 – 12:30 pm

Martin Nowak (Harvard) and Karl Sigmund (Vienna) – Viral Dynamics, Cancer Genetics and Evolutionary Dynamical Systems (including Game Theory and Applications and the Evolution of Language).
Carlos Morel (Fiocruz) – Advances in Science and Technology for Disease Control and a Bioscientists' View on New Resources in Mathematics/Biocomputing
Jerson Lima (UFRJ) – Thermodynamics of the Molecules of Life and Genomics and Protein Structures: Promises for a New Medicine.

Group Picture