Biomathematics workshop and summer school
IMPA, February, 4 – 14 , 2003
The Workshop
Mathematics is having an ever more significant impact in the physical and biological sciences. This is leading to the fall of feudal boundaries between scientific disciplines and the resurgence of interest in the modern as well as the classical techniques of applied mathematics.
The purpose of this two-week workshop is two-fold: On one side it is intended to inspire students and practitioners in the biological sciences to incorporate advanced mathematical techniques in their approach to science. On the other side, it will try to expose research mathematicians from different fields to relevant as well as difficult problems arising from the biological sciences.
The basic format of the workshop, which will take place from Tuesday, Feb 4th till Friday, Feb 14th, will be as follows: Morning (10AM-12 noon) and afternoon (2PM-3PM) contributed presentations. Mini-courses by leading experts in biomathematics: Greg Huber (Boston), Martin Nowak (Harvard), Marcelo Magnasco (Rockefeller and ICTP). Ample time for discussion during the lunch breaks. It will draw upon the reservoir of students and researchers that are present at IMPA during the Summer Session, as well as the cooperation from other institutions in the Rio area, such as LNCC and Instituto de Biofisica (UFRJ) to cite a few. The applied topics that will be covered, include, but are not limited to: quasi-species and universal grammar, evolution of cooperation and fairness, virus dynamics, medical and microscopy imaging, chemotaxy, cell dynamics, biological modeling.
Attendance is open to the members of the scientific, technological, and academic community, and no registration process will take place. The workshop is included in the Millennium Initiative IM-AGIMB, whose sponsorship is gratefully acknowledged.
For further information please contact:
zubelli@impa.br, bevi@lncc.br, jair@impa.br
Minicourses
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Program
First Week
| Tue – Feb. 4 | Wed – Feb. 5 | Thu – Feb. 6 | Fri – Feb. 7 | |
| 10:00 – 11:00 AM Invited Presentations Room 228 |
A bioengenharia tecidual na medicina regenerativa. Antonio Carlos Campos Carvalho (IBCCF-UFRJ) |
Aplicações da Microscopia Analitica em Biologia Marcos Farina (Anatomia-UFRJ) |
Modelling Biological systems with delay differential equations. Coraci Malta, (IF-USP) |
Modelos de cadeias tróficas. Michel Iskin da Silveira Costa (LNCC) |
| 11:00 AM – Noon Invited Presentations Room 228 |
FREE | Genomic research activities at the bioinformatics laboratory- LABINFO-LNCC. Ana Teresa Ribeiro Vasconcelos (LNCC) |
Modelagem e dinâmica molecular aplicada a proteínas e membranas. Pedro Geraldo Pascutti (IBCCF-UFRJ) |
Numerical Solutions for Medical Applications in Electrical Impedance Tomography. Joyce S. Bevilacqua (SENAC-SP) |
| 12:00-2:00 PM Lunch |
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| 2:00 PM-3:00 PM Invited Presentations Room 236 |
Dinâmica não-linear de filmes líquidos de interesse biológico. Paulo M. Bisch (IBCCF-UFRJ) |
ATTENTION: Lecture transfered to Feb. 13th. |
Medidas de forma e textura no diagnóstico de nódulos pulmonares. Paulo Cezar Pinto de Carvalho (IMPA) |
Modelagem da Mecânica Respiratória Walter Zin (IBCCF-UFRJ) |
| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM Minicourses Audit. 1. |
Soft geometry: the mathematical bases of cellular structures Greg Huber |
Soft geometry: the mathematical bases of cellular structures Greg Huber |
Soft geometry: the mathematical bases of cellular structures Greg Huber |
Soft geometry: the mathematical bases of cellular structures Greg Huber |
Second Week
| Mon – Feb. 10 | Tue – Feb. 11 | Wed – Feb. 12 | Thu – Feb. 13 | Fri – Feb. 14 | |
| 10:00-11:00 AM Invited Presentations Room 228 |
Representacao fractal de membranas confinadas Luiz Bevilacqua (LNCC) |
Threshold conditions for infection persistence in complex host-vectors interactions. Eduardo Massad (FMUSP) |
FREE DAY | Movimento Biológico.
Jair Koiller |
Movimento Flagelar e o Motor Rotatório
Gerusa A. de Araújo (LNCC) |
| 11:00 AM – Noon Invited Presentations Room 228 |
Experimental Models of Epilepsy, Models What? Esper Cavalheiro (UNIFESP) |
Orientation and direction of modules in Cebus visual cortex determined by electrophysiological imaging: experimental and modeling constraints. (jt with A.C. Melo Diogo): Ricardo Gattass (UFRJ) |
FREE DAY | Global Stability of Steady Solutions for a Model in Virus Dynamics.
Hermano Frid Neto (IMPA) |
Crescimento aletório sobre uma estrutura celular e aspectos competitivos.
Leandro Pimentel (IMPA) |
| 12:00-2:00 PM Lunch |
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| 2:00-3:00 PM Invited Presentations Room 236 |
Mathematical challenges in biomedical imaging. Jorge P. Zubelli (IMPA) |
Quando Modelos Comportamentais Determinísticos Encontram Observações Empíricas: Métodos de Calibração Bayesianos Claudio Struchiner (FIOCRUZ) |
FREE DAY | Métodos Matemáticos no Estudo de Redes de Reações Bioquímicas.
Fernando de M C Vieira (IBCCF-UFRJ) |
O Impacto da Biologia Molecular na Pesquisa da Fisiologia Cardio-Vascular.
E. Krieger |
| 3:30-5:00 PM Minicourses Aud. 1 |
From quasispecies to universal grammar. Martin Nowak |
Evolution of cooperation and fairness. | FREE DAY | Mathematical models of cancer initiation.
Franziska Michor |
Virus dynamics. |
| 5:00-6:30 PM Minicourses Room 228 |
The dynamical basis of the auditory function. Part 1. Marcelo Magnasco |
FREE DAY | The dynamical basis of the auditory function. Part 2. Marcelo Magnasco |
Participants
Adan Corcho Fernandez, IMPA
Alberto Cappurro Stanham, USP
Alexandre Fontes da Fonseca, USP
Ana Maria Soares Luz, IMPA
Ana Teresa Ribeiro Vasconcelos LNCC
Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho IBCCF-UFRJ
Bernardo Nunes, IMPA
Carlos Vasquez, IMPA
Claudia de Lello C. Guedes, USP-ICB-LEMB
Claudio Struchiner FIOCRUZ
Coraci P. Malta, IF-USP
Dayse Haime Pastore, IMPA
Eduardo Massad FMUSP
Esper Cavalheiro UNIFESP
Fábio Chalub (Univ. de Viena)
Fernando de M C Vieira: IBCCF-UFRJ
Franziska Michor, Harvard University
Gerusa A. de Araújo (LNCC)
Greg Huber, Univ. of Massachusetts
Hermano Frid Neto IMPA
Jacob Palis, IMPA
Jair Koiller LNCC
Jorge P. Zubelli IMPA
Joyce S. Bevilacqua, SENAC-SP
Larry S. Liebovitch, Florida Atlantic University
Leandro Pimentel, IMPA
Leonardo Paulo Maia, IFSC/USP
Luiz Bevilacqua LNCC
Luiz Bladismir Ruiz Leal, IMPA
Mahendra Panthee, IMPA
Marcelo Magnasco, ICTP
Marcos Farina, Anatomia-UFRJ
Martin Nowak, Institute for Advanced Studies
Michel Iskin da Silveira Costa LNCC
Paulo Bisch IBCCF-UFRJ
Paulo Cezar Pinto de Carvalho IMPA
Pedro Geraldo Pascutti IBCCF-UFRJ
Raul A. Feijó, LNCC
Ricardo Gattass UFRJ
Walter Zin IBCCF-UFRJ
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OrganizersL. Bevilacqua (LNCC)
Jair Koiller(LNCC&FGV) W. Zin (IBCCF) Jorge P. Zubelli (IMPA) |
