THEMATIC PROGRAMS

Numerical and Computational Challenges in Science and Engineering

Workshop on Computational Biology
November 29 - December 2, 2001
The Fields Institute, Second Floor

Organizers:
Jacques Bélair (Montreal), Leah Edelstein Keshet (UBC)
John Hsieh (Toronto), James Keener (Utah), Bill Langford (Guelph)

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Thursday November 29 Population and Disease Dynamics
9:30-10:20	REGISTRATION
10:20-10:30	OPENING REMARKS
10:30-11:00	Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba A deterministic model for assessing therapeutic strategies of HIV
11:00-12:00	Michael C. Mackey, McGill University Understanding Periodic Hematological Disease: Insights from Mathematics Translate to the Bedside
12:00-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:15	Steven Ruuth, Simon Fraser University Convolution-generated motion as a link between cellular automata and continuum pattern dynamics
2:15-3:00	Alf Gerisch, The Fields Institute Numerical Methods for the Simulation of Taxis-Diffusion-Reaction Systems
3:00-3:30	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30-4:30	Ross Cressman, Wilfrid Laurier University Spatial Patterns and Reaction-Diffusion Equations
Friday November 30 Population and Disease Dynamics
9:00 - 10:00	Leon Glass, McGill University Dynamics of Cardiac Arrhythmias
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:00	Xinzhi Liu, University of Waterloo Management of Biological Populations via Impulsive Control
11:00-11:30	Dong Liang, York University Travelling Waves and Numerical Approximations in A Reaction Advection Diffusion Model with Nonlocal Delayed Effects
11:30-12:00	Sven Sigurdsson, University of Iceland Discrete particle and continous density models of fish migration
12:00-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:30	Jacques Bélair, Université de Montréal Dynamical Modeling of Drug Delivery
2:30-3:00	John Hsieh, University of Toronto Estimation of HIV Infection Rates and Projection of AIDS Incidence from HIV/AIDS Diagnosis Data
3:00-3:30	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30-4:30	Jianhong Wu, York University Multiple periodic attractors in an excitatory delayed neural networks
4:30-6:30	Reception
Saturday December 1 Neural Dynamics
9:00 - 10:00	Eugene M. Izhikevich, The Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla, CA Computational Challenges in Bursting Dynamics
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:15	Andre Longtin, University of Ottawa Challenges in stochastic biodynamics: Ants, reading and neural computation
11:15-12:00	Simon X. Yang, Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Lab School of Engineering, University of Guelph Neural Dynamics and Computation for Visual Information Processing in Vertebrate Retina
12:00-1:30	LUNCH BREAK
1:30-2:30	John Guckenheimer, Cornell University Multiple Time Scales in Neural Systems (slides of talk)
2:30-3:00	Carlo R. Laing, University of Ottawa, Stabilization of ``bumps'' by noise
3:00-3:30	AFTERNOON TEA
3:30-4:30	John Milton, The University of Chicago Time delays and noise are intrinsic features of the nervous system.
Sunday December 2 Genomics
9:00-9:30	Leon Glass, McGill University Dynamics in Genetic Networks
9:30 - 10:00	Daniel Kobler, TM Bioscience Combinatorial optimization and genomics: the example of a Toronto company
10:00-10:30	COFFEE BREAK
10:30-11:30	James Yorke, University of Maryland Determining the Sequence (i.e. The ACGT's) of a Genome
11:30-11:50	Len Zaifman, Hospital for Sick Childern, Toronto The Ontario Centre for Genomic Computation: Services and Capacity of Genomic Proportion
11:50-12:30	Mark Henkelmen, The Centre for Applied Genomics, Toronto Imaging for mouse phenotyping- a computational challenge
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