AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Saturday, April 5, 2008 00:24:35

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2008 Spring Southeastern Meeting
Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1037

Associate secretaries:
Matthew Miller, AMS miller@math.sc.edu

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Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology

• Friday March 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology, I
  Room 201, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Hongyu He, Louisiana State University hongyu@math.lsu.edu
  Sergei S. Pilyugin, University of Florida
  Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Correlation tuning and coding in neuronal networks.
    Kre\v{s}imir Josi\'{c}*, University of Houston
    Eric Shea-Brown, University of Washington
    Brent Doiron, University of Pittsburgh
    Jaime de la Rocha, New York University
    (1037-92-28)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Cross-diffusion induced instability and stability in reaction-diffusion systems.
    Junping Shi, College of William and Mary
    Zhifu Xie*, Virginia State University
    (1037-92-74)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Markov Chain Models of Calcium Release Sites: Kronecker Representations with Exact and Approximate Solution Methods.
    M. Drew LaMar*, The College of William and Mary
    Hilary DeRemigio, The College of William and Mary
    Gregory D. Smith, The College of William and Mary
    Peter Kemper, The College of William and Mary
    (1037-92-335)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    A Selection-Mutation Model: A Formulation on the Space of Measures.
    Azmy Ackleh, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    John Cleveland*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1037-92-208)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Computational Analysis of Variation in Human Meiotic Recombination Hotspots.
    Jie Zheng*, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, NIH
    (1037-92-274)
• Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology, II
  Room 201, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Hongyu He, Louisiana State University hongyu@math.lsu.edu
  Sergei S. Pilyugin, University of Florida
  Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Computer-assisted proofs for the Kot-Schaffer model.
    Sarah Day*, College of William and Mary
    (1037-92-215)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Vector-Borne Diseases and Emergence of Pesticide Resistance.
    Jemal Said Mohammed-Awel*, Valdosta State University
    Kbenesh W Blayneh, Florida A&M University
    (1037-92-37)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    The Minimal molecular surface.
    P.W. Bates, Michigan State University
    G.W. Wei, Michigan State University
    Shan Zhao*, University of Alabama
    (1037-92-12)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Using Genomic Profile Data to Obtain Personalized Estimates of Disease Risk.
    Nathan J Markward*, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
    (1037-92-326)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A tumor regrow model.
    Jianjun Paul Tian*, The College of William and Mary
    (1037-34-169)
• Saturday March 29, 2008, 3:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology, III
  Room 201, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Hongyu He, Louisiana State University hongyu@math.lsu.edu
  Sergei S. Pilyugin, University of Florida
  Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
  

  • 3:00 p.m.
    Mathematical Models for Wound Healing on a Hemi-spherical Calvarium (Skull): The Critical Size Defect.
    John A. Adam*, Old Dominion University
    (1037-92-10)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Global mapping of SNARE-SNARE interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana.
    Naohiro Kato*, Louisiana State University
    Yukichi Fujikawa, Louisiana State University
    (1037-92-320)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Dynamics of discrete-time larch budmoth models.
    Sophia R.-J. Jang*, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    (1037-92-178)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Discussion.
  • 5:00 p.m.
    Bifurcation and asymptotic behavior in classical predator-prey systems.
    Junping Shi*, College of William and Mary
    (1037-35-114)
  • 5:30 p.m.
    Modeling the diffusion coefficient of short DNA sequences.
    Oscar Gonzalez*, University of Texas
    Jun Li, University of Texas
    (1037-76-288)
• Sunday March 30, 2008, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Modeling in Biology, IV
  Room 201, Tureaud Building
  Organizers:
  Hongyu He, Louisiana State University hongyu@math.lsu.edu
  Sergei S. Pilyugin, University of Florida
  Jianjun Tian, College of William and Mary
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Stabilization and Robustness Analysis for a Chemostat with Two Species.
    Frederic Mazenc, Projet MERE INRIA-INRA
    Jerome Harmand, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
    Michael Malisoff*, Louisiana State University
    (1037-92-08)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Transformed Epithelial cells and fibroblasts/myofibroblasts interaction in Breast Tumor: A Mathematical Model and Experiments.
    Yangjin Kim*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Avner Friedman, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University
    Michael Ostrowski, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    Julie Wallace, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    Fu Li, Human Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University
    (1037-00-65)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Discussion.
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Stimulated Unidirectional Propagation in Heterogeneous Excitable Media.
    John Gordon Alford*, Sam Houston State University
    (1037-92-17)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Combinatorics of RNA Secondary Structures.
    Christine E. Heitsch*, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1037-05-276)

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