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2024 Spring Western Sectional Meeting

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
May 4-5, 2024 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1196

Associate Secretary for the AMS Scientific Program:

Michelle Ann Manes, michelle.manes@gmail.com

Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Ecological and Social Systems

Saturday May 4, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Ecological and Social Systems, I
Room 113, Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel Brendan Cooney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dbcoone2@illinois.edu
Mari Kawakatsu, University of Pennsylvania
Chadi M Saad-Roy, University of California, Berkeley
- 8:00 a.m.
  Break
- 8:30 a.m.
  Evolution under multiple and opposing levels of selection
  Shishi Luo*, Helix
  (1196-60-36061)
- 9:00 a.m.
  Understanding the adaptive properties of shape and structure in biological systems
  Oana Carja*, Carnegie Mellon University
  (1196-92-36208)
- 9:30 a.m.
  Theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding social evolution
  Nicole Creanza*, Vanderbilt University
  (1196-92-36224)
- 10:00 a.m.
  Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting
  Talia Borofsky*, Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  (1196-92-36214)
- 10:30 a.m.
  North and South China: A Mathematical Analysis Incorporating Archaeology, Epidemiology, and Behavioral Evolution
  Marcus Feldman*, Stanford University
  (1196-91-36210)

Saturday May 4, 2024, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Ecological and Social Systems, II
Room 113, Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel Brendan Cooney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dbcoone2@illinois.edu
Mari Kawakatsu, University of Pennsylvania
Chadi M Saad-Roy, University of California, Berkeley
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantifying compositional variability in microbial communities
  Maike L Morrison*, Stanford University
  Noah A Rosenberg, Stanford University
  Katherine S Xue, Stanford University
  (1196-92-36030)
- 3:30 p.m.
  The ecology of microbial communities in serial dilution culture
  Amir Erez, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Jaime Lopez*, Stanford University
  (1196-92-36164)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Joint impacts of spatial and temporal variation in demography and dispersal on population growth
  Sebastian J. Schreiber*, University of California, Davis
  (1196-92-36228)
- 4:30 p.m.
  The many proofs of the reduction phenomenon
  Lee Altenberg, University of Hawaii
  Patrick De Leenheer*, Oregon State University
  Jordan McCaslin, Oregon State University
  (1196-37-36239)

Sunday May 5, 2024, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Ecological and Social Systems, III
Room 113, Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel Brendan Cooney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dbcoone2@illinois.edu
Mari Kawakatsu, University of Pennsylvania
Chadi M Saad-Roy, University of California, Berkeley
- 8:00 a.m.
  A mechanistic model of gossip, reputations, and cooperation
  Mari Kawakatsu*, University of Pennsylvania
  Taylor A. Kessinger, University of Pennsylvania
  Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
  (1196-91-35997)
- 8:30 a.m.
  Adaptive dynamics of cooperation via indirect reciprocity
  Taylor A. Kessinger*, University of Pennsylvania
  Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
  (1196-91-36231)
- 9:00 a.m.
  An "Opinion Reproduction Number" for Infodemics in a Bounded-Confidence Content-Spreading Process on Networks
  Heather Zinn Brooks*, Harvey Mudd College
  Mason A Porter, UCLA
  (1196-91-36227)
- 9:30 a.m.
  How changes in social connectivity affect public discourse: a multi-level Bayesian inference model with community-based social learning
  Valeria Widler*, Zuse Institute Berlin
  (1196-91-36244)
- 10:00 a.m.
  The effect of information and spatial structure on the coevolution of cooperation and social network structure
  Jonah Hubert, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
  Jeremy Van Cleve*, University of Kentucky
  (1196-92-36272)
- 10:30 a.m.
  Navigating uncertainty: the evolution of social behaviors and risk preferences
  Joshua B. Plotkin*, University of Pennsylvania
  Qi Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  Guocheng Wang, University of Pennsylvania & Peking University
  Long Wang, Peking University
  (1196-91-36146)

Sunday May 5, 2024, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Modeling of Complex Ecological and Social Systems, IV
Room 113, Business Building
Organizers:
Daniel Brendan Cooney, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign dbcoone2@illinois.edu
Mari Kawakatsu, University of Pennsylvania
Chadi M Saad-Roy, University of California, Berkeley
- 2:00 p.m.
  How collective foraging in social insects scales with colony size
  Matina Donaldson-Matasci*, Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College
  Valentin Lecheval, Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
  Elva JH Robinson, Department of Biology, University of York
  Zachary Traul, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
  (1196-92-36235)
- 2:30 p.m.
  Exploring Equation Learning in Spatial Models of Population Dynamics
  Veronica Ciocanel, Duke University
  Kevin Flores, North Carolina State University
  John Nardini, The College of New Jersey
  Erica Marie Rutter, University of California, Merced
  Suzanne Sindi*, University of California, Merced
  Alexandria Volkening, Purdue University
  (1196-92-36219)
- 3:00 p.m.
  Evolutionary Dynamics Within and Among Competing Groups
  Daniel Brendan Cooney*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  Simon A Levin, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  Yoichiro Mori, University of Pennsylvania
  Joshua B. Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania
  (1196-92-36060)
- 3:30 p.m.
  A model free method of predicting transient dynamics
  Alan Hastings, Santa Fe Institute
  Chris M. Heggerud*, University of California, Davis
  (1196-92-36109)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Mathematical Methods for the Simulation of Spread of Infectious Disease
  Yashleen Sharma*, San Francisco State University
  (1196-92-36243)
- 4:30 p.m.
  Immune uncertainties, individual behavior, and the dynamics of COVID-19
  Chadi M Saad-Roy*, University of California, Berkeley
  (1196-92-36234)

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