---------------------------------------------------- Subject: SMB Digest v08i24 SMB Digest June 19, 2008 Volume 08 Issue 24 ISSN 1086-6566 Editor: Ray Mejía ray(at)smb(dot)org Note: Information about the Society for Mathematical Biology, including an application for membership, may be found in the SMB Home Page, http://www.smb.org/ . Access the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, the official journal of SMB, at http://www.springer.com/11538 . Inquiries about membership or BMB fulfillment should be sent to membership(at)smb(dot)org . Issue's Topics: Workshop Announcement: OptAIDS, July 29, Toronto Workshop & Summer School: Plant Biology, Louvain-la-Neuve Symposium Announcement: Guelph BioM&S, September 3, U Guelph Special Issue on Image Processing: Int. J. of Tomography & Statistics SMB 2008: Room sharing TOC: Journal of Biological Dynamics, Volume 2 Issue 2 M.Sc. and Ph.D. Studentships: Mathematical Biology/Chemistry Post-doctoral Programme: Systems Biology, CNRS-MPG Postdoc Position: Spatial Population Dynamics, Umeå Postdoctoral Position: Spatial Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics, Guelph SMBnet Reminders ---------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Smith? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:05:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Workshop Announcement: OptAIDS, July 29, Toronto Workshop announcement: "OPTAIDS: Can We Optimally Spend Our Way Out of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic? World AIDS as an Optimal Halting Problem" Toronto, July 29, 2008 (one day before the Society for Mathematical Biology meeting) and also virtually, in Second Life. Registration details at: http://www.mitacs.ca/conferences/OptAIDS/ We face a unique, transitory opportunity in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, because we have collectively pooled money faster than the epidemic has grown. Can we then seize the moment and halt this epidemic now? Most scenarios for the future of HIV/AIDS project modest reductions spread out over decades. The very timescale of such projections, beyond the persistence time of all models, makes them unreliable. Can we do better, quicker? We raise two questions: 1. Can we optimally spend our way out of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? 2. Can we work together to build a World Halting AIDS Model (WHAM) that would permit us to estimate the quickest way to halt HIV/AIDS, monitor our success, and adjust our strategy as we go? The OptAIDS Workshop has four components: -A one day meeting in Toronto on July 29, 2008 in the Giovani Room, 89 Chestnut, University of Toronto. (9:00am-5:00pm) -A minisymposium at the Society of Mathematical Biology meeting in Toronto on July 30, 2008. http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/CMM/08-09/SMB/minisymposia/smith.html -An ongoing meeting in the virtual world, Second Life®, starting now. -A special issue of the journal BMC Public Health. ---------------------------------------------------- From: Roeland Merks Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:04 +0200 Subject: Workshop & Summer School: Plant Biology, Louvain-la-Neuve Workshop: When modelers meet biologists: a series of case studies illustrating why modeling should become instrumental in plant biology. Not a "How to?" but a "What for?" The Belgian Plant Science Doctoral School organizes a workshop on plant modeling, September 8 and 9, 2008, in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, http://www.eddsaib.org/plant_science. This workshop is a partner event to the summer school "Computational and Mathematical Modeling for Plant Systems Biology", September 1-5, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology and Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium. See http://www.psb.ugent.be/plantmodels. The Ghent summer school will give both a scientific and practical introduction to modelling in plant sciences, going from the molecular level up to the level of the whole plant. The follow-up workshop in Louvain-la-Neuve shows participants what modelling has to offer to the plant sciences, without giving a practical introduction. It focuses on whole plant models and physiological and tissue-level models. ---------------------------------------------------- From: Allan Willms Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:06:43 -0400 Subject: Symposium Announcement: Guelph BioM&S, September 3, U Guelph GUELPH BioM&S SYMPOSIUM 2008 You are invited to participate in the 5th Annual Guelph Biomathematics and Biostatistics (BioM&S) Symposium to take place Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at the University of Guelph. The principal objective of the symposium is to facilitate collaborations between mathematicians, statisticians and bioscience researchers. The theme of this year's symposium is "Nonlinear Methods for Parameter Estimation." We are pleased to announce that Professor James Hanley, from the Department of Epidemiology at McGill, will deliver this year's Gordon C. Ashton Biometric Lecture at the symposium. There is NO COST to attend this event, however, you must register. The Fields Institute is administering registration online at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/08-09/bioms/index.html Graduate students are encouraged to give 20-minute oral presentations and both graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to give poster presentations. Abstracts for oral and poster presentations can be submitted online. Graduate students may also apply at the above web site for travel funding before August 1. We look forward to your participation. ---------------------------------------------------- From: João Manuel R. S. Tavares Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:08:05 +0100 Subject: Special Issue on Image Processing: Int. J. of Tomography & Statistics Special issue on Image Processing Guest Editors: João Manuel R. S. Tavares & Renato M. Natal Jorge, UP, Portugal International Journal of Tomography & Statistics ISSN 0973-7294 (Online) - 0972-9976 (Print) http://www.isder.ceser.res.in/ijts.html Dear Colleague, This special issue of the International Journal of Tomography & Statistics (IJT&S) is devoted to promote a broad exchange of information on technologies, applications, operations and quality assurance in the areas of Computed Tomography, Statistics as well as of Image Processing. This special issue on Image Processing is an opportunity for users, scientists, image equipment suppliers and all who are interested to present their works on image detectors and acquisition systems, signal processing, image processing and analysis, medical imaging, pattern analysis and recognition, volume scanning and reconstruction, features extraction and classification, telemedicine, virtual and augmented reality, enhanced computation and software applications of image processing. Thus, if you are working on the related areas of the special issue, Image Processing, it is an honour to invite you to submit your work to be published in the IJT&S. Important Dates and Instructions: Deadline for papers submission: 30/06/2008; Authors notification: 15/09/2008; Final version of accepted papers: 1/11/2008; If you intend to submit your work please notify as soon as possible the guest editors of your intention (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt). Papers for the special issue should be sent to the guest editors (tavares@fe.up.pt, rnatal@fe.up.pt). Instructions for authors are available at: http://www.isder.ceser.res.in/ijts/instr4a.html. ---------------------------------------------------- From: joshi@xavier.edu Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:02:00 -0400 Subject: SMB 2008: Room sharing I booked a double room (with a hope to save money) at 89 Chestnut from Tuesday (July 29) to Saturday (August 2nd). If you or anyone you know is interested sharing a room with a nonsmoking male please kindly let me know. With best regards, Hem Joshi joshi@xavier.edu ---------------------------------------------------- From: "Sternberg, Zoe" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:45:26 +0100 Subject: TOC: Journal of Biological Dynamics, Volume 2 Issue 2 Journal of Biological Dynamics: Volume 2 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworldTM. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g793186652~tab=toc Special Issue: On the Occasion of the 60th Birthday of Hal L. Smith This new issue contains the following articles: Tribute to Hal Smith - FREELY AVAILABLE Pages 87 - 88 Author: Paul Waltman Dynamics of a plant-herbivore model Pages 89 - 101 Authors: Yun Kang; Dieter Armbruster; Yang Kuang Immune response to a malaria infection: properties of a mathematical model Pages 102 - 120 Authors: Patrick De Leenheer; Sergei S. Pilyugin Monotone bifurcation graphs Pages 121 - 139 Authors: G. A. Enciso; E. D. Sontag Dynamics of a delay differential equation model of hepatitis B virus infection Pages 140 - 153 Authors: Stephen A. Gourley; Yang Kuang; John D. Nagy Global dynamics of a staged-progression model with amelioration for infectious diseases Pages 154 - 168 Authors: Hongbin Guo; Michael Y. Li On existence and uniqueness of the carrying simplex for competitive dynamical systems Pages 169 - 179 Author: Morris W. Hirsch Robust permanence and impermanence for stochastic replicator dynamics Pages 180 - 195 Authors: Michel Benaïm; Josef Hofbauer; William H. Sandholm Bistable waves for a class of cooperative reaction-diffusion systems Pages 196 - 207 Authors: Yu Jin; Xiao-Qiang Zhao Competition in a turbidostat for an inhibitory nutrient Pages 208 - 220 Author: Bingtuan Li An epidemic model with post-contact prophylaxis of distributed length I. Thresholds for disease persistence and extinction Pages 221 - 239 Authors: Horst R. Thieme; Abdessamad Tridane; Yang Kuang ---------------------------------------------------- From: Marc Roussel Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:04:06 -0600 Subject: M.Sc. and Ph.D. Studentships: Mathematical Biology/Chemistry Are you interested in applying mathematics to chemical or biological problems, or perhaps in developing new mathematical ideas for these fields? If so, why don't you contact me so that we can discuss the opportunities in my research group? We carry out fundamental research on model reduction and stochastic kinetics, as well as a variety of applied projects in theoretical biology. If you're interested in the interface between theory and experiment and have an appropriate background, it may also be possible to arrange research projects for you which involve some experimental work with other research groups. If you're interested, have a look at my web page (http://people.uleth.ca/~roussel), or contact me at the coordinates below. Marc R. Roussel, Professor home page: people.uleth.ca/~roussel Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry email: roussel@uleth.ca University of Lethbridge phone: +1 403 329 2326 Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4 fax: +1 403 329 2057 ---------------------------------------------------- From: " François Képès" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:41:04 +0200 Subject: Post-doctoral Programme: Systems Biology, CNRS-MPG CNRS-MPG POST-DOCTORAL PROGRAMME FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY  The CNRS-MPG Post-Doctoral Programme for Systems Biology was founded by the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, with the common goal to increase cooperation in this new field of investigation and to encourage the mobility of young scientists engaged in the pursuit of excellence. MPG and CNRS invite applications from outstanding young scientists who are engaged or wish to engage in research in Systems Biology. Successful applicants will have demonstrated their ability to perform excellent research. They will be expected to run their personal research project, thus laying the foundations for a successful career in science. They will be offered a high-quality post-doctoral position with an initial 2-year contract and a possible 1-year extension. In addition they will receive 20k EUR p.a. for material resources and travel expenses. Applications should include a CV, a list of publications, copies of two publications, two letters of reference, a one-page summary of scientific achievements, a two-page research plan, and their choice of two host institutions. One of these institutions should be chosen from the MPG list, and the other from the CNRS list. One of these two institutions should be marked as "main host facility". Scientists of any nationality are welcome to apply, although German applicants are expected to designate a French main host, and vice-versa. http://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/CNRS_MPG The deadline for application is 10 July 2008. Suitable candidates are invited to apply to both, the MPG Division for International Relations, and the CNRS Office of European Affairs. ---------------------------------------------------- From: Göran Englund Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:52:04 +0200 Subject: Postdoc Position: Spatial Population Dynamics, Umeå Post doc position in spatial population dynamics, Umeå University, Sweden Ref no 315-2175-08 A post-doc position (2 years) in the project "Spatial heterogeneity, functional responses and predator-prey dynamics" is available. It is widely believed that spatial heterogeneity stabilizes predator-prey interactions, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. This project focuses on a previously overlooked aspect: the dynamics of the covariance between predator and prey densities. The project involves cooperation with an international group of researchers that contribute with extensive data sets on predator-prey systems. The data involve a diverse set of organisms, including insects, mites, crustaceans, polychaets and mammals. Many of the systems show cycles and complex spatial patterns, e.g., "hide and seek" dynamics. The project is demanding but will likely yield publications in high ranked journals. A paper that provides a background is found in Am. Nat. 167:246-259. For more information about the project, go to http://www.emg.umu.se/, or contact Professor Göran Englund, at goran.englund@emg.umu.se. To qualify for the position you should have a PhD degree or equivalent. The application can be submitted either electronically or in hard-copy form. Applicants should submit a CV, copies of degree certificates, a statement of previous research achievements and teaching merits, a publication list and reprints/copies of published work numbered according to this list, a research plan (maximum 4 pages) and a list of referees, all in two copies if the application is in hard copy form. The complete application, marked with reference number, should be sent to jobb@umu.se or to the Registrar, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden to arrive August 15, 2008 at the latest. ---------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Bauch Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:07:50 -0400 Subject: Postdoctoral Position: Spatial Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics, Guelph Postdoctoral Position in Spatial Modeling of Vegetation Dynamics Global Ecological Change Laboratory Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph Posted: June 17, 2008 Applications are invited for a 1-year PDF position (with possibility of renewal) in spatial modeling of vegetation dynamics. The candidate should have experience in computer programming (any platform) of spatial simulation models (any area of application) and an interest in vegetation ecology. The candidate will work with research group of Dr. Madhur Anand, Canada Research Chair in Global Ecological Change, and with one of several vegetation ecosystems under study by the group through collaborations (e.g., in Canada, Brazil, China). Possible research questions include but are not limited to: What maintains biodiversity? What is the effect of species invasions? What are the implications of climate change? What is the role of spatial structure? What is the best way to restore a forest? Applications will be considered immediately. Please send a CV with statement of suitability for the position and names of 2 potential referees to: Dr. Madhur Anand (manand@uoguelph.ca). ---------------------------------------------------- Subject: SMBnet Reminders To subscribe to the SMB Digest please point your browser at http://list.auckland.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/math-smbnet and complete the subscription information. 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