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Announcing a Workshop on
The Application of Mathematics
to Biomedical Problems
December 17-19, 2007
University of Otago
Dunedin, New Zealand
WORKSHOP GOALS: To bring together applied mathematicians and researchers in
medicine and pharmacology in order to initiate collaborations motivated by
problems of vital concern to the medical field.
WORKSHOP FORMAT: We will focus on several problems supplied by medical researchers
in an attempt to formulate viable mathematical solutions and approaches to these
problems. We hope to create an atmosphere in which ideas can be shared across
disciplinary lines with a common objective: to create and explore new
strategies for attacking the given problems. During the three-day workshop, we
will form collaborative teams that may continue to work together after the
workshop is over. Our long-term goal is to help foster these collaborations and
to facilitate the dissemination of workshop outcomes by encouraging the writing
of grant proposals and by organizing publication of finished results.
REGISTRATION: There is NO registration fee for the workshop. If you are interested in
attending, please contact either Prof.
Ami Radunskaya or Dr.
Sarah Hook. We have applied to the NSF for limited funds to help cover the
travel costs for US participants. We hope to have a diverse group of
participants with respect to field, seniority and point of origin. Students and
junior faculty are encouraged to attend. Please indicate whether or not you
would like to apply for funding. Other potential sources of funding:
AWM travel grants from
the Association for Women in Mathematics
WORKSHOP LOCATION: The workshop is graciously hosted by the School of Pharmacy and the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Dunedin is at the
southern tip of the South Island, and offers many attractions for diversion
after the workshop. Accommodation
in Dunedin for Workshop Participants pdf file
CONVENIENTLY TIMED: The workshop is scheduled to take place immediately following the
first joint meetings of the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Society of
Mathematics, which will take place in Wellington, December 12-15, 2007.
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS WILL BE
ABLE TO ACCESS PROPOSED PROBLEMS AND REFERENCES BEFORE THE WORKSHOP. CONTACT THE ORGANIZERS IF YOU HAVEN”T RECEIVED AN
EMAIL WITH INSTRUCTIONS.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS:
Prof. Ami Radunskaya,
Mathematics Department, Pomona College, USA
Dr. Sarah Hook, School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, NZ
Dr. Alex James, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of
Canterbury, NZ
Prof. Denise Kirschner, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan,
USA
Prof. Urszula Ledzewicz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern
Illinois University, USA
Prof. Thomas Rades, School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, NZ
Prof. Heinz Schaettler, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering,
Washington University, USA
Prof. James Sneyd, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, NZ
Prof. Andrzej Swierniak, Department of Automatic Control, Electronics and
Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Photo: Dunedin Bay, courtesy of Daniel Pulvers