Schedule of Presentations
Mathematical/Statistical Biology Research
Dalhousie University
9:00 Welcome and introductions
9:30 Huaichun Wang
Computational
Molecular Evolution: Modelling Rates and Patterns of Evolution of
Macromolecules and Inferring the Tree of Life
Plants, Shading, Logistic Growth and Diffusion Limited Aggregation: A Link
Alex Georgallas, Greg Bishop, Yousef Papadopoulos and Alan Fredeen
10:00 S. Swaminathan
Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
A
Model for Recognition Processes
10:15 -- 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 Jeff Musgrave
University
of New Brunswick, Fredericton
A biological invasion is the introduction and spread of exotic organisms outside their native range.
11:00 Majid Jaberi Douraki
University
of New Brunswick, Fredericton
Dynamics of
a higher order non-autonomous difference equation
11:15 Sylvia Churcher,
Dalhousie University
Available methods for calculating the biodiversity of microbial samples
Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A
Climate-Based Malaria Transmission Model with Age-structure
Dept
of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University
A
dynamical systems model to predict mercury content in lake fish
12:00 -- 13:30 LUNCH at University Club, Great Hall
13:30 Lisa Kanary
University of New Brunswick
Model of Aquatic Invasive Species Search Effectiveness
Department
of Engineering Mathematics & Internetworking, Dalhousie
University
Sustainability of scallops on
Georges Bank: The role of larval transport
(Chad S. Gilbert, Wendy C. Gentleman, Catherine L. Johnson, Claudio DiBacco, James M. Pringle & C Chen)
Dept.
of Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie University
Functional responses and ecosystem
dynamics: How clearance rates explain the influence of satiation,
food-limitation and acclimation.
Wendy C. Gentleman & Anna B. Neuheimer
Engineering
Mathematics and Internetworking
How to
build and use individual-based models (IBMs) as hypothesis testing
tools.
Anna B. Neuheimer (Dalhousie University), Wendy C. Gentleman (Dalhousie University), P. Pepin (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), E.J.H. Head (Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
14:30 Coffee break
Department
of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
Sized-structured
phytoplankton biomass under mixed-layer modulation: A mathematical
model
15:00 Luju Liu
Department Mathematics and
Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A
Tuberculosis Model with Seasonality
15:15 Julie
Horrocks (Guelph), David Hamilton (Dalhousie), Hal Whitehead
(Dalhousie)
A
likelihood approach to estimating abundance from binary acoustic data
Dalhousie
University
Species Invasion in Complex
Food Web Networks
15:45 Deborah Buszard, David Iron and Brian Pellerin
Dalhousie
University
A Mathematical Model to
Optimize Yearly Fruit Number and Predict Crop Weight in Apple Trees
Organic
agriculture cannot replace conventional agriculture
Sina
Adl1, David Iron2
and Theodore Kolokolnikov2
1Department of
Biology & 2Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
16:15 David Iron
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
The Role of Feedback in the Formation of
Morphogen Territories
16:30 Social in University Club, Pub