<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px"><p style="margin-bottom:12pt;text-align:center" align="center"><span>Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods: from neuroscience to other biological applications</span></p>
<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">March 10-12, 2014</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span>Pittsburgh, PA</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">
<span> </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span>This <span><span>conference</span></span>
on nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods will bring together a mix
of senior and junior scientists to report on theoretical methods that
proved successful in mathematical neuroscience, and to encourage their
dissemination and application to modeling in computational medicine and
other biological fields. <b>This <span><span>conference</span></span> will coincide with a celebration of G. Bard Ermentrout's sixtieth birthday. </b>The
invited speakers will present on mathematical topics such as dynamical
systems, multi-scale modeling, phase resetting curves, pattern formation
and statistical methods. The mathematical tools will be demonstrated in
the context of the following main topics: i) Rhythms in biological
systems; ii) The geometry of systems with multiple time scales; iii)
Pattern formation in biological systems; iv) Stochastic models:
statistical methods and mean field approximations. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br><span>The <span><span>conference</span></span> runs from <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">March 10-12, 2014</span></span> at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Travel support may become available for young investigators. Currently, this <span><span>conference</span></span> is partial funded by the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and the University of Pittsburgh. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br>REGISTRATION APPLICATION, ABSTRACT SUBMISSION, AND SCHEDULE:</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/%7Ercurtu/conferencePitt2014.htm" target="_blank">http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/~rcurtu/conferencePitt2014.htm</a><br>
</p><h3><font><font><span style="font-weight:normal">Important Dates: Travel award application and </span></font><font><span style="font-weight:normal"><font>abstract submission deadline Passed. <br></font></span></font></font></h3>
<p><font>Registration application deadline January 14th 11:59 pm (EST): </font><br>Researchers interested in attending the conference should submit a <a href="http://homepage.math.uiowa.edu/%7Ercurtu/conferencePitt2014.htm#registration">registration</a>
application. The attendees will be selected among these based on
research interest overlapping with the conference theme, and to ensure
diversity and breadth of participation by individuals and institutions.
</p><p><font>Decisions regarding Registration and Abstracts: January 17th <br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br><font>SPONSORS:<br><br>Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh<br><br>Mathematical Biosciences Institute<br>
<br>National Science Foundation (pending)<br><br> <br>CONTACT: <a href="mailto:rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu" target="_blank">rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu</a> or <a href="mailto:areynolds2@vcu.edu" target="_blank">areynolds2@vcu.edu</a></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br><font><span><b>Confirmed Speakers:</b></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Paul Bressloff (University of Utah)</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Carson Chow (National Institutes of Health)</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Sharon Crook (Arizona State University) </font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Jack Cowan (University of Chicago)</font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Jonathan Drover (Cornell Medical College, NYC)</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font>Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Canada)</font></p><font>Roberto Fernandez Galan (Case Western Reserve University)<br>Pranay Goel (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune - India)<br>
Boris Gutkin (Ecole Normale Superieure/ ENS, Paris - France)<br>Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Houston)<br>Nancy Kopell (Boston University)<br>Cheng Ly (Virginia Commonwealth University)<br>Remus Osan (Georgia State University)<br>
George Oster (University of California, Berkeley)<br>John Rinzel (New York University)<br>Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)<br>Daniel Simons (University of Pittsburgh)<br>David Terman (Ohio State University) </font><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px">
<font><span><br></span></font></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font><span>If you have questions now please contact one of the organizers, Angela Reynolds, <a href="mailto:areynolds@vcu.edu" target="_blank">areynolds2@vcu.edu</a>, or Rodica Curtu, <a href="mailto:rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu" target="_blank">rodica-curtu@uiowa.edu</a>.</span></font></p>
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