Connectionists: Conference Announcement: Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods: from neuroscience to other biological applications

[Angela M Reynolds]

Nonlinear dynamics and stochastic methods: from neuroscience to other
biological applications

In honor of G. Bard Ermentrout's 60th Birthday

March 10-12, 2014

Pittsburgh, PA



This conference 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. This conference will coincide with a
celebration of G. Bard Ermentrout's sixtieth birthday. 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.


The conference runs from March 10-12, 2014 at the University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA. Travel support may become available for young
investigators. Currently, this conference is partial funded by the
Mathematical Biosciences Institute and the University of Pittsburgh.


Invited Speakers (to be confirmed):

Paul Bressloff (University of Utah)

Carson Chow (National Institutes of Health)

Sharon Crook (Arizona State University)

Jack Cowan (University of Chicago)

Jonathan Drover (Cornell Medical College, NYC)

Leah Edelstein-Keshet (University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Canada)

Roberto Fernandez Galan (Case Western Reserve University)

Pranay Goel (Indian Institute of Science, Education and Research, Pune -
India)

Boris Gutkin (Ecole Normale Superieure/ ENS, Paris - France)

Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Houston)

Nancy Kopell (Boston University)

Cheng Ly (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Remus Osan (Georgia State University)

George Oster (University of California, Berkeley)

John Rinzel (New York University)

Jonathan Rubin (University of Pittsburgh)

Daniel Simons (University of Pittsburgh)

David Terman (Ohio State University)


More information will soon be available via a webpage. If you have
questions now please contact one of the organizers, Angela Reynolds,
areynolds at vcu.edu, or Rodica Curtu, rodica-curtu at uiowa.edu.
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