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Workshop 7 Schedule
All talks will take place in the MBI Lecture Hall (Math Building Room 240) unless noted otherwise.

Monday, June 26

8:45-9:00am	Welcome to the MBI and the Workshop: Avner Friedman
9:00-9:45am	Introduction: John Pastor "Mathematical Challenges of Global Change"
9:45-10:30am	John Harte "Biotic Feedbacks to Global Climate Change "
10:30-11:00am	Coffee break
11:00-11:45pm	Rob Armstrong "Carbon Fluxes in the Ocean: From Productivity at the Surface to Fluxes in the Deep Layers"
11:45-2:00pm	Lunch break
2:00-5:00pm	Reconvene to organize and break out for afternoon discussions: -Discussion 1: Outlining a Curriculum for Training Students in the Mathematics Required for Global Ecology -Other discussions to be decided at workshop.
5:00-7:00pm	Reception held in Math Tower, Room 724

Tuesday, June 27

9:00-9:45am	Raymond Pierrehumbert "Snowball Earth and a Warm Earth"
9:45-10:30am	Bruce Peckham "Bifurcations, Alternative States, and Nutrient Fluxes in Peatlands"
10:30-11:00am	Coffee break
11:00-11:45am	Barbara Bailey "Noise and Ecosystem Dynamics"
11:45-1:30pm	Lunch break
1:30-5:00pm	Reconvene for afternoon sessions: -Further discussion of Curriculum for Global Change -Tutorial session: Yosef Cohen "Modeling Evolutionary Processes and Global Change"
5:00-6:00pm	Social hour
7:00pm	Public Lecture Series: John Harte "Global warming: Why the skeptics are wrong" Location: Fawcett Center Auditorium, 2400 Olentangy River Road

Wednesday, June 28

9:00-9:45am	Robert Sterner "Stoichiometry at Global Scales"
9:45-10:30am	Chris Klausmeier "The Origin and Stability of Redfield Ratios"
10:30-11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00-11:45am	Irakli Loladze "Stoichiometry of wild plants and crops in the high CO2 world"
11:45-1:30pm	Lunch break
1:30-5:00pm	Reconvene for afternoon sessions: -Discussion groups -Tutorial session: John Nagy and Yang Kuang "Modeling the Effects of Climate Change on Predator-Prey Cycles and Population Dynamics"
5:00-6:00pm	Social hour

Thursday, June 29

9:00-9:45am	David Schimel "Time and Space Scale Issues in Global Carbon Cycles"
9:45-10:15am	Coffee break
10:15-11:00am	Gabriel Katul "Scaling and the Analysis of Long Time Series"
11:00-12:00pm	Discussions
12:00-1:30pm	Lunch break
1:30-5:00pm	Discussion sessions continue
5:00-6:00pm	Social hour
6:00-9:00pm	Banquet at the Holiday Inn on the Lane

Friday, June 30

9:00-12:00am	Discussions: -Reports from discussion groups -Possible papers summarizing workshop: authors, venue, etc.
12:00pm	Departures

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