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Workshop 1: New Questions in Probability Theory Arising in Biological Systems: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, September 12
9:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
9:30am Breakfast
9:45am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
10:00-11:30am Nick Barton: Pedigrees, genealogies and genomes
11:30-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-3:00pm John White: Noise in the Nervous System
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-5:00pm Johan Paulsson
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, September 13
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45am Breakfast
9:00-10:30am Johan Paulsson
10:30-11:00am Break
11:00-12:30pm John White: Noise in the Nervous System
12:30-2:00pm Lunch break
2:00-3:30pm Nick Barton: Pedigrees, genealogies and genomes
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Discussion
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
7:15pm Bus leaves from Crowne Plaza to Reception at Peter March's house.
10:00pm Bus leaves from Peter's house to return to Crowne Plaza
Wednesday, September 14
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Rick Durrett: Cancer causes stable laws
10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-11:30am Alison Etheridge: A model for evolution in a spatial continuum
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Paul Joyce: A simple mutational model that produces diminishing returns epistasis and decelerating fitness trajectories in adaptive walks
2:10-3:10pm Ruth Williams: Stationary Distributions for Stochastic Delay Differential Equations with Positivity Constraints
3:10-3:40pm Break
3:40-4:40pm Anton Wakolbinger: Muller's ratchet with compensatory mutations
5:00-7:00pm Reception and Poster Session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, September 15
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15am Breakfast
8:30-9:30am Steve Evans: Metagenomics and metrics on spaces of probability measures
9:40-10:40am Sylvie Meleard: Random modeling of adaptive dynamics for sexual populations
10:40-11:30am Break
11:30-12:30pm Lorenzo Zambotti: How to maximize neural complexity
12:30-2:30pm Lunch break
2:30-3:30pm Jasmine Foo: Cancer recurrence and escape dynamics
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Jason Schweinsberg: Dynamics of the evolving Bolthausen-Sznitman coalescent
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, September 16
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15am Breakfast
8:30-9:30am Priscilla Greenwood: Stochastic Dynamics of some Neuron Models
9:40-10:40am Steve Krone: Antibiotic resistance plasmids and spatial structure
10:40-11:00am Break
11:00-12:00pm Tom Kurtz: Identifying separated time scales in stochastic models of reaction networks
12:15pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)