LMS Durham Symposium on 'Grand Biological Challenges for Mathematicians'
(26 May 2012)
Monday 9th July - Tuesday 17th July 2012
The goal of the symposium is to open and consolidate channels of communication between biologists at the forefront of their field, and mathematicians who are either already engaged in various modelling efforts or curious to learn about the challenges faced by biologists at a time when powerful technologies provide a plethora of data and images requiring urgent scientific interpretation.
This symposium will cover a wide range of modelling techniques, including computer science, statistics and biophysics as well, and we expect that the interactions with biologists will inspire the development of new mathematical techniques. We anticipate that it will contribute to bridging the culture gap between biologists and mathematicians/physicists unfamiliar with the handling of complex systems, and will attempt to develop a better sense of which mathematical models are either over-simplified to the point of being useless, or over-complex to the point of being intractable.
Organisers: Kasper Peeters (Durham), Anne Taormina (Durham), Reidun Twarock (York).
LMS Durham Symposium on 'Grand Biological Challenges for Mathematicians'
(26 May 2012)
Monday 9th July - Tuesday 17th July 2012
The goal of the symposium is to open and consolidate channels of communication between biologists at the forefront of their field, and mathematicians who are either already engaged in various modelling efforts or curious to learn about the challenges faced by biologists at a time when powerful technologies provide a plethora of data and images requiring urgent scientific interpretation.
This symposium will cover a wide range of modelling techniques, including computer science, statistics and biophysics as well, and we expect that the interactions with biologists will inspire the development of new mathematical techniques. We anticipate that it will contribute to bridging the culture gap between biologists and mathematicians/physicists unfamiliar with the handling of complex systems, and will attempt to develop a better sense of which mathematical models are either over-simplified to the point of being useless, or over-complex to the point of being intractable.
Organisers: Kasper Peeters (Durham), Anne Taormina (Durham), Reidun Twarock (York).
Contact Details
Department of MathematicsDepartment of Physics
Durham Univeristy
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
