Meeting Support: Modeling Across the Scales - Atoms to Organisms to be held January 5-10, 2002, in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

Investigators

Abstract

Sumners 0125000 The investigator and his colleagues in the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB) organize an international conference on the subject of multiscale phenomena at the interface of the biological and mathematical sciences. This meeting includes a broadly multidisciplinary set of participants, students and researchers active at the interface between mathematics (broadly defined) and biology. This project supports the participation of approximately 15 domestic students and young scientists, selected from a national pool of applicants generated by web and journal advertisements for the meeting. An unusual feature of the meeting is an opening day of tutorials, which prepare the attendees for the lectures, with mathematical scientists introducing basic principles to biologists and biologists giving tutorials for the quantitative scientists. Two sessions focus on issues of importance to students working at the interface between the computational sciences and biology. Students are especially welcome to attend the meeting and present posters on their work. The Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB) conducts research at the interface between molecular biology and the mathematical sciences and trains students and postdocs in this area. An essential part of this effort is a series of conferences on mathematics and molecular biology. The meetings provide a comfortable but challenging environment where students and scientists from each discipline can learn about the other discipline and about multidisciplinary approaches to the solution of important problems in modern biology. This fosters interdisciplinary training, catalyzes new interdisciplinary collaborations, and in an important scientific area helps develop more people with both mathematics and biology expertise. The project supports students and junior scientists.