Special Session
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM Frontier of Mathematical BiologySeptember 23-24, 2004, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, JapanPart 1 September 23, Thu., 09:00 --12:40 "Ecological Dynamics" organizers: Yoh IWASA (Kyushu Univ.) & Nanako SHIGESADA (Nara Women's Univ.） |
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| Ecology is the field in which mathematical studies have the longest tradition among biology. Quantitative studies in general, mathematical and computational modeling and analysis in particular, have been firmly established and become an indispensable part of the Science of Ecology, much more so than any other branches of life sciences. In this symposium session entitled "Ecological Dynamics", Professor Mark Lewis from Canada, Professor Horst Malchow from Germany, and Professor Toshiyuki Namba will talk on recent progresses in mathematical ecology. Finally Professor Nanako Shigesada will review the history of mathematical ecology in Japan and the development of her own research in the last three decades. We will discuss the future direction of mathematical ecology in the twenty first century. |
TENTATIVE
SPEAKERS
AND PROGRAM
| 09:00-09:05 |
Yoh
Iwasa Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan |
Opening |
| 09:05-09:55 (40min. + 10min.) |
Mark
Lewis University of Alberta, Edmonton Alberta, Canada |
Mathematical models for
territories. |
| 09:55-10:30 (30min. + 5min.) |
Toshiyuki
Namba Osaka Women's University, Sakai, Japan |
Structure and stability of model food webs: omnivory, non-linear dynamics and food chain length. |
| break |
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| 10:50-11:40 (40min. + 10min.) |
Horst
Malchow University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany |
Reaction, diffusion and noise in models of plankton patch dynamics. |
| 11:45-12:35 (40min. + 10min.) |
Nanako
Shigesada Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan |
Spatial dynamics: a personal perspective. |
| 12:35-12:40 |
Closing | |