Symposium on Mathematical Biology 2004
The 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology

September 22-25, 2004, Hiroshima University



Organized Session


September 24, Fri., 14:00 --17:00

"Introduction to Complex Networks"

   
organizers: Nakamaru, Mayuko(1), Morita, Satoru(1), Sato, Kazunori(1), Tokita, Kei(2), and Takeuchi, Yasuhiro(1)
(1)Shizuoka University, (2)Osaka University



Network theory, which was developed by Erdos and Renyi, is one of attractive fields for not only mathematicians but also physicists and sociologists.  The lattice model, one of the networks, has been applied to the dynamics of ecology successfully.  Since "small world network" (by Watts et al.) and "scale-free network"(by Barabasi et al.) were published in the world-leading international journals 5,6 years ago, these networks have been applied to various fields from the air routes to social networks of researchers and executives.  Current computer technologies, which have abilities to calculate and analyze a large amount of data, has greatly contributed to these studies.
     The application of networks to biology seems just to have begun. There are many biology fields to take the networks into account. Take for instance, studies of genetic networks would solve mysteries of lives. The investigation of network structure of a disease infection route would contribute to the policy making of public health.  Not only the inter-species networks in the food web but also the intra-species network structure would shed light on ecology.
     We hope our organized session would help your future works on networks.

SPEAKERS AND PROGRAM

14:00-14:10
Sato, Kazunori
Shizuoka Univ.
Introduction to introduction.
14:10-14:50
Hayashi, Yukio
JAIST
Scale-free network models for epidemic dynamics.
14:50-14:55
break
14:55-15:15
Nakamaru, Mayuko
Shizuoka Univ.
The social norms on the complex networks.
15:15-15:45
Tokita, Kei
Osaka Univ.
Diversity dynamics in complex ecological networks.
15:45-15:50
break
15:50-16:10
Morita, Satoru
Shizuoka Univ.
Geometrical structure of the neuronal network of Caenorhabditis elegans.
16:10-16:50
Sasai, Masaki
Nagoya Univ.
Stochastic dynamics of genetic network.
16:50-17:00
Questions and Discussion


CONTACT TO:
Nakamaru, Mayuko
Department of systems engineering,
Shizuoka University
Johoku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
432-8561, Japan
tel &fax; +81 -53-478-1257
e-mail; nakamaru-at-sys.eng.shizuoka.ac.jp
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Updated on July 13, 2004

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