Mathematical Biology Seminar Series

Winter 2024

Date

Speaker & Title

Time &
Location

Jan 8

Ilhem Bouderbala
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Integrated statistical and network-based frameworks for studying
ecological and biological complex systems

 

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Jan 15

Arwa Baabdulla
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Mathematical Modelling of Reovirus in Cancer Cells

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Jan 22

Christopher Miles
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Irvine

Decoding spatial stochastic RNA dynamics from static imaging data with point process inference

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Jan 29

Hans Othmer
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota

Mathematical and Computational Problems in Cell Motility

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Feb 5

Laurence Ketchemen Tchouaga
Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University

Spatial steady state in fragmented landscapes under monostable and bistable growth dynamics

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Feb 12

Jay Newby
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Extreme first passage times for populations of identical rare events

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Feb 19

Family Day
Reading Week
No seminar today

3pm 457 CAB 

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Feb 26

Hoang Hung Vo
Saigon University

On the principal eigenvalue for nonlocal operators and applications in long time dynamics of some biological models

3pm 457 CAB (virtual) 

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Mar 4

Eric Foxall
Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics
University of British Columbia

Reproductive value, prevalence, and perturbation theory of Perron vectors

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Mar 11

Amit Chakraborty
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

From policy to prediction of infectious diseases: All machine learning models do well; Bayesian networks do better

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Mar 18

Veronica Ciocanel
Departments of Mathematics and Biology (joint)
Duke University

Identifiability for PDE models of fluorescence microscopy experiments

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Mar 25

Shan Gao
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Early detection of disease outbreaks and non-outbreaks using incidence data

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Apr 1

Easter Monday
No seminar today

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April 8

Liubov Sysoeva
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Determining the significance of air quality and meteorological parameters in predicting methane levels

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Apr 15

Sam Isaacson
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University

Spatial Particle Modeling of Immune Processes

 

 3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Fall 2023 Schedule
Monday afternoon, 3:00 pm
Room 457 CAB

Fall 2023

Date

Speaker & Title

Time &
Location

Sept 4

Labour Day

No seminar today

Sept 11

Russell Milne
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Comparing the spread, mortality, and response to vaccination of past and future SARS-CoV-2 variants

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Sept 18

Alexandra Shyntar
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Tumor Growth Paradox, Invasion Paradox, and Allee Effects in Cancer Stem Cell Driven Solid Tumors

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Sept 25

Brian Zambrano Luna
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

P-Adic Cellular Neural Networks and Image Processing

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Oct 2

Keith Tierney
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta

Our chemicals are changing lives

 

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Oct 9

Thanksgiving

No seminar today

 

 

Oct 16

Tianxu Wang
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

Stoichiometric microplastics models in natural and laboratory environments

3pm 457 CAB 

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Oct 23

Maria R. D'Orsogna
Math Department
California State University at Northridge (CSUN)

Mathematical modeling of the neurobiology of drug addiction

3pm 457 CAB (virtual)

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Oct 30

Chunyi Gai
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia

The Nucleation-Annihilation Behavior for Hotspot Patterns of Urban Crime with Police Deployment

 

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Nov 6

Alan Lindsay
Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
University of Notre Dame

Robustness in cellular signaling through extreme statistics: applications to immune signaling and chemotaxis

 

 3pm 457 CAB (virtual)

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Nov 13

Remembrance Day
Reading Week

No seminar today

 

Nov 20

Thomas Hillen
Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
University of Alberta

How the Tulips get their Stripes

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Nov 27

Alexandria Volkening
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University

 Modeling and topological data analysis of zebrafish patterns

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Dec 4

Alan Underhill
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Oncology Dept
University of Alberta

Protein compartmentalization and millions of molecular border collies

3pm 457 CAB (in person)

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Dec 11

Holiday Party

No seminar today