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Subject: SMB Digest v13i04
SMB Digest January 25, 2013 Volume 13 Issue 4
ISSN 1086-6566
Editor: Amina Eladdadi eladdada(at)strose(dot)edu
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Issue's Topics:
ToC: Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 75, Issue 1
Spring School: Montreal Scientific Computing Days, May 13-15, Canada
Workshop: Undergrad. Math/Stat in Biology Education, May 17-18, Radford U.
Workshop: Nottingham Neural Engineering, April 15-26, Nottingham, UK
CfP: BSI2013-Extended Call for Papers-Due on January 26.
Faculty Position: Golovin Assistant Prof. in Applied Math. Northwestern U.
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Dynamics and Management of Stage-Structured Fish Stocks
Xinzhu Meng, Niklas L. P. Lundström, Mats Bodin & Åke Brännström
Modelling the Dynamics of Crystal Meth (?Tik?) Abuse in the Presence of Drug-Supply Chains in South Africa
Farai Nyabadza, John B. H. Njagarah & Robert J. Smith
A Model for Fluid Drainage by the Lymphatic System
Charles Heppell, Giles Richardson & Tiina Roose
The Impact of Hepatitis A Virus Infection on Hepatitis C Virus Infection: A Competitive Exclusion Hypothesis
Marcos Amaku, Francisco Antonio Bezerra Coutinho, Eleazar Chaib & Eduardo Massad
Effect of Periodic Disinfection on Persisters in a One-Dimensional Biofilm Model
N. G. Cogan, Barbara Szomolay & Martin Dindos
Coarse Grained Normal Mode Analysis vs. Refined Gaussian Network Model for Protein Residue-Level Structural Fluctuations
Jun-Koo Park, Robert Jernigan & Zhijun Wu
The Tumor Growth Paradox and Immune System-Mediated Selection for Cancer Stem Cells
Thomas Hillen, Heiko Enderling & Philip Hahnfeldt
A Model for Migratory B Cell Oscillations from Receptor Down-Regulation Induced by External Chemokine Fields
Cliburn Chan, Matthew Billard, Samuel A. Ramirez, Harald Schmidl, Eric Monson & Thomas B. Kepler
Erratum to: Modeling Seasonal Rabies Epidemics in China
Juan Zhang, Zhen Jin, Gui-Quan Sun, Xiang-Dong Sun & Shigui Ruan
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From: Robert G. Owens <owens@DMS.UMontreal.CA>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 4:37 PM
Subject:Spring School/Montreal Scientific Computing Days, May 13-15, Canada
Spring School and 7th Montreal Scientific Computing Days
May 13th-15th, 2013
Centre de Recherches Mathematiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
The objectives of this conference are to encourage scientific exchange
within the scientific computing community in Quebec and further afield
and to train senior undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral
fellows, and other young researchers via three mini-courses given by
international experts. Time slots have also been set aside for short
presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and there
will be a contributed poster session.
Short Courses:
- Xavier Antoine, How to truncate a PDE problem set in an unbounded
domain: the example of the Schrodinger equation
- Michael Griebel, On generalized sparse grids
- Doron Levy, Numerical methods for mathematical models of cancer
dynamics
There is no fee to attend; however, registration is mandatory. A
limited budget has been reserved for travel, lodging and living
expenses of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows coming from
outside Montreal. A short CV and one reference letter is required to
apply for this financial aid. The deadline for abstract submissions
and financial aid requests is April 5th, 2013.
For information on registration, to submit an abstract or apply for
financial aid, please visit http://www.crm.math.ca/Comp13/index_e.shtml
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From: Wojdak, Jeremy <jmwojdak@radford.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Subject: Workshop - Undergraduate Math/Stat in Biology Education
ANNOUNCEMENT: An active workshop focused on undergraduate math/stat
education for biology students.
WHEN: May 17-18, 2013.
WHERE: Selu Conservancy, Radford University, Radford, VA.
GOALS: To produce peer-reviewed instructional products or
useful syntheses of pedagogical approaches. Goals open to
suggestions.
WHAT: Small groups of participants working together, formed around
common themes of interest.
WHO: Mathematics, Statistics, and Biology faculty members,
post-docs, and advanced graduate students interested in
Math/Bio education.
WHY: To meet the challenges of teaching quantitative skills in engaging
ways to biology students.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE: Follow the link below for more information
and an application form. Apply before March 15, but the sooner the
better!
HOW MUCH: Meeting registration, food, and lodging costs are FREE to
those selected to participate. Travel costs to/from Radford University
are the responsibilities of the participants.
http://www.radford.edu/jmwojdak/SUMS4Bio_Conference.html
Contact Joel Hagen (jhagen@radford.edu) or me (jmwojdak@radford.edu)
for more information.
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From: Stephen Coombes <stephen.coombes@nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:23 PM
Subject: Nottingham Neural Engineering Workshop April 15-26
Conference Title: Nottingham Neural Engineering Workshop
Venue: Nottingham, UK
Date: April 15-26 2013
Scientific Organiser: Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham
Neural Engineering is an inherently new discipline that brings
together engineering, physics, neuroscience and mathematics to design
and develop brain-computer interface systems, cognitive computers and
neural prosthetics. This two week workshop, primarily aimed at
younger researchers, will bring together experts in these key areas to
introduce and discuss concepts that underpin current research in
Neural Engineering. This workshop is the first scientific event
supported by NETT. NETT - Neural Engineering Transformative
Technologies - is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network comprising of
18 European universities, research institutes and private companies
who together will host 17 PhD students and 3 postdoctoral researchers
over the next 4 years [www.neural-engineering.eu].
The meeting will consist of invited speakers and existing members of
NETT. There is space to accommodate a further 30 participants and the
schedule will allow for a number of poster presentations.
The deadline for application to attend by non NETT members is March 1 2013.
The registration fee for non NETT members is 100.00 GBP. Further details
and the online registration procedure can be found at
http://www.neural-engineering.eu/induction2013/
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From: tulip li <lab@tulip.org.au>
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Subject: Extended Call for Papers (Now Due on January 26, 2013)
Selected quality papers from the workshop will be recommended for
publication in World Wide Web Journal
The 2013 International Workshop on Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI2013)
URL: bsi2013.behaviorinformatics.org
Submission System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsi2013
Selected quality papers from the workshop will be recommended for
publication in World Wide Web Journal (SCI-Indexed) and other top
international journals after substantial extension (to be confirmed).
Held in conjunction with
The 2013 Pacific-Asia Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge
Discovery (PAKDD2013)
URL: http://pakdd2013.pakdd.org/
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: January 26,2013
Author Notification: February 12, 2013
Camera-Ready Deadline: February 28, 2013
Workshop Scope:
Behavior and Social Informatics (BSI) -BSI?2013 aims to increase
potential collaborations and partnerships by bringing together
academic researchers and industry practitioners from data mining,
statistics and analytics, business and marketing, finance and
politics, and behavioral, social and psychological sciences with the
objectives to present updated research efforts and progresses on
foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BSI, exchange
new ideas and identify future research directions.
Behavior and social science are increasingly recognized as a key
component in business intelligence and problem-solving. Behavior and
Social Informatics (BSI) has been emerged as a new scientific field
that studies effective methodologies, techniques and technical tools
for representing, modeling, analyzing, understanding and managing
human behaviors and social characteristics. Unlike traditional
behavior and social science, which mainly focuses on qualitative and
explicit behavior and social appearance and drivers, BSI intends to
support explicit behavioral and societal involvement through a
conversion from transactional entity spaces to behavior/social feature
spaces, through a better understanding of interactions between users
and computing systems and better modeling of social concepts like
trust, credibility, privacy, and, and influence, further genuine
analysis of native behavior/social patterns and impacts, and the
facilitation of deployment of information technologies in various
socially-centric application domains.
Paper Submissions:
Submitted papers will have a peer review by the Program Committee on
the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics,
originality, significance, and clarity.
The proceedings in Springers LNAI series will be post conference, and
it will be published in the second half of 2013.
All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format only,
through the following paper submission system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bsi2013
Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is
accepted, at least one author should attend the workshop to present
the paper.
Organization Committee:
General Chair
Philip S Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Program Co-Chairs:
Longbing Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan
Irwin King, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Organizing Chair:
Gang Li, Deakin University, Australia
Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Supported by: IEEE Task Force on Behavior and Social Informatics
(http://www.behaviorinformatics.org/)
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From: Michael J Miksis <miksis@northwestern.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Subject: Golovin Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
The Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics at
Northwestern University invites applications for the position of
Golovin Assistant Professor. This is a one-year, non-tenure-track
position with the possibility of renewal for a second year. Duties
involve teaching and research in applied mathematics with a focus on
applications in engineering and/or the sciences. More information
about this position can be found at:
http://www.esam.northwestern.edu/job-openings/index.html.
The starting date is September 1, 2013. Outstanding candidates at all
levels are encouraged to apply, but preference will be given to junior
level candidates. The application package should include a curriculum
vita, a statement of research accomplishments and interests, and a
statement of teaching experience and philosophy. The application
should be submitted on-line at
http://facultysearch.mccormick.northwestern.edu/apply/index/NTM.
In addition, the applicant should arrange for at least two, but no
more than three letters of recommendation. Recommendation letters will
be automatically solicited from the letter writers by email after the
names are entered in the online application system.
Questions may be sent to Sarah Johnson, esam@northwestern.edu (Subject
line: Golovin Professorship). To ensure full consideration,
applications should be received by March 1, 2013, but applications
will be accepted until the position is filled.
Northwestern University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity
Employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is
contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.
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