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Centre for Nonlinear Systems in Biology
University of Dundee
Scotland
20 - 24 September 1998
An international meeting supported by the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.
The meeting will mark the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and the topics under discussion at the meeting will be pattern formation in developmental biology, pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems, pattern formation in intercellular systems, pattern and form in morphometrics.
Local Organizing Committee:
MAJ Chaplain, J Crawford, P Smith, C Weijer, S Hubbard, R Herbert, GD Singh, P Slater (St. Andrews), J McLachlan (St Andrews)
Scientific Advisory Committee:
JD Murray, L Wolpert, B Goodwin
The following plenary speakers will give talks:
J. Slack (Bath), P. Maini (Oxford), C. Tickle (University College London), J. Sherratt (Heriot-Watt), A. Hunding (Copenhagen), V. French (Edinburgh), B. Nagorcka (CSIRO Canberra), H. Meinhardt (Tuebingen), W. Alt (Bonn), C. Weijer (Dundee), J. McLachlan (St. Andrews), A. Schor (Dundee), P. O'Higgins (UCL), K. Mardia (Leeds) S. Lozanoff (Hawaii), S. Lele (Johns Hopkins), J-C Auffray (Montpelier), B. Goodwin (Open University)
The conference will begin on Sunday 20th September, finishing on Thursday 24th September. The meeting will evolve by focussing in turn on each of the following topics:
The daily programme will consist of plenary talks, workshop sessions, poster presentations and discussion sessions. Each day will focus on one of the topics listed above and the invited talks will be of 45 minutes in length, with an additional 15 minutes allocated for a short question/discussion period. It is anticipated that there will be three plenary talks, of one hour duration, during each morning session punctuated appropriately with a coffee break. After lunch there will be one further plenary talk. The final plenary talk will immediately be followed by a workshop session which will take the format of a poster presentation session open to all other participants. We would expect and strongly encourage a significant number to be graduate students and young post-doctoral researchers. A limited amount of support from the Society of Mathematical Biology to assist participation by graduate students is available. Full details of this scheme will be given in the Spring Issue of the Newsletter.
There will also be a permanent display of specimens from the University's D'Arcy Thompson Museum throughout meeting.
The current programme schedule is as follows:
Saturday 19th September: Arrival and Registration Sunday 20th September: On the Growth of Form 08:45 - 09:00 Welcome 09:00 - 10:00 J. Slack 10:00 - 11:00 C. Tickle 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 V. French 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Poster session and workshops 15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon tea 16:00 - 17:00 A. Hunding 17:00 - 18:00 Discussion and small-group sessions Monday 21st September: On the Mathematics of Form 09:00 - 10:00 B. Nagorcka 10:00 - 11:00 H. Meinhardt 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 P. Maini 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Poster session and workshops 15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon tea 16:00 - 17:00 J. Sherratt 17:00 - 18:00 Discussion and small-group sessions Tuesday 22nd September: On the Dynamics of Form 09:00 - 10:00 C. Weijer 10:00 - 11:00 A. Schor 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 J. McLachlan 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - Excursions Wednesday 23rd September: On the Description of Form 09:00 - 10:00 W. Alt 10:00 - 11:00 K. Mardia 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 J-C Auffray 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Poster session and workshops 15:30 - 16:00 Afternoon tea 16:00 - 17:00 S. Lele 17:00 - 18:00 Discussion and small-group sessions Thursday 24th September: On the Form of Form 09:00 - 10:00 S. Lozanoff 10:00 - 11:00 P. O'Higgins 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:30 B. Goodwin 12:30 - 13:00 Concluding remarks and close of meeting 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
The cost of the conference will be 40 pounds per day which is inclusive of standard single room accommodation, breakfast, mid-morning refreshments, lunch, afternoon refreshments, dinner and bedroom beverage pack (En-suite rooms, double rooms and twin rooms will also be available). There will be a registration fee of 75 pounds per person (40 pounds for a student) to cover the cost of room hire, a book of abstracts and audio-visual equipment hire.
The Tuesday afternoon will be devoted to excursions with trips planned to visit:
Glamis Castle (the setting for Shakespeare's play "Macbeth")
RRS Discovery (the sailing ship of Captain R.E. Scott who sailed to the South Pole)
The Blair Athol Whisky Distillery in Pitlochry, located in the southern Highlands.
There will be a conference dinner on the Wednesday evening with the after dinner speach to be given by Professor Peter Slater, Department of Biology, St. Andrews University. Professor Slater is the current holder of the chair which D'Arcy Thompson held.
A first call for poster abstracts will be made in early spring 1998 and in the Spring Issue of the SMB Newsletter. Full details including registration forms, full details of costs, full programme, abstracts, travel details will be available from the conference web-site (which has recently been up-dated) at URL:
http://www.mcs.dundee.ac.uk:8080/~darcy98
or from a link at URL:
http://www.mcs.dundee.ac.uk:8080/
Registration by e-mail or from the conference web-site is preferred. However, registration forms will also be available from Dr. M. Chaplain at the address below.
Any queries or requests should be directed either to the conference e-mail address:
darcy98@mcs.dundee.ac.uk
or to
Dr. M.A.J. Chaplain
Department of Mathematics
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
Scotland
tel: +44 (0)1382 345369
FAX: +44 (0)1382 345516
e-mail: chaplain@mcs.dundee.ac.uk http://www.mcs.dundee.ac.uk:8080/~chaplain
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