International Conference on Mathematics in Biology and
Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology

The meeting will consist of plenary talks, minisymposia, contributed talks, poster sessions and a lunch talk. We intend to have a `careers information' lunch for students, and an education section. There will also be several field trips timed around the meeting. Student travel awards will be available.

PLENARY SPEAKERS: Sally Blower, George Oster, Tamar Schlick

MINISYMPOSIUM SUBJECTS AND ORGANIZERS:

BIOFLUIDS:	Lisa Fauci
CANCER:	Mark Chaplain and Andrej Yakovlev
DISEASE:	Denise Kirschener
IMMUNOLOGY:	Lee Segel
MOLECULAR MOTORS:	Alex Mogilner
THEORETICAL ECOLOGY:	Alan Hastings

An Education in Mathematical Biology session will be organized by John Jungck and the Careers Lunch will be organized by Lou Gross. Gerda DeVries is organizing a Mentoring Program to foster interactions between junior and senior researchers.

We encourage applications to give contributed talks and posters. The FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS will be JANUARY 15, 2000 with online information available then.

We will have field trips to see wildflowers in Albion Basin (8000 feet up in the Wastach Mountains) and to the nearby pristine Red Butte Canyon.

Conferees will be housed in the new University of Utah Guest House, which is within walking distance of the central Conference location.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: Mark Chaplain (Dundee), Lisa Fauci (Tulane), Lou Gross (Tennessee), Alan Hastings (Davis), Alex Mogilner (Davis), Alan Perelson (Los Almos), David Rand (Warwick) and James Sneyd (Michigan)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Mark Lewis, Fred Adler, David Eyre, Aaron Fogelson, Jim Keener and Hans Othmer.

Online abstract submission, registration, accomodation, field trip information, student travel information and general information will be available JANUARY 15, 2000 at http://conferences.utah.edu.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Mail:
SMB 2000
University of Utah Conferences
Room 2174
1901 E South Campus Drive
SLC UT 84112-9359 USA
Web: http://conferences.utah.edu
Email: confer@admin.dce.utah.edu
Tel: (801) 581-5809
Fax: (801) 581-3165