Mathematical Sciences: 1988-1990 Symposia on "Some Mathematical Questions in Biology"

本课题是由美国数学学会、工业与应用数学学会和数学生物学学会共同主办的关于“生物学中的一些数学问题”的研讨会。这次研讨会是一系列会议中的第二十二次，将与1988年5月举行的美国实验生物学学会联合会年度会议同时举行。这次年度会议得到了美国国家科学基金会、美国钢铁基金会、美国国立卫生研究院和国防分析研究所的支持。本次研讨会将集中讨论与可兴奋细胞动力学相关的研究问题。这些主题将涉及导致猝发的过渡分析、心脏起搏和心脏组织中的波传播、某些细胞系统聚集阶段的波传播以及大脑中的集体现象。总体目标是让生物学家和生理学家接触到数学家正在进行的一些更具理论性的工作，并让数学家接触到正在对特定系统进行的一些具体建模工作。

This project is a Symposium on "Some Mathematical Questions in Biology" to be sponsored by the American Mathematical Society, the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the Society for Mathematical Biology. The symposium represents the twenty-second in a series and will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in May 1988. The annual meeting is supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Steel Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Institute for Defense Analyses. This symposium will focus on research questions related to the dynamics of excitable cells. The topics will deal with an analysis of the transitions that lead to bursting, cardiac pacemaking and wave propagation in cardiac tissue, wave propagation in the aggregation phase of certain cell systems, and collective phenomena in the brain. The overall goal is to expose biologists and physiologists to some of the more theoretical work being done by mathematicians, and to expose mathematicians to some of the concrete modeling work being done on particular systems.