Mathematical Sciences: Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics - May 23-27, 1995

研究者和他的同事们组织了一个关于异质生物种群数学建模的会议。主题涉及基因群体（包括基因组进化的动力学），细胞和肿瘤群体，以及癌症的自然史，以及从流行病学中选择的主题，如艾滋病。这些生物学主题与分支过程、随机模型、随机漫步、空间过程、结构种群、算子半群和动力系统等数学主题相结合。这一主题的选择是由人口数学理论的最新进展以及从分子和细胞生物学以及生物医学科学的各个分支获得的新数据所驱动的。会议的目的是提供一个跨学科的国际论坛，让研究现实生活数据的生物学家和开发和分析模型方程的数学家之间交流观点和经验。他们做出了特别的努力，以促进通常不同的理论家和实验家群体之间的相互理解，以及知名科学家和年轻同事之间的相互理解。会议促进了西方数学家和数量生物学家与东欧和苏联同行在相关领域的交流。

Kimmel The investigator and his colleagues organize a conference on the mathematical modeling of heterogeneous biological populations. The topics concern populations of genes (including dynamics of genome evolution), populations of cells and tumors, as well as the natural history of cancer, and selected topics from epidemiology such as AIDS. These biological topics are integrated with the mathematical topics of branching processes, stochastic models, random walks, spacial processes, structured populations, semigroups of operators, and dynamical systems. This selection of subjects is motivated by recent advances in the mathematical theory of populations and in new data available from various branches of molecular and cellular biology, and biomedical sciences. The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary international forum for an exchange of views and experiences between biologists working on real life data and mathematicians developing and analyzing model equations. Special efforts are made to facilitate a mutual understanding between the usually disparate groups of theoreticians and experimentalists, and between established scientists and younger colleagues. The conference fosters exchanges between mathematicians and quantitative biologists in the relevant fields from the the west with colleagues from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.