Meeting Support: Modeling Across the Scales - Atoms to Organisms to be held January 5-10, 2002, in Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Sumners0125000 The investigator and his colleagues in the Program inMathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB) organize aninternational conference on the subject of multiscale phenomenaat the interface of the biological and mathematical sciences.This meeting includes a broadly multidisciplinary set ofparticipants, students and researchers active at the interfacebetween mathematics (broadly defined) and biology. This projectsupports the participation of approximately 15 domestic studentsand young scientists, selected from a national pool of applicantsgenerated by web and journal advertisements for the meeting. Anunusual feature of the meeting is an opening day of tutorials,which prepare the attendees for the lectures, with mathematicalscientists introducing basic principles to biologists andbiologists giving tutorials for the quantitative scientists. Twosessions focus on issues of importance to students working at theinterface between the computational sciences and biology.Students are especially welcome to attend the meeting and presentposters on their work. The Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB)conducts research at the interface between molecular biology andthe mathematical sciences and trains students and postdocs inthis area. An essential part of this effort is a series ofconferences on mathematics and molecular biology. The meetingsprovide a comfortable but challenging environment where studentsand scientists from each discipline can learn about the otherdiscipline and about multidisciplinary approaches to the solutionof important problems in modern biology. This fostersinterdisciplinary training, catalyzes new interdisciplinarycollaborations, and in an important scientific area helps developmore people with both mathematics and biology expertise. Theproject supports students and junior scientists.