U.S.-New Zealand Seminar: Application of Mathematics to Biomedical Problems

[0737537] radunskaya该奖项支持美国科学家参加将在新西兰举行的关于数学在生物医学问题中的应用的美国-新西兰研讨会。联合组织者是加州克莱蒙特波莫纳学院数学系的Ami Radunskaya教授和新西兰达尼丁奥塔哥大学的Thomas Rades。它还将包括来自欧洲的参与者。医学研究人员往往没有意识到当前数学模型的力量，或者怀疑它们的有效性。这次会议将汇集数学家和医学研究人员，以便开展对话，从而交流信息、技术和方法，从而解决由医学问题引起的问题。参与者在生物系统的数学建模、这些模型的分析和模拟、最优控制理论、实验免疫学和药理学等领域具有专业知识。会议将通过将动力学系统、仿真和控制理论的方法应用于免疫治疗、抗血管生成和治疗递送方法等问题，丰富数学建模的知识。本次研讨会将紧接2007年12月中旬在新西兰惠灵顿举行的美国数学学会和新西兰数学学会联合会议。共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专业知识。这使他们能够评估和吸引最优秀的研究人员参加会议。组织者打算在《数学生物科学与工程》的特刊上发表会议记录。此外，与会者将开发一个网站，其中将包括讨论会的介绍以及会后的重要项目。参与者还计划制定合作研究提案，提交给资助机构。研讨会组织者特别努力让研究生参加，他们将花一些额外的时间在惠灵顿当地大学的实验室获得额外的经验。

0737537RadunskayaThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S. New Zealand seminar on applications of mathematics to biomedical problems that will be held in New Zealand. The co-organizers are Professor Ami Radunskaya in the Mathematics Department at Pomona College in Claremont, California and Thomas Rades at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. It will also include participants from Europe. Medical researchers are often unaware of the power of current mathematical models, or are suspicious of their validity. This meeting will bring together mathematicians and medical researchers in order to open a dialogue which will result in the exchange of information, techniques and methodology that could lead to solutions of problems motivated by medical issues. The participants have expertise in such areas as mathematical modeling of biological systems, the analysis and simulation of these models, optimal control theory, experimental immunology and pharmacology. The meeting will enrich the knowledge of mathematical modeling by applying methods from dynamical systems, simulation and control theory to problems in immunotherapy, antiangiogenesis and treatment delivery methods. This seminar will immediately follow a joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the New Zealand Society of Mathematics that will take place in mid December, 2007 in Wellington, New Zealand. The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best researchers to participate in the meetings. It is the organizers' intent to publish the proceedings of the meeting in a special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. In addition, the participants will develop a web site which will include the seminar presentations as well as items of importance following the meeting. Participants also plan to develop collaborative research proposals for submission to funding agencies. Seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve graduate students who will spend some additional time gaining additional experience in the local university laboratories in Wellington.