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美国新西兰研讨会的数学应用到生物医学问题，将在新西兰举行。 共同组织者是加州克莱蒙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托马斯Rades教授。 它还将包括来自欧洲的参与者。 医学研究人员通常不知道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，交流信息、技术和方法，从而解决医学问题引发的问题。 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。 会议将丰富数学建模的知识，从动态系统，模拟和控制理论的方法应用于免疫治疗，抗血管生成和治疗方法的问题。 这次研讨会将紧接着美国数学学会和新西兰数学学会的联合会议，将于2007年12月中旬在新西兰惠灵顿举行。 共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专门知识。 这使他们能够评估和吸引最好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，与会者将建立一个网址，其中将包括研讨会的发言以及会后的重要事项。 参与者还计划制定合作研究提案，提交给资助机构。 研讨会的组织者作出了特别的努力，让研究生参与进来，他们将花更多的时间在惠灵顿当地的大学实验室获得更多的经验。

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.