The Third Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3)

在过去的三十年里，结合科学计算、数学和生物学的人口动力学跨学科研究取得了巨大进展，涵盖了生物学、生态学、环境科学、流行病学、免疫学、医学等广泛的主题。本提案是为第三届“计算和数学人口动力学"会议（CMPD 3）提供部分资金，将于2010年5月31日至6月4日在法国波尔多举行。会议将突出这些领域最近的重大发展，并为与会者提供一个论坛，以交流他们最近的工作。会议的目的之一是扩大教育和激励年轻和代表性不足的研究人员的研究，基金将主要支持年轻的无支持的研究人员（研究生、博士后研究员和初级教员），NSF的资助将对实现这一目标至关重要。计算和数学种群动力学会议（CMPD 3），法国波尔多，5月31日至6月4日，2010年，是第三次数学种群动力学会议和生物相互作用的确定性和随机模型会议的联席会议，有25年的国际会议历史。这次国际会议的目标是汇集来自不同领域（应用数学，生物学，计算机科学，生态学，流行病学，医学等）的领先研究人员。就他们目前在计算和数学种群动力学方面的工作进行交流。会议将为研究生和博士后研究员提供一个独特的机会，与这些领域的领先研究人员进行互动。从NSF申请的资金将完全用于支持美国参与者，包括研究生，少数民族，妇女和最近的博士生，以努力为年轻研究人员和代表性不足的群体提供当前的研究课题和技术在计算和数学人口动力学的跨学科领域。此外，将在会议上提出的工作将有助于我们研究具有挑战性的环境和健康问题，如污染，物种入侵，新疾病的出现和现有疾病的激增。

In the last three decades great progress has been made in the interdisciplinary study of population dynamics combining scientific computation, mathematics, and biology, which cover a broad range of topics in biology, ecology, environmental science, epidemiology, immunology, medical sciences, etc. This proposal is for partial funding for the Third Conference on "Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3)", to be held in Bordeaux, France, May 31 - June 4, 2010. The conference will highlight significant recent developments in these areas and provide a forum for the participants to meet and communicate their recent work. One of the aims of the conference is to broaden the education and stimulate the research of young and under-represented researchers, the funds will principally support young unsupported researchers (graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty), NSF funding will be vital in achieving this goal.The Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD3), Bordeaux, France, May 31 - June 4, 2010, is the third joint meeting of the Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics and the Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Biological Interactions, with a 25-year history of international meetings. The goal of this international conference is to bring together leading researchers from different fields (applied mathematics, biology, computer science, ecology, epidemiology, medicine, etc.) to communicate with each other about their current work on computational and mathematical population dynamics. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to interact with leading researchers in these areas. The funding requested from NSF will be used completely to support U.S. participants, including graduate students, minorities, women and recent doctoral students in an effort to provide young researchers and under-represented groups exposure to current research topics and techniques in the interdisciplinary area of computational and mathematical population dynamics. Also, the work that will be presented at the conference will help us to study challenging environmental and health problems, such as pollution, invasion of species, emerging of new diseases, and surging of existing diseases.