2010 Red Raider Mini-Symposium: Mathematical Modeling in Population Biology and Epidemiology

在过去的九年里，德克萨斯理工大学数学与统计系每年都会组织一次红色突袭者小型研讨会。通过杰出的数学家和科学家以及有前途的早期职业研究人员的会谈，展示当前数学重要性的特定领域已经建立了一个传统。 2010年，一个名为“种群生物学和流行病学数学建模”的红色突袭者小型研讨会计划于10月28日至30日在德克萨斯州拉伯克的德克萨斯理工大学举行。 这是由数学和统计系组织的第10届年度红色突袭者小型研讨会。 研讨会有七位杰出的讲者和四位早期职业讲者。今年研讨会的主题是人口生物学和流行病学中的数学建模。这个跨学科的领域利用数学技术从动力系统，差分方程，常微分方程，积分方程和偏微分方程，并将其应用到当前的问题，在人口生物学和流行病学。 研讨会的发言人和他们的研究领域强调了多种数学方法的几个应用领域，包括新出现的疾病，如流感，结核病，艾滋病毒，MRSA，复发的影响，疫苗接种，检疫和治疗策略，结构化人口模型中的混乱，表型性状的进化使用博弈论方法，人口或疾病持续和灭绝的阈值计算，肿瘤和癌症生长中的细胞动力学，以及恒化器建模中的竞争动力学。 在研讨会期间，讨论了当前的研究问题和重要的开放问题。 此外，演讲者和与会者之间的互动带来了新的合作机会。该活动是高级学者，早期职业调查人员，研究人员和学生之间互动和讨论的媒介。研讨会提出了高水平的数学研究，提供了一个刺激高等教育，并促进数学家，公共卫生专业人员，生物学家和其他科学家在西德克萨斯州和周边地区与来自美国，加拿大和台湾的参与者之间的跨学科互动。该活动吸引了来自数学科学的本科生和研究生以及来自其他研究领域的学生的多样化混合。 本次研讨会为年轻的研究人员提供了机会，了解目前在人口生物学和流行病学的跨学科研究的问题，并会见该领域的领导人。

Every year for the past nine years, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University has organized a Red Raider Mini-Symposium. A tradition has been established of showcasing particular areas of current mathematical importance through talks given by distinguished mathematicians and scientists and promising early-career researchers. In 2010, a Red Raider Mini-Symposium entitled Mathematical Modeling in Population Biology and Epidemiology is planned for October 28-30 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. This is the 10th Annual Red Raider Mini-Symposium organized by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The symposium features seven distinguished speakers and four early career speakers. Many other young investigators, including graduate students, are invited.The theme for this year's symposium is mathematical modeling in population biology and epidemiology. This interdisciplinary area utilizes mathematical techniques from dynamical systems, difference equations, ordinary differential equations, integral equations, and partial differential equations, and applies them to current problems in population biology and epidemiology. The symposium speakers and their research areas emphasize a wide variety of mathematical approaches to several application areas, including emerging diseases such as influenza, tuberculosis, HIV, MRSA, the effects of relapse, vaccination, quarantine, and treatment strategies, chaos in structured population models, evolution of phenotypic traits using game theoretic approaches, computation of thresholds for population or disease persistence and extinction, cellular dynamics in tumor and cancer growth, and competitive dynamics in chemostat modeling. During the symposium, current research problems and important open problems are addressed. Additionally, interactions among speakers and attendees lead to new opportunities for collaborations.The event is a medium for interactions and discussions among senior scholars, early career investigators, researchers and students. The symposium presents a high level of mathematical research, provides a stimulus to higher education and promotes interdisciplinary interaction among mathematicians, public health professionals, biologists and other scientists in West Texas and the surrounding region with participants from across the United States, Canada, and Taiwan. The event engages a diverse mixture of undergraduate and graduate students from the mathematical sciences as well as students from other research fields. This symposium provides opportunities for young investigators to learn about current problems in interdisciplinary research in population biology and epidemiology and to meet with leaders in the field.