The Fourth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics

本提案为将于2013年5月29日至6月2日在中国太原举行的第四届计算与数学人口动力学会议（CMPD4）提供部分资金。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，以会面和交流他们最近的工作。会议的目的之一是扩大教育和刺激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资助研究人员（研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师），NSF的资助将是实现这一目标的关键。计算与数学种群动力学会议（CMPD4）于2013年5月29日至6月2日在中国太原举行，是数学种群动力学会议和生物相互作用确定性与随机模型会议的第四次联合会议，具有超过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）的主要研究人员，就他们目前在计算和数学人口动态方面的工作进行交流。会议将为研究生和博士后提供一个独特的机会，与这些领域的主要研究人员进行互动。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，女性和最近的博士生，努力为年轻研究人员和代表性不足的群体提供在计算和数学人口动态跨学科领域的当前研究主题和技术。此外，将在会议上提出的工作将帮助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。

This proposal is for partial funding for the Fourth Conference on Computational and Mathematical Population Dynamics (CMPD4), to be held in Taiyuan, China, May 29 - June 2, 2013. 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 (CMPD4), Taiyuan, China, May 29 - June 2, 2013, is the fourth joint meeting of the Conference on Mathematical Population Dynamics and the Conference on Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Biological Interactions, with over 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.