Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems

这项提案是为将于2013年10月4日至6日在德克萨斯州拉伯克市的德克萨斯理工大学校园举行的第四届生物系统种群数学建模和分析国际会议提供部分资金。这次会议将提供一个场所，促进新的合作，激发新的想法，推动在几个生物水平的种群分析中的数学建模领域。要讨论的具体主题包括：细胞信号、趋化性、流行病学、物种范围变化和宏观生态学。在我们这个快速变化的世界中，跨学科合作对于开发与人类健康和生物多样性保护有关的应用程序至关重要。这次会议将汇集来自多个学科的各级研究人员和学生，以促进这种合作，并确定将其他相对不同的研究领域联系起来的共同点领域。已经作出特别努力，将各级任职人数不足的群体的成员包括在内。会议结果将通过会议网站和《生物动力学杂志》上的一期特刊进行传播。

This proposal is for partial funding for the Fourth International Conference on Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Populations in Biological Systems that will be held at the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, on October 4-6, 2013. The conference will provide a venue that will foster new collaborations that stimulate novel ideas, advancing the field of mathematical modeling in the analysis of populations across several biological levels. Specific topics to be addressed include: cell signaling, chemotaxis, epidemiology, species range shifts, and macroecology. Interdisciplinary collaborations are crucial in developing applications pertaining to human health and biodiversity conservation in our rapidly changing world. This conference will bring together researchers and students at all levels from multiple disciplines to foster such collaborations and to identify areas of common ground linking otherwise relatively disparate research areas. Special efforts have been taken to include members of underrepresented groups at all levels. The results of the conference will be disseminated via a conference website and a special issue in the Journal of Biological Dynamics.