US-Poland International Workshop: Micro and Macro Systems in the Life Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Bedlewo, Poland, June 8-13, 2015

题为“生命科学中的微观和宏观系统”的国际研讨会将于2015年6月8日至13日在波兰贝德勒沃的波兰科学院数学研究所斯特凡·巴纳赫国际数学中心举行。研讨会的目标是将在描述生命科学现象的不同水平的系统上工作的应用数学家和研究人员以及一些医生和生物学家聚集在一起，以便交流思想，启动和促进合作。理解生命科学中的问题是一个复杂的问题，涉及到对各种微观和宏观层面上的系统的分析。正在考虑的主题将包括癌症生物学中的微观和宏观系统、生理学、细胞内和细胞间信号以及流行病学和传染病的多尺度建模。在过去的几年里，被证明对分析和理解生物现象有用的数学工具的清单大大增加了。它们包括系统理论中跨越不同空间和时间尺度的新的多尺度技术，动力系统的新方向，偏微分方程，控制理论和计算技术。讲习班将着重介绍现有的数学工具，并将重点放在为应对生命科学目前的挑战而开发的新工具上。讲习班还将使美国和欧洲的研究人员汇聚一堂，这将有助于建立更持久的关系并促进新的合作。特别努力确保处于职业生涯早期阶段的博士生和博士后研究人员的参与，使他们接触到这一领域研究的丰富可能性，并讨论职业和资助机会。讲习班将有大量妇女和少数群体参加。研讨会记录将作为特刊发表在《数学生物科学与工程》杂志上。

An international workshop entitled, "Micro and Macro Systems in Life Sciences", will take place June 8-13, 2015, at the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN), in Bedlewo, Poland. The workshop's goals are to bring together applied mathematicians and researchers working on various levels of systems describing phenomena in the life sciences along with some medical doctors and biologists in order to exchange ideas and initiate and promote collaborations. Understanding problems in the life sciences is a complex issue and involves the analysis of systems on a variety of micro and macro levels. The topics under consideration will include micro and macro systems in cancer biology, multi-scale modeling in physiology, intracellular and intercellular signaling as well as epidemiology and infectious diseases. Over the past years, the list of mathematical tools that has proven useful in analyzing and understanding biological phenomena has grown tremendously. They include new multi-scale techniques in system theory that bridge across different spatial and temporal scales, new directions in dynamical systems, partial differential equation, control theory and computational techniques. The workshop will emphasize the mathematical tools currently available as well as focus on new tools to be developed in order to address current challenges in the life sciences. The workshop will also bring together researchers from the United States and Europe which will facilitate the establishment of more sustained relationships and catalyze new collaborations. A special effort is made to ensure participation of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers who are in the early stages of their careers to expose them to the wealth of possibilities of research in this field and to discuss career and funding opportunities. The workshop will have substantial participation of women and minorities. Proceedings of the workshop will be published as a special issue in the journal "Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering"