WORKSHOP SUPPORT FOR THE IMA YEAR ON MATH IN BIOLOGY

数学及其应用研究所(IMA)是一个部分 美国国家科学基金会资助的研究所的使命是发现和利用新兴技术 数学研究其他科学问题的机会， 工程和工业。我们正在向NIGMS提议，它部分地 资助IMA计划在IMA期间举办的三个研讨会，S 位于加州大学明尼阿波利斯校区的设施 明尼苏达州。前两个研讨会在相邻的几周内举行， 1998年9月8日至12日和9月14日至18日，主题是 《图案形成与形态发生：基本过程》第一篇 Week和《模式形成和形态发生：模型系统》 第二周。如果汉斯教授是这两个研讨会的主要组织者 犹他大学的Othmer和The University的James Murray教授 华盛顿大学教授和华盛顿大学菲利普·迈尼教授 牛津大学作为联合组织者。第三期工作坊名为《数学方法》 新出现和再次出现的传染病“，定于5月17日至21日举行 1999年。主要组织者是康奈尔大学的卡洛斯·卡斯蒂略-查韦斯教授 大学和联合主办方是加州大学的萨莉·鲍尔 加利福尼亚州，旧金山，波莫纳学院的肯尼斯·库克，丹尼斯 密歇根大学的Kirschner和Pauline van den Driessche， 不列颠哥伦比亚省维多利亚大学。 研讨会的参观者将加入一个由10名数学生物学博士后组成的核心小组 和大约40名长期参与者，他们将全部居住在 程序。在所有三个研讨会中，参与者都是在这样一个 将数学家和生物学家社区聚集在一起的方法 可以从彼此的互动中受益，但可能不会 所以。我们还鼓励从行业中挑选参与者 作为学术界和一系列处于职业生涯早期的研究人员， 包括那些最近才获得博士学位的人。因此， 我们建议使用已批出的款项，以扩大参加者的数目。 这些组织超出了我们目前的核心资金所允许的范围。

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is a partially NSF funded institute with a mission to discover and exploit emerging opportunities for mathematics research on problems in the other sciences, engineering and industry. We are proposing to the NIGMS that it partially funds three workshops that the IMA intends to hold during the IMA,s facilities located on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. The first two workshops take place during adjacent weeks, September 8-12 and September 14-18 of 1998 and are on the topics of "Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis: The Basic Process" for the first week and "Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis: Model Systems" for the second week. The lead organizer for these two workshops if Professor Hans Othmer of the University of Utah with Professor James Murray of the University of Washington and Professor Phillip Maini of the University of Oxford as co-organizers. The third workshop is "Mathematical Approaches for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases," scheduled for May 17-21 1999. The lead organizer is Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez of Cornell University and the co-organizers are Sally Blower of the University of California, San Francisco, Kenneth Cooke of Pomona College, Denise Kirschner of The University of Michigan and Pauline van den Driessche, University of Victoria, British Columbia. The workshop visitors will join a core group of 10 math biology post-docs and about 40 long-term participants who will be in residence for the full program. In all three workshops, participants are to be chosen in such a way as to bring together communities of mathematicians and biologists who can benefit from interacting with each other but might not otherwise do so. We also encourage the selection of participants from industry as well as academe and at a range of researchers at early in their careers, including those who have only recently achieved their doctorates. As such, we propose to use funds granted to expand numbers of participants from those groups further than our current core funding would allow.