Mathematical Sciences: 1991-92-93 Symposia on Some Mathematical Questions in Biology

1991年的专题讨论会将是年度系列会议中的第24次。它将于8月在德克萨斯州的圣安东尼奥举行，其主题是预测生态系统空间效应的理论方法。主题包括：使用基于扩散的模型来预测动物种群的移动和分布，使用重整化理论来开发与尺度无关的空间模型，用于模拟景观变化的非线性马尔可夫模型，用于估计长期生态影响的空间生态系统模型的发展和应用，经济政策对土地利用空间格局的影响，并运用渗流理论考察了空间异质性的影响。研讨会的总体目标是让生物学家了解数学家最近的理论工作，并让数学家了解生态学家在分析和模拟生态系统时面临的一些关键问题和限制。

The 1991 symposium will be the twenty-fourth in an annual series. It will be held in San Antonio, Texas in August, and its theme is Theoretical Approaches for Predicting Spatial Effects in Ecological Systems. Topics included are the use of diffusion based models to predict the movement and distribution of animal populations, the use of renormalization theory to develop scale- independent spatial models, non-linear Markov models for simulating landscape changes, the development and application of spatial ecosystem models for estimating long-term ecological effects, the effect of economic policies on the spatial patterns of land-use, and the use of percolation theory to examine the effects of spatial heterogeneity. The overall goal of the symposium is to expose biologists to recent theoretical work by mathematicians, and to expose mathematicians to some of the key problems and constraints faced by ecologists in the analysis and simulation of ecological systems.