Schedule For January 7, 2005
9:00 – 9:15 Welcome Room: RSMAS Auditorium
9:15 – 10:15 Plenary Lecture by David Tilman, University of Minnesota
Title: “Niche Tradeoffs or Neutrality? A General Theory of Community
Assembly, Diversity and Species Abundance.”
Room: RSMAS Auditorium
10:15 – 10:45 Discussion Following Tilman Lecture Room: RSMAS Auditorium
10:45 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 11:30 Session A Carol Horvitz, University of Miami
Title: “Relative Importance of Avian and Mammalian Seed Dispersers to
Wavespeed of an Invasive Shrub in Everglades Nat'l Park.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Elizabeth Crone, University of Montana
Title: “Mechanisms of Synchronous Mast-seeding in Trees and Wildflowers.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
11:30 – 12:00 Session A Chun-Hua Ou, York University
Title: “Existence and Uniqueness of Traveling Wavefronts in a Hyperbolic-
parabolic Model with Delayed Non-local Interaction.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Daniel A. Griffith, University of Miami
Title: “Spatial Modeling in Ecology: Principal Coordinate and Spatial Filter
Analyses Exploiting Relative Location Information”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:30 Plenary Lecture by Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta
Title: “Volume Effects in Chemotaxis.”
Room: RSMAS Auditorium
2:30 – 3:00 Discussion following Hillen Lecture Room: RSMAS Auditorium
3:00 – 3:15 BREAK
3:15 – 3:45 Session A Horst Thieme, Arizona State University
Title: “Infinite ODE Systems Modeling Size-Structured Metapopulations and
Macroparasitic Diseases .”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Megan Donahue, California State University Los Angeles
Title: “Scaling-up Population Dynamics Using Scale Transition Theory.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
3:45 – 4:15 Session A Bingtuan Li, University of Louisville
Title: “Spreading Speeds in Cooperative Systems.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Otso Ovaskainen, University of Helsinki
Title: “Asymptotically Exact Analysis of Stochastic and Spatial Systems.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
4:15 – 4:45 Session A Nick Britton, University of Bath
Title: “Traveling Waves in Systems of Integrodifference Equations.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Justin Calabrese, University of Maryland
Title: “Species Diversity in a Patchily Distributed Bark Beetle Assemblage:
Towards a Synthesis of Aggregation Theory and Neutral Theory.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB