Schedule For January 8, 2005

 

8:45 – 9:45       Plenary Lecture by Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki

Title: “Towards Integration of Spatial Ecology, Landscape Ecology, and

            Evolutionary Ecology.”

Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

9:45 – 10:15     Discussion Following Hanski Lecture    Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

10:15 – 10:30   BREAK

 

10:30 –11:30    Plenary Lecture by William Fagan, University of Maryland

Title: “Riverine Landscapes: Exploring Connectivity, Extinction Risk, and

           Restoration in an Alternative Geometry.”

Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

11:30 – 12:00   Discussion Following Fagan Lecture                  Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

12:00 – 1:30     LUNCH

 

1:30 – 2:30       Plenary Lecture by Konstantin Mischaikow, Georgia Institute of Technology

                        Title: “Assigning Numbers to Patterns: Topology of Complex Structures.”

                        Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

2:30 – 3:00       Discussion following Mischaikow Lecture          Room: RSMAS Auditorium

 

3:00 – 3:15       BREAK

 

3:15 – 3:45       Session A         Priyanga Amarasekare, University of Chicago

Title: “Spatial Competitive Coexistence in Patchy Environments: A Comparative

                                   Analysis.”

                        Room: SLAB Seminar Room

 

                        Session B         Peter Chesson, University of California

Title: “Quantifying and Testing Mechanisms in Spatial Ecology.”

                        Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB

 

3:45 – 4:15       Session A         Donald Olson, RSMAS/MPO University of Miami

            Title: “Structured Dynamics in Fisheries and Agriculture.”

                        Room: SLAB Seminar Room

 

                        Session B         Sebastian Schreiber, The College of William and Mary

                        Title: “Coevolution of Patch Choice in Host-Parasitoid Systems.”

                        Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB

 

4:15 – 4:45       Session A         Robert Holt, University of Florida

Title: “Temporal Fluctuations and "Inflation" in Metapopulations: Some

           Theoretical Explorations.”

                        Room: SLAB Seminar Room

 

                        Session B         Michael Doebeli, University of British Columbia                       

Title: “Adaptive Speciation in Spatially Structured Populations.”

                        Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB

 

4:45 – 5:15       Session A         Christopher Klausmeier, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: “Algal Games: The Vertical Distribution of Phytoplankton in
           Poorly-mixed Water Columns.”

                        Room: SLAB Seminar Room

                       

Session B         Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution                

Title: “Demography and Dispersal.”

                        Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB