Schedule For January 9, 2005
10:15 – 10:30 Morning Refreshments
10:30 –11:00 Session A Huaiping Zhu, York University
Title: “Transient Dynamics in a Model for the Transmission of WNV.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Victor Padron, University of Minnesota and
Universidad de Los Andes
Title: “An Evolutionarily Stable Migration Strategy under Logistic Growth.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
11:00 – 11:30 Session A Andrew Nevai, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: “A Mathematical Model of Plant Competition for Light.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Roger Nisbet, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: “Population Response to Environmental Stress in Systems with
Unidirectional Flow.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
11:30 – 12:30 LUNCH
1:30 – 2:00 Plenary Lecture by Ottar Bjornstad, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: “Spatial Contact Networks and Timing of Outbreaks in Epidemic
Metapopulations: Theory, Data and Statistics ”
Room: RSMAS Auditorium
2:30 – 3:00 Discussion following Bjornstad Lecture Room: RSMAS Auditorium
2:30 – 2:45 BREAK
2:45 – 3:15 Session A Christelle Magal, Université de Tours
Title: “Spatio-temporal Dynamics of a Host and a Generalist Parasitoid.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Frithjof Lutscher, University of Alberta and University of Calgary
Title: “Models for Stream Ecosystems.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
3:15 – 3:45 Session A William Fitzgibbon, University of Houston
Title: “Semi Linear Parabolic Systems Modeling the Spread of Disease Between
Populations with Non-coincient Habitats.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room
Session B Pierre Auger, UMR CNRS 5558 and IRD GEODES
Title: “Macroscopic Behaviour of Host-parasitoid Spatial Population Dynamics.”
Room: Library Map and Chart Room of SLAB
3:45 – 4:15 Session A Elizabeth Holmes, National Marine Fisheries Service
Title of Presentation: “Diffusion Approximation Approaches For Metapopulation
Viability Analysis.”
Room: SLAB Seminar Room