14-16 Mar 2012
Oxford, U.K.
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Pattern Formation: The inspiration of Alan Turing
St. John's College, Oxford
14 March - 16 March 2012
http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/sasw08.html
*** Second Call for Papers / Registrations ***
This is a reminder that the registration deadline for the workshop "Pattern
Formation" is on 1 December 2011: currently, there are still about 20 open
slots for participation.
There will be post-workshop proceedings published as a special issue of the
journal "In Silico Biology". All participants of the workshop will be
encouraged to submit research papers to this special issue which will be
refereed to the usual standards of the journal. More information will be given
at the workshop.
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A satellite meeting of the programme "Semantics & Syntax" at the Isaac Newton
Institute: http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/SAS/
Organisers: Bernold Fiedler (Berlin), Benedikt Löwe (Amsterdam) and Philip
Maini (Oxford)
To celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing's birth and his seminal work in the
mathematical modelling of biological pattern formation, this workshop will aim
to show how mathematical modelling of pattern formation has led to (i)
significant advances in the understanding of certain aspects of biology and
chemistry, (ii) new mathematical and computational challenges. It will bring
together researchers ranging from those who do experiments to demonstrate
pattern formation to those who develop mathematical and computational
techniques to their analysis and understanding. The common theme will be the
emergence of pattern and form. The format will consist of a number of keynote
lectures, given by experts in the field, and a series of shorter contributed
talks.
Invited speakers will include:
Markus Bär, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
Markus Dahlem, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Patrick De Kepper, CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Irv Epstein, Brandeis University, USA
Alan Garfinkel, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Frank Jülicher, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Shigeru Kondo, Nagoya University, Japan
Masayasu Mimura, Meiji University, Kanazawa, Japan
Yasumasa Nishiura, Hokkaido University, Japan
Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota, USA
Kevin Painter, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Arnd Scheel, University of Minnesota, USA
Jonathan Sherratt, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Angela Stevens, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany
Peter Tass, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
APPLICATION FOR PARTICIPATION.
Due to space constraints at St. John's College, there will be a limited number
of slots for additional participants. Please apply for registration at the
website
http://www.newton.ac.uk/cgi/wsapply?CODE=SASW08
before the deadline of 1 December 2011. The organizers will select the
participants from the list of applications and notify all applicants by mid
December 2011.
REGISTRATION FEE.
The registration fee is
70 pounds registration only
230 pounds registration and B&B college accommodation (3 nights)
300 pounds registration and en-suite B&B college accommodation (3
nights)
40 pounds additional charge for the optional workshop dinner
CONTRIBUTED TALKS.
If you are interested in giving a contributed talk at the workshop, please tick
the appropriate box in the application form and fill in the Abstract Submission
Form on the website of the Newton Institute (follow the link from the
application page). In the case that we receive more requests for contributed
talks than we can accommodate in the schedule, we might arrange for a poster
session.
FUNDING & STIPENDS FOR JUNIOR RESEARCHERS.
The workshop is generously funded by the Isaac Newton Institute for the
Mathematical Sciences (INI). The INI funding also allows us to offer up to
seven stipends for junior researchers (postgraduate students and junior
researchers without permanent academic job) that cover the registration and B&B
college accommodation (230 pounds). You can apply for this stipend as part of
the application process (see above) and will receive notification together with
the registration notification.