CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR



Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. in 611 Cullimore Hall,
unless noted otherwise

Directions to NJIT

Fall 2003 Seminars



4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 2, 2003


Christopher Fall

Center for Neural Science
New York University




4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003


Robert Clewley

Center for Biodynamics
Boston University



Past Seminars: Fall 2003


4:00 p.m.,
Tuesday, September 16, 2003

The Simple and the Complex of Visual Cortical Dynamics 

Louis Tao 

Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology



4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 23, 2003


Ferenc Mechler

Department of Neurology and Neuroscience
Weill Medical College of Cornell University



4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 30, 2003


Qun Marc Ma

Department of Computer Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology


4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 7, 2003


Ken Harris

Department of Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers-Newark




4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Estimating Hypermutation Rates from Clonal Tree Data  

Steven H. Kleinstein

Department of Computer Science
 Princeton University




4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003


Vladimir Brezina

Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Mt Sinai School of Medicine




4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003


Daniel Lee


Department of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania



4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 4, 2003


Gloster Aaron

Department of Biological Sciences
Columbia University





4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 18, 2003


Linghai Zhang

Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University




4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 25, 2003


Georgi Medvedev

Department of Mathematics
Drexel University



Past Seminars - Spring 2003

2:40 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2003


Traveling Waves in Autocrine Relays


Cyrill Muratov

Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology


2:40 p.m.Tuesday, January 28, 2003


Amit Bose

Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology


2:40 p.m.Tuesday, February 25, 2003


Catherine E. Myers

Department of Psychology
Rutgers-Newark


Dean C. Bottino

Physiome Sciences 
Princeton, New Jersey


Ralph Siegel

Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University - Newark




2:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 1, 2003

Reproducibility of the Single-Photon Response of Retinal Rods:
Testing Theories by Detailed Stochastic Modeling
of Underlying Biochemical Mechanisms

Daniel Tranchina

Department of Biology, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
and Center for Neural Sciences, New York University




2:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 8, 2003


Andrew LeBeau

Physiome Sciences 
Princeton, New Jersey


JOINT WITH FLUID DYNAMICS SEMINAR

11:30 p.m., Monday, April 14, 2003

NOTE: Lecture Hall II, Cullimore Hall

Integrability, Imaging of the Brain, and Boundary-Value Problems

Athanassios Fokas

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Cambridge University, England




2:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Overview of Functional Neuroimaging

Christian Habeck

Cognitive Neuroscience Division
Sergievsky Center 
Columbia University



NOTE: Time and Date Changes
2:40 p.m. Thursday, April 24, 2003

Glycolytic Origin of Complex Bursting in Pancreatic Islets

Richard Bertram

Department of Mathematics
Florida State University

NOTE:  Professor Bertram will be giving an Applied Mathematics Colloquium talk on Emergent Phantom Bursting in Pancreatic Islets on Friday, April 25 at 11:30 a.m. in Cullimore Hall Lecture Room II.


2:40 p.m., Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Challenges in Very Large Pathway Modeling
 

Frank Tobin
 
Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling Group
GlaxoSmithKline



Special Joint Mathematical Biology Seminar
Sponsored by
Joint NJIT-Rutgers (Newark) Applied Physics Program,
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics,
and Department of Biomedical Engineering

3:30 p.m., May 1, 2003
373 Tiernan Hall
NJIT

Pulsating Fluid in Your Brain

Professor Lili Zheng

Department of Mechanical Engineering
SUNY Stony Brook



For more information about the Mathematical Biology Seminar contact:

Louis Tao, (973) 596-3491

Email: tao@oak.njit.edu



Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

NJIT