CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR

Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 2:40 p.m. in 611 Cullimore Hall,
unless noted otherwise
Directions to NJIT

NEXT SEMINAR FALL 2003 HAVE A NICE SUMMER!!

PAST SEMINARS - Spring 2003

2:40 p.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Maintaining Phase between Neuronal Oscillators using Synaptic Depression Amit Bose Department of Mathematical Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology

2:40 p.m., Tuesday, February 25, 2003 Understanding Human Memory Disorders: Insights from Computational Modeling Catherine E. Myers Department of Psychology Rutgers-Newark

2:40 p.m., Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Spontaneous Symmetry-Breaking by the Chemoattractant-Sensing Apparatus of Human Neutrophils: A Computational Study Dean C. Bottino Physiome Sciences  Princeton, New Jersey

2:40 p.m., Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Illuminating Functional Architectures of Spatial Representation in the Inferior Parietal Lobe in Behaving Monkeys 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 Improving Drug Discovery and Development through Modeling and Simulation 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 4:00 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

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For more information about the Mathematical Biology Seminar contact:

Robert Miura, (973) 596-5464

Email: miura@njit.edu

Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

NJIT