CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY WORKSHOP


Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4:00 p.m. in 611 Cullimore Hall, unless noted otherwise
Directions to NJIT

PAST SEMINARS - Spring, 2002

Special Time and Date
2:45 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Analysis of Bursting Electrical Activity in Pancreatic b-Cells
Robert M. Miura
Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Experiment-Based Modeling of Oxygen Transport in Microvascular Networks
Daniel Goldman
Departments of Mathematical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
2:40 p.m., Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Matched Asymptotics: An Application to Two Problems in Mathematical Biology
Cyrill Muratov
Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 27, 2002
Phase and Population Coding in the Hippocampus
Ken Harris
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers-Newark
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 13, 2002
Reaction-Diffusion Equations for Changing Gene Frequencies
Bronwyn Bradshaw-Hajek
School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics
University of Wollongong, Australia
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 27, 2002
Roles of Synaptic Depression in Neuronal Networks
Amit Bose
Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Mathematical Sciences
and
Graduate Program in Biological Sciences
Rutgers-Newark
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Some Open Questions in a Symmetry Breaking Model That Regulates Cell Growth and Ovarian Follicle Development Through Hormonal Feedback
Michael Lacker
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
    2:40 p.m., Wednesday, April 10, 2002


A Mathematical Analysis of the Interaction
Between Two Oscillators With Different Frequencies
Farzan Nadim
Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
and
Department of Biological Sciences
Rutgers-Newark
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Network Bursting Oscillations in Developing Spinal Cord
John Rinzel
Courant Institute and Center for Neural Science
New York University
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Advances in Modeling and Numerical Techniques 
for Optimal Patterns of Suturing Wounds 
Based on Nonlinear Stress Analysis
Dawn Lott
Department of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey Institute of Technology
4:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 1, 2002
A Model Describing the Phytoremediation of Metals:
A Reset Equation
Diana Thomas
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Montclair State University


For more information about the Mathematical Biology Workshop contact:

Robert Miura, (973) 596-5464

Email: miura@njit.edu


Department of Mathematical Sciences and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

NJIT