Sunday Evening, June 9, 1996:
Session on Ecology:
- Session Chair: Shay Gueron, Technion University
- Jim Cushing, University of Arizona - An Interdisciplinary Study of Nonlinear Population Dynamics: Models, Experiments, and Data Analysis
- Jim Powell, Utah State University - Local Projections for a Global Model of Mountain Pine Beetle Attacks
- Ignacio Barradas, Centro de Investigacion en Matematicas - Disturbed Competition and Coexistence
Monday Morning, June 10, 1996:
Session on Calcium and Synaptic Transmission:
- Session Chair: Arthur Sherman, NIH
- Sobhana Sivaramakrishnan, Mayo Medical Center - Calcium Channels, Calcium Transients, and Transmitter Release in Nerve Terminals
- Elis Stanley, NIH - The Single Domain Bound Calcium Model of Release and Facilitation
- TBA
Monday Evening, June 10, 1996:
Session on the Analysis of the Encoding of Information by Nerve Cells and Networks:
- Session Chair: John Miller, UC Berkeley
- Tim Gawne, University of Alabama - What are All of those Neurons in the Visual Cortex Really Doing?
- Frederic Theunissen, UCSF - Neural Encoding of Auditory Patterns
Tuesday Morning, June 11, 1996:
Session on Molecular Motors:
- Session Chair: George Oster, UC Berkeley
- Steven M. Block, Princeton University - Nanometers and Piconewtons: Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors
- Charles R. Doering, Los Alamos - Mathematical Modeling of Molecular Motors
- Alex Mogilner, UC Davis - Cell Motility Driven by Actin Polymerization
Tuesday Evening, June 11, 1996:
Session on Microbial Motility:
- Session Chair: Robert Dillon, Tulane University
- Roseanne Ford, University of Virginia - Quantitative Studies of Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis
- John O. Kessler, University of Arizona - Individual and Collective Locomotion of Swimming Microorganisms: Measurements and Modeling of Velocity Distributions
Wednesday Morning, June 12, 1996:
Session on Statistical Models, Neural Coding and Information
- Session Chair: Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
- Yan Dan, Rockefeller University - Efficient Coding of Natural Scenes in the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
- Emilio Salinas, Brandeis University - Using Population Decoding to Understand Sensory-Motor Transformation
- Emery Brown, Harvard University - A Statistical Model of the Human Biological Clock
Wednesday Evening, June 12, 1996
Session on Pattern Formation and Immunology:
- Session Chair: Sharon Lubkin, University of Washington
- Micah Dembo, Boston University - Mechanics and Control of Cell Division
- Denise Kirschner, Texas A&M University - Modeling the Immunology of HIV Infections
Thursday Morning, June 13, 1996
- Session on Biological Fluid Dynamcis:
- Session Chair: Aaron Fogelson, University of Utah
- Charles Peskin, Courant Institute - Computer Simulation of Biological Systems Interacting with Fluid
- Nicholas Hill, University of Leeds - Solving the Fokker-Planck Equation on a Unit Sphere and Applications in Bioconvection
- TBA
Thursday Evening, June 13, 1996
Session on Biological Fluid Dynamics II:
- Session Chair: Steve Vogel, Duke University
- Mimi Koehl, UC Berkeley - Smelling with Hairy Little Noses: The Fluid Dynamics of Olfactory Antenna
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