MAA PREP Workshop - Mathematical Biology: Beyond Calculus June 12 – 18, 2011 Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, Virginia Co-organizers: Raina Robeva, Terrell Hodge, and Robin Davies
The Mathematics Association of America supports a wide variety of Professional Enhancement Program (PREP) workshops. These offer faculty the opportunity to learn new skills and boost their careers. This PREP workshop is an opportunity for math-biology faculty pairs to learn and explore the world of mathematical biology together. Problems from gene regulation, biochemical reaction networks, DNA sequencing, and phylogenetics constitute a cross-section of challenges in modern molecular and systems biology. This workshop will focus on such problems at levels appropriate for classroom projects and student research. Along with the underlying biology, participants will learn to build models using finite dynamical systems, Boolean networks, linear, polynomial, and abstract algebra, and probabilistic methods. We encourage attendance by mathematics-biology faculty teams from the same institution. No specific background in biology, mathematical biology, or computational algebra systems will be required. Biology faculty are not expected to have a specialized mathematical background beyond precalculus. Registration Fee: $175 per person or $250 per team of two people ($250 and $400 respectively for registrations received after May 1, 2011). All meals and lodging costs will be covered with registration for the workshop. Participants are responsible for their own travel. Participants will be housed in private rooms in the Florence Elston Inn and Conference Center on the Sweet Briar campus. For more information, visit http://www.maa.org/prep/2011/MathBio.html Direct questions to Raina Robeva ([email protected]) -- Sadie Jane Ryan National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) University of California 735 State Street, Suite 300 Santa Barbara, CA 93101-5504 Phone: 805-892-2520 Fax: 805-892-2510 http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~sjryan/ *Starting 2011* Assistant Professor College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) SUNY Syracuse, NY http://www.esf.edu/EFB/faculty/ryan.htm
