ALCALÁ 2^nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY

September 5-9, 2003. Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain.

Second Announcement. Call for Papers.  

(You can also see this announcement in .doc format here)

PRESENTATION

Mathematical Ecology originated in the work of Vito Volterra, although some would date its origins even earlier with Fibonacci's counts. Nowadays it has developed into a vast segment of ecology and has considerably broadened its scope, using mathematical techniques as varied as fractals or stochastic differential equations. It has also evolved towards computer implementation, which is now growing as a separate body but which we believe should still attract the interest of mathematicians. The conference will feature recent advances in mathematical ecology, using new but also classical approaches, in a variety of topics including (but not limited to) the following: population ecology, behavioral ecology, ecotoxicology, evolutionary dynamics, management of living resources, population grouping, spatial aspects of ecology, stochastic models in ecology, individual based models, multiple scaling, etc.. Proposals for organizing sessions on these topics or other related ones are encouraged.

  The 2^nd AICME is a follow-up of the 1^st one, which was held in September 1998 in Alcalá de Henares (http://www2.uah.es/matema/Aicme/aicme.htm); attended by more than 200 participants, it gave rise to special issues in four journals (Ecological Modelling, Mathematical Biosciences, Natural Resource Modeling and Nonlinear Analysis R.W.A.) (http://www2.uah.es/matema/Aicme/inst_proceedings.htm) .

PLENARY LECTURES

  - Robert ADLER (Technion, Israel)
Why do plankton cells aggregate: a view from superprocesses.
- Philippe CURY (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)
Diversity: Future Challenge for modelling in fisheries Oceanography
- André M. de ROOS (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
The influence of size-dependent life history traits on the structure and dynamics of populations and communities
- Lev GINZBURG (University of Stony Brook, USA)
Ecological Orbits. How planets move and populations grow
- Louis GROSS (University of Tennessee, USA)
Spatial Control in Ecology: Turning Theory into Practice for Natural System Management
- Yoh IWASA (University of Kyushu, Japan)
Synchronized reproduction of trees in the forests
- Mathew KEELING (University of Warwick, UK)
Understanding local structure in epidemics: Networks and pair-wise approximations.
- Bob KOOI (Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Food web models as dynamical systems 
- Michel LANGLAIS (University of Bordeaux, France)
Structured population dynamics problems with spatial migration: applications to heterogeneous insular populations.
-Nils Chr. STENSETH (University of Oslo, Norway)
Modelling ecological effects of climate fluctuations through the statistical modelling of long-term time series data
- Mark WOOLHOUSE (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Modelling infectious diseases of livestock.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

 
- Behavior-mediated population dynamics.
Vlastimil Krivan (Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic)
- Bifurcation and singularities in models of biosystems
 Faina Berezovtskaya (Howard University, USA)
 - Control and optimization in ecological problems
Jean Luc Gouzé (INRIA, France)
- Demography and dispersal: integrating spatial movement and the life cycle.
Hal Caswell and Michael G. Neubert (WHOI, USA)
- Dynamic Energy Budget theory for metabolic organization.
S.A.L.M. Kooijman (Free U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Ecological applications of theoretical and simulation studies of branching stochastic processes.
Maroussia Slavtchova-Bojkova (Sofia, Bulgaria) and Manuel Molina (U.de Extremadura, Spain)
- From individuals to populations and communities.
Eva Sánchez (U.P. Madrid, Spain) and Pierre Auger (U. Lyon 1, France)
- Individual-based spatial simulations of ecological systems.
Tania Kostova (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
- Life history problems and structured populations.
Àngel Calsina and Joan Saldaña (U. Girona, Spain)
- Mathematical aspects of fragmentation and coagulation models with application to ecology.
Ovide Arino (IRD, France) and Ryszard Rudnicki (Silesian University, Poland)
- Mathematical modeling and computer simulations in the context of the management of renewable resources.
Moulay L. Hbid (U. Marrakech, Morocco) and Omar Ettahiri (INRH, Morocco)
- Mathematical modelling of population dynamics involving delay differential equations
Paolo Fergola (U. Naples, Italy)
- Matrix models of population dynamics: straightforward applications and inspiring mathematics.
Dmitrii O. Logofet (Moscow State U., Russia) and Hal Caswell (WHOI, USA).
- Modelling the spread of diseases in animal populations.
Suzanne Touzeau (INRA, France)
- Molecular Ecology.
Marek Kimmel (Rice U., USA)
- Pattern and process in terrestrial plant communities: integrating empirical and theoretical approaches
Miguel Ángel Zavala (U. de Alcalá, Spain)
- Pattern formation, spatio-temporal chaos and noise in theoretical population dynamics.
Horst Malchow (U. Osnabrück, Germany) and Frank M. Hilker (U. Osnabrück, Germany) 
- Small and mesoscale processes in the ocean and their impact on the marine ecosystem.
Henning Wehde and Corinna Schrum (Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany)
- Spatio-temporal complexity in population dynamics.
Shigui Ruan (U. of Miami, USA)
- Stochastic versus Deterministic Modeling in Population Biology
Shay Gueron (U. of Haifa, Israel) 
- Theory and observations of invasion processes
Sergei V. Petrovskii (Russian Academy of Science, Russia) and Horst Malchow (U. Osnabrück, Germany)
 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

R. Arditi (Inst. Nat. Agronomique, France), P. Auger (U. Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), J. Brindley (U. Leeds, UK), A. Calsina (U. Girona, Spain), H. Caswell (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA), J. Cushing (U. Arizona, USA), A. de Roos (U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands), P. Fergola (U. Naples, Italy), J.L. Gouzé (INRIA, France), T. Hallam (U. Tennessee, USA), A. Hastings (U. California, USA), M.L. Hbid (U. Marrakech, Morocco), H. Heesterbeek (U. Utrecht, The Netherlands), S.E. Jorgensen (U. Copenhagen, Denmark), V. Kaitala (U. Jyvaskyla, Finland), S.A.L.M. Kooijman (Free U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands), T. Kostova (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA), V. Krivan (Institute of Entomology, Czech Republic), S. Levin (Princeton U., USA), H. Malchow (U. Osnabrück, Germany), F. Milner (Purdue U., USA), C. Mullon (I.R.D., France), M. Pascual (U. Michigan, USA), S. Rinaldi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), H. Smith (U. Arizona, USA), A. Stevens (Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany), L. Stone (U. Tel Aviv, Israel), S. Tuljapurkar (Stanford U., USA).  

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

O. Angulo (U. Valladolid, Spain), O. Arino (I.R.D., France), A. Blasco (U. Alcalá, Spain), R. Bravo de la Parra (U. Alcalá, Spain), S. Charles (U. Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France), Pablo Gómez (U. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), M.L. Hbid (U. Marrakech, Morocco), J.C. Poggiale (Marseille Oceanographic Center, France), E. Sánchez (U. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), L. Sanz (U. Politécnica de Madrid, Spain), M.A. Zavala (U. de Alcalá, Spain).  

LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.  

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The conference begins on Friday, September 5, with an opening ceremony in the morning and a session of invited talks and a session of contributed talks in the afternoon. On Saturday and Monday, there will be two sessions each day, one before lunch and one after (lunch time in Spain is around 14h). On Tuesday, there will be a morning session so as to close the conference before lunch. Sunday, September 7, is a free day to enjoy the endless possibilities of Madrid and its surroundings.  

SOCIAL EVENTS

A welcome party will be organized on Friday evening and a banquet on Monday evening.

LOCATION

Alcalá de Henares is a medium sized town (190.000 inhabitants) 30Kms from Madrid, the capital city of Spain and is connected by a frequent train service to Madrid (a train every 15mn). There are also buses, to and from Madrid. Alcalá de Henares is an old town with vestiges from the neolithic period. It was an important roman town called Complutum, and its present name dates from the Arab occupation. After the Reconquest, Alcalá fell under the authority of the Archbishops of Toledo, who constructed an archbishop's palace used as a second residence. University studies in Alcalá date from 1293, though it was the Archbishop Cisneros who decided to build the whole university city in 1499. Alcalá became one of the main focuses of Spanish culture until the transfer of the University Complutense to Madrid in 1836. Alcalá is known as the home town of Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. In 1998 the UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added the University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares to its World Heritage List of cultural and natural sites. This old part of Alcalá is of reasonable dimensions and is an enjoyable place to wander around.  

CONFERENCE SITE

COLEGIO MAYOR DE SAN ILDEFONSO
Plaza de San Diego s/n, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
 

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee will include registration fee, coffee breaks, a book of abstracts, a welcome party and a banquet.
Reduced fees are offered to members of the following societies or associations: ESMTB, SFBT, SMB
Details about payment will be introduced in the web page, as soon as they become available.

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