ALCALÁ 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY
September 5-9, 2003. Alcalá de
Henares (Madrid), Spain.
http://euromedbiomath.aicme.free.fr
Third Announcement
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 aim of the Alcalá conference is to
witness advances made in this field through plenary lectures given by some of
the leading experts in ecology, oral communications and posters. Altogether,
more than 230 papers will be presented, covering notably, but not exclusively the
following topics: population ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary
dynamics, management of living resources, population grouping, spatial aspects
of ecology, stochastic models in ecology, individual based models, multiple
scaling, etc. The conference is organized under the patronage of the University
of Alcalá, and will be held at Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso, which is part of
the university. Financial support was provided and is warmly appreciated from
the following organisms:
Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, MCYT,
French Institute of Research for Development, IRD,
Technical University of Madrid, UPM (E.T.S.I
Industriales)
University of Alcalá, UAH (Vicerrectorado de
Investigación, Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias Ambientales,
Facultad de Biología y Departamento de Ecología.
The
2nd AICME is a follow-up of the 1st 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)
.
- Robert ADLER (Technion, Israel)
Why do plankton cells aggregate: a view from
superprocesses.
- Philippe CURY (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France)
- 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.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (25 mn, organized in
sequences of five parallel sessions)
TOPICS (and organizers)
- 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)
The oral presentation
rooms will be equipped with over-head
projector and video projector.
POSTERS
Will be displayed
permanently around the cloisters. Each poster will be allocated a surface of
120cm by 120cm (larger upon request). Periods of time will be reserved during
the conference for the presentation of posters.
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).
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).
The official language of the conference is English.
The
conference begins on Friday, September 5, with an opening ceremony and a session of invited talks in the
morning 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 2pm). 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 welcoming reception will take place on Friday
after the opening lecture. A welcoming party will be organized on Friday
evening and a banquet will be held on Monday evening. Sunday September 7th will
be a free day, but some local excursions will be proposed. Information is
available on the web page of the conference.
CONFERENCE SITE
Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso
Plaza de San Diego
28801, Alcalá de Henares
Madrid, Spain
REGISTRATION
Registration will take place on September 4,
from 4pm through 10pm and September 5, from 8am through 11am at the conference
office.
The conference office is located in the courtyard of Colegio San Ildefonso.
For participants having already paid their fee: please bring evidence of
payment with you (for example, a copy of the bank transfer order).
|
NORMAL |
220
EURO |
|
REDUCED |
170
EURO |
|
ACCOMPANYING
PERSONS |
100
EURO |
The conference fee will include registration fee, coffee breaks, a book
of abstracts, the welcoming party and the banquet.
Reduced
fees are offered to members of the following societies or associations: ESMTB,
SFBT, SMB
The
conference fee (from July 30 on) should be paid in cash when registering in
Alcalá.
Information is included on our web site.
HOW
TO GET TO THE CONFERENCE SITE
Alcalá (30 km from
Madrid) can be reached easily from Madrid by train, bus or taxi.
From the airport Barajas
(Madrid international airport):
First take the subway (“Metro”) at
the airport to Nuevos Ministerios station. The price of a one-way ticket is 1.10 €.
Nuevos Ministerios is also a train station from which you must take the
RENFE urban train (“CERCANÍAS”) to Alcalá de Henares. There are three lines
connecting Nuevos Ministerios with Alcalá de Henares (lines C-1, C-2 and C-7). The price of a one-way ticket is 1.55 €. There is a train
every 10 or 12 minutes from 5:35am to 11:10pm
You can also take a taxi from
the airport to your hotel in Alcalá; the price should not exceed 40 € and it
will take you 30 minutes to get there which is less than half of the time you
will need by train.
From
Chamartin railway station (Madrid railway station coming from the north)
You must take the RENFE urban train (“CERCANÍAS”) to Alcalá de Henares.
There are three lines connecting Chamartin with Alcalá de Henares (lines C-1,
C-2 and C-7). The price of a one-way ticket is 1.55
€. There is a train every 10 or 12 minutes from 5:35am to 11:10pm.
Once in Alcalá de Henares you can reach your hotel by walking if it is
in the city center and either by bus or taxi if it is not. The conference site
is in the city center.
All the details concerning this information, including maps, are
available on our web site.
PUBLICATION OF PRESENTATIONS
Collections
of papers based on the presentations, oral or poster, made during the
Conference will appear as special issues of international journals. We have
agreements with Ecological Modelling, Mathematical Biosciences, Comptes Rendues de l’Academie des Sciences
de Paris :
Biologies, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World
Applications and Ecological Complexity. It is envisaged to have several different issues in order to cover the
variety of the themes of the Conference from Theoretical Ecology to
Mathematical Ecology. The general policy of the organizers regarding the
contents of the papers is as follows: There will be no page limitation, the
papers should comply with the criteria of novelty and quality required in
journals. Papers must in no way be an extended summary of previous work, or
work to appear elsewhere. Papers assimilated to “proceedings papers” or
“advertisement papers” will not be considered for publication. The papers
considered for publication will be refereed. A few review papers will possibly
be solicited by the editors.
The
period for submission of manuscripts will be announced after the Conference.
REGISTRATION FORM
Please
fill in on line from the Conference web site.
COMMUNICATION
E-mail: aicme@uah.es
Should electronic mail be unavailable, please
mail to:
Rafael BRAVO de la PARRA
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad de Alcalá
28871 Alcalá de Henares
(Madrid)
SPAIN
Fax:
(+34) 91 8854951
All information and more details can be found
on the WWW-server:
http://euromedbiomath.aicme.free.fr/