SESSIONS

- General session

- Poster session

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
        Pierre Auger (U. Lyon 1, France) and Eva Sánchez (U.P. Madrid, Spain)
- 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)