Workshop Announcement:

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 Stochastic and Deterministic Spatial Modeling in Population Dynamics
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                     May 4 to May 8, 2009

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     Palo Alto, California

        http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/polulationmodel.html


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, has the objective of 
generating new ideas about how to model spatial problems arising in
epidemiology, ecology, evolution, and other areas involving population
dynamics. Some specific techniques that will be examined include patch
models, or metapopulations, interacting particle systems and their
diffusion limits, graphical models, agent based models, branching
diffusions, "small world" models. 

The workshop is organized by
Troy Day, Zhilan Feng, and Priscilla Greenwood.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/polulationmodel.html

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than January 4, 2009. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

Before submitting an application, please read the AIM
policies concerning participation and financial support
for participants.

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AIM Research Conference Center:
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