SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

March 29, 2024

Applications of Mathematics in Medicine Workshop,
to be held at The Fields Institute

July 28 - July 30, 2003

SCHEDULE

Monday, July 28, 2003
8:00-8:55 Registration (with Continental Breakfast)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks
S. Sivaloganathan, University of Waterloo
9:00 - 9:40 Hugh R. Wilson/Fran Wilkinson (York)
Dynamical Models of Visual Cortex and Migraine auras
9:45 - 10:25
John Milton (Chicago)
Delays, Noise and Acquisition Skills
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40 Andre Longtin (Ottawa)
Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamics of eye movements during reading
11:45 - 12:25 Jacques Belair (Montreal)
Oscillations, Delays and Bifurcations in Drug Delivery Systems
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00- 2:40 Frances Skinner (Toronto Western Research Institute)
Integration in neuroscience from a cellular-based neuronal network perspective
2:45-3:25

Sue Ann Campbell (Waterloo)
Rings and Oscillators with delayed coupling

3:30 - 4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00 - 4:50 Michael Mackey (McGill)
Mathematical Models of gene regulation
5:00 - 7:00 Reception
Tuesday, July 29, 2003
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:25
Miles Johnston (Toronto)
Cerebrospinal fluid absorption: Do we know the basics?
9:30 - 10:10 James M. Drake (HSC, Toronto)
Cerebrospinal fluid circulation disorders - mystifying processes in need of mathematical solutions
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:25 C. Ross Ethier (Toronto Western Research Institute)
Biomechanics, Aqueous Humour Drainage and Glaucoma
11:30 - 12:10 Oliver Jensen (Nottingham)
Modelling the re-opening of liquid-lined lung airways
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:25 James Keener (Utah)
A Mechanism for the Onset of Fibrillation following a Heart Attack
2:30 - 3:10

Robert Miura (NJIT)
Ion Diffusion and the Spatial Buffer Mechanism in the Brain-Cell Microenvironment

3:15 -3:45 Afternoon Tea
3:45 - 4:25 Colin Studholme (UC, San Francisco)
Detecting and Mapping Brain Shape and Shape Change in Neuro-Degenerative Disease
4:30 - 5:10 Hongmei Zhu (Calgary)
Stockwell transform based noise filters in biomedical signal processing
Wednesday, July 30, 2003
8:00-8:45 Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:25
Jon Hunter (Mount Sinai, Toronto)
Can Mathematics contribute to a model of illness vulnerability?
9:30 - 10:10 Andrew Seely (Ottawa)
Complex Systems, Variability Analysis and Critical Care
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:25 Helen Byrne (Nottingham)
Exploiting macrophages to treat solid tumours
11:30 - 12:10 Amit Oza (PMH, Toronto)
Cancer and challenges in treatment design
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 2:25 Michael Mackey (McGill)
Periodic Hematological Diseases: mathematical modelling based treatment strategies
2:30 - 3:10

William F. Langford (Guelph)
A compartment model of Cheynes-Stokes respiration

3:15 -3:45 Afternoon Tea
3:45 - 4:25 John Flanagan (Toronto Western/Waterloo)
TBA
4:30 - 5:10 Mohammad Kohandel (Waterloo)
Viscoelastic modelling of hydrocephalus

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