Summer School on Mathematics of Movement

Workshop theme

The aim of this summer school is to foster the development of a community of quantitative scientists who, while working on different application areas, share their knowledge and help address fundamental questions in the mathematics of movement. The goal is to identify common challenges and cross-fertilise concepts and techniques for modelling and analysing movement data in animal ecology and cell biology. With basic, as well as advanced, topics on the mathematics of movement the summer school welcomes early career researchers who are new to the area but also those who are already familiar with it.. The first three days will be dedicated, respectively, to (i) Data Acquisition and Technology, (ii) Data Analysis, and (iii) Modelling, while the 4th and 5th days will be spent working in separate groups on specific dataset and modelling challenges. There will be sessions for early career presentations and poster sessions, as well as opportunities to hear about successful interdisciplinary collaborations and various activities to enable networking with the programme organisers and the many academic participants of the programme. There will also be a competition for the best poster.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Fees

Registration Only

Registration Package: £ 243
Student Registration Package: £ 193

The Registration Package includes admission to all seminars, lunches and refreshments on the days that lectures take place (Monday - Friday), wine reception and formal dinner, but does not include other meals or accommodation.

Formal Dinner Only

Formal Dinner: £ 60

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as programme participants, the above charge will apply.

Accommodation

Unfortunately we do not have any accommodation to offer so all successful applicants will need to source their own accommodation.

Please see the Hotels Combined website for a list of local hotels and guesthouses.

Meals

Lunch

Lunch timings and location will be confirmed with timetable.

Evening Meal

Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner.

Formal Dinner

The Formal Dinner location and date is to be confirmed. Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event.

The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:

The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Summer School on Mathematics of Movement, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R014604/1.

Timetable

Monday 17th July 2023
09:30 to 09:55	Registration	No Room Required
09:55 to 10:00	Ulrike Tillmann Isaac Newton Institute; University of Cambridge Welcome talk	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	Vasudev Kenkre University of New Mexico Chair: Luca Giuggioli Infection Transmission among Rodents during a Random Walk: Exact Model Calculations	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Joanna Mills Flemming Dalhousie University Chair: Luca Giuggioli A Primer on Datasets for Movement Ecology	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Ben Lambert University of Exeter Chair: Guillermo Abramson An Introduction to Hidden Markov Models	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Edwin M. Munro University of Chicago Chair: Guillermo Abramson Analysing the molecular motions that underlie polarization and cell division in early embryos Part 1	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:05	Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz University of Exeter Chair: Guillermo Abramson Phenotyping gliding motility in glass cells	Room 1
16:05 to 16:10	Rebecca Crossley University of Oxford Chair: Guillermo Abramson Travelling wave analysis of a volume-filling model for cell invasion into the extracellular matrix	Room 1
16:10 to 16:15	Teja Curk Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Chair: Guillermo Abramson The use of social information for resource detection – a case study using white-backed vultures	Room 1
16:15 to 16:20	Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol Chair: Guillermo Abramson Quantifying stochastic search: a unifying framework via lattice random walks	Room 1
16:20 to 16:25	Oscar de Wit University of Cambridge Chair: Guillermo Abramson Why ants need antennas	Room 1
16:25 to 16:30	Helder Hugo Université de Fribourg; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior Chair: Guillermo Abramson Investigating movement and metabolism in social insects	Room 1
16:30 to 16:35	Benjamin Garcia de Figueiredo Princeton University; ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo Chair: Guillermo Abramson Interaction statistics of movement models with home-ranging behavior	Room 1
16:35 to 16:40	Genevieve Finerty Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz Chair: Guillermo Abramson Cooperation in Collective Action: On the Hunt for Role Specialisation	Room 1
16:40 to 16:45	Thomas Jun Jewell University of Oxford Chair: Guillermo Abramson Patterning of nonlocal transport models in biology: the impact of spatial dimension	Room 1
16:45 to 16:50	Toby Kay University of Bristol Chair: Guillermo Abramson Diffusion through permeable barriers: A new fundamental equation and its application	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome wine reception	No Room Required

Tuesday 18th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Kevin Painter Politecnico di Torino Chair: Philip Maini A biased random walk through models of biological movement	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Ben Lambert University of Exeter ; Joanna Mills Flemming Dalhousie University Chair: Philip Maini Fitting HMMs with the open-source Software R	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee and group photo	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:15	Kevin Painter Politecnico di Torino Chair: Philip Maini The challenges of ocean navigation	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Ben Lambert University of Exeter ; Joanna Mills Flemming Dalhousie University Chair: Helen Byrne Advanced HMMs for Ecological Data	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Edwin M. Munro University of Chicago Chair: Helen Byrne Analysing the molecular motions that underlie polarization and cell division in early embryos Part 2	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 16:05	Daniel Marris University of Bristol Chair: Helen Byrne Don't be a square: Exact Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Lattice Random Walks in Hexagonal and Honeycomb Domains	Room 1
16:05 to 16:10	William Martinson University of Oxford Chair: Helen Byrne Extracellular matrix remodelling by lead chick cranial neural crest cells is a major determinant of robust collective migration	Room 1
16:10 to 16:15	Gorka Muñoz Universität Innsbruck Chair: Helen Byrne Optimal foraging strategies can be learned and outperform Lévy walks	Room 1
16:15 to 16:20	Vit Piskovsky University of Oxford Chair: Helen Byrne Tough life of bacteria in antibiotic gradients: fast and resistant?	Room 1
16:20 to 16:25	Debraj Das Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics Chair: Helen Byrne Quantifying animal encounter and interaction processes	Room 1
16:25 to 16:30	Andrei Sontag University of Bath Chair: Helen Byrne Slow convergence of stochastic models for group navigation and cohesion maintained by non-local interactions	Room 1
16:30 to 16:35	Zohar Neu University of Bristol Chair: Helen Byrne Sociogenesis and unbounded space: Modelling cohesive collective motion	Room 1
16:35 to 16:40	Jessica Furber University of Surrey Chair: Helen Byrne Spending Energy for a Reward: Understanding the Fine Movements of Badgers	Room 1

Wednesday 19th July 2023
09:00 to 10:00	Vasudev Kenkre University of New Mexico Chair: Tim Rogers Masked Bacteria in a Petri Dish: How to Wield the Fisher Equation without Sweat	Room 1
10:00 to 10:30	Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chair: Tim Rogers The big-data revolution in movement ecology	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Guillermo Abramson Instituto Balseiro; Centro atomico bariloche Chair: Tim Rogers Don't let the tortoise escape you	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 11:45	Philip K Maini University of Oxford Chair: Tim Rogers Comparing different approaches to modelling collective cell movement	Room 1
11:45 to 12:15	Rainer Klages Queen Mary University of London Chair: Tim Rogers Generalised Langevin dynamics for movement data analysis	Room 1
12:15 to 12:20	Guy Zer Tel Aviv University Chair: Tim Rogers Whirling beetles (Gyrinidae) orientation and movement without vision	Room 1
12:20 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Formal Dinner at Corpus Christi College	No Room Required

Thursday 20th July 2023
09:00 to 09:30	Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; Université Paris-Saclay Chair: Cristóbal López Optimal resetting Brownian bridge	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	Andrea Perna IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; None / Other Chair: Cristóbal López Structure formation in social insects	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour Chair: Cristóbal López A Visual Introduction to Collective Animal Behavior	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 11:45	Eli Barkai Bar-Ilan University Chair: Cristóbal López Packets of diffusing particles exhibit universal exponential tails	Room 1
11:45 to 12:15	Erik Sahai The Francis Crick Institute Chair: Cristóbal López Interrogating spatial patterns in lung cancer using topological data analysis	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:00	Luigi Preziosi Politecnico di Torino Chair: Ran Nathan Modeling Physical Limits of Migrations	Room 1
14:00 to 14:30	Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University Chair: Ran Nathan Connecting the dots: Use of multiple regional tracking systems and styles to understand movement across borders	Room 1
14:30 to 15:00	Christen Fleming University of Maryland, College Park Chair: Ran Nathan Stochastic process models of animal movement, maximum entropy, and approximation theory	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Tim Rogers University of Bath Chair: Ran Nathan Lane Nucleation in Moving Crowds	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Poster session	Discussion Room

Friday 21st July 2023
09:00 to 09:30	Helen Byrne University of Oxford Chair: Luigi Preziosi Tumour-immune interactions - the devil is in the detail!	Room 1
09:30 to 10:00	John King University of Nottingham Chair: Luigi Preziosi Population-wave propagation in quasilinear reaction diffusion	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour Chair: Luigi Preziosi The Geometry of Decision-Making in Individuals and Collectives	Room 1
11:00 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 11:45	Cristóbal López Universitat de les Illes Balears Chair: Luigi Preziosi The interplay of mobility and spatial non-local competition	Room 1
11:45 to 12:15	Fahad AL Saadi Military Technological College; University of Bristol Chair: Rainer Klages Modelling cell polarity and movement using catastrophe theory	Room 1
12:15 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:00	Vladimir Palyulin Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Chair: Rainer Klages Target search with Levy strategies	Room 1
14:00 to 14:30	Sivan Toledo Tel Aviv University Chair: Rainer Klages The ATLAS Wildlife Tracking System: Current State and Future Plans	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Poster session	Discussion Room

Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology

Summer School on Mathematics of Movement

Organisers

Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol

Speakers

Guillermo Abramson Instituto Balseiro; Centro atomico bariloche
Fahad AL Saadi Military Technological College; University of Bristol
Eli Barkai Bar-Ilan University
Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz University of Exeter
Helen Byrne University of Oxford
Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Rebecca Crossley University of Oxford
Teja Curk Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research
Debraj Das Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Oscar de Wit University of Cambridge
Genevieve Finerty Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Christen Fleming University of Maryland, College Park
Jessica Furber University of Surrey
Benjamin Garcia de Figueiredo Princeton University; ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo
Helder Hugo Université de Fribourg; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Thomas Jun Jewell University of Oxford
Toby Kay University of Bristol
Vasudev Kenkre University of New Mexico
John King University of Nottingham
Rainer Klages Queen Mary University of London
Ben Lambert University of Exeter
Cristóbal López Universitat de les Illes Balears
Philip K Maini University of Oxford
Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; Université Paris-Saclay
Daniel Marris University of Bristol
William Martinson University of Oxford
Joanna Mills Flemming Dalhousie University
Edwin M. Munro University of Chicago
Gorka Muñoz Universität Innsbruck
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zohar Neu University of Bristol
Kevin Painter Politecnico di Torino
Vladimir Palyulin Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Andrea Perna IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; None / Other
Vit Piskovsky University of Oxford
Luigi Preziosi Politecnico di Torino
Tim Rogers University of Bath
Erik Sahai The Francis Crick Institute
Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol
Andrei Sontag University of Bath
Sivan Toledo Tel Aviv University
Guy Zer Tel Aviv University

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Participants

Guillermo Abramson Instituto Balseiro; Centro atomico bariloche
Fahad AL Saadi Military Technological College; University of Bristol
Eli Barkai Bar-Ilan University
Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University
Karen Grace Bondoc-Naumovitz University of Exeter
Gaston Briozzo Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Helen Byrne University of Oxford
Edward Codling University of Essex
Iain Couzin Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour
Rebecca Crossley University of Oxford
Debraj Das Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Oscar de Wit University of Cambridge
Francis Felici None / Other
Genevieve Finerty Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Rosa Flaquer Galmés Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Clara Flegel Heriot-Watt University
Christen Fleming University of Maryland, College Park
Viktoria Freingruber Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
Jessica Furber University of Surrey
Benjamin Garcia de Figueiredo Princeton University; ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP, Sao Paulo
Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol
Helder Hugo Université de Fribourg; Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Robert Insall University of Glasgow
Yi Jiang None / Other
Toby Kay University of Bristol
Laila Kazimierski Centro atomico bariloche
Vasudev Kenkre University of New Mexico
John King University of Nottingham
Rainer Klages Queen Mary University of London
Erika Kubisch None / Other
Vijay Kumar Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)
Kajal Kumari Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Ben Lambert University of Exeter
Karina Laneri Centro atomico bariloche
Maria Larchenko Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech); Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Hernan Larralde Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Sarah A.M. Loos University of Cambridge
Norberto Lucero Azuara Queen Mary University of London
Cristóbal López Universitat de les Illes Balears
Marco Madile Hjelt Instituto Balseiro
Philip K Maini University of Oxford
Satya Majumdar Université Paris Saclay; Université Paris-Saclay
Daniel Marris University of Bristol
Marta Martapardo Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CSIC-CEAB); Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
William Martinson University of Oxford
Roeland Merks Universiteit Leiden
Joanna Mills Flemming Dalhousie University
Edwin M. Munro University of Chicago
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zohar Neu University of Bristol
Kevin Painter Politecnico di Torino
August Paula Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Andrea Perna IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; None / Other
Alicia Peñaranda Centro atomico bariloche
Vit Piskovsky University of Oxford
Tim Rogers University of Bath
Pawel Romanczuk Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pablo Ruiz Cuenca Lancaster University
Erik Sahai The Francis Crick Institute
Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge; Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Michael Lazarus Smah University of Warwick
Andrei Sontag University of Bath
Iain Souttar Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
Yongzheng Sun Fudan University
Niccolo Tassi Universidad de Granada
Sivan Toledo Tel Aviv University
Martha Torstenson University of Minnesota
Guy Zer Tel Aviv University