Opening workshop

Workshop theme

The aim of this opening workshop is to introduce participants to the different subject areas of the programme. In particular, this workshop will include a number of mini-courses aimed at senior graduate and postgraduate students, together with high level overview talks, given by world experts, which will highlight some of the major open problems in the different areas of the programme

The following mini-courses have been confirmed (more to follow):

Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences I (non-spatial models). David Anderson (Wisconsin)
Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences II (spatial models). Samuel Isaacson (Boston)
Narrow escape theory, first passage time to a small hole and applications to modelling cell biology processes. David Holcman (Paris)

List of speakers:

Ruth Baker (Oxford)
Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research)
Jasmine Foo (Minnesota)
Mike Giles (Oxford)
Ray Goldstein (Cambridge)
Des Higham (Strathclyde)
Stefan Klumpp (Max-Planck-Institut)
Rachel Kuske (UBC)
Yihan Lin (CALTECH)
Scott McKinley (Tulane)
Johan Paulsson (Harvard)
Linda Petzold (UCSB)
Christof Schuette (Berlin)
Blerta Shtylla (Pomona)
Ben Simons (Cambridge)
Peter Swain (Edinburgh)
Eric Vanden-Eijnden (NYU)
Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle)

Applications for this workshop are now closed

Fees

Registration Only

Registration Package: £234
Student Registration Package: £189

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: £TBC

Participants on the Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as Visiting Fellows, programme participants or their guests, 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 will be served at Wolfson Court in the Cafeteria from 12:30 to 13:30 on days that lectures take place.

Registration Package participants should present their badge as payment for their meal
Those issued with a blue Institute door entrance card can add money onto the card via the Porters' Lodge at Wolfson Court
Other participants must purchase their meal using their dining card via the Porters' Lodge (forms can be found on the registration desk or at the Porters' Lodge)

Evening Meal

Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner. The Formal Dinner date, time and venue will be confirmed shortly. Participants on the Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. All remaining participants are encouraged to attend at a charge (price TBC).

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 Opening workshop, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/K032208/1.

Timetable

Monday 18th January 2016
11:00 to 11:35	Registration & Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:35 to 11:45	Welcome from Christie Marr (INI Deputy Director)	No Room Required
11:45 to 12:30	*David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris* ; Konstantinos Zygalakis ; Radek Erban ; Samuel Isaacson** Eight Open Problems	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Jasmine Foo University of Minnesota Field cancerization and recurrence in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Blerta Shtylla Pomona College Mathematical modeling of cellular nano machines	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Des Higham Efficiency of Stochastic Simulations	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Poster Session	Discussion Room
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception	No Room Required

Tuesday 19th January 2016
09:00 to 09:45	David Anderson Tutorial A: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences I (non-spatial models)	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	David Anderson Tutorial A: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences I (non-spatial models)	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	David Anderson Tutorial A: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences I (non-spatial models)	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Darren Wilkinson Newcastle University Linking stochastic dynamic biological models to data: Bayesian inference for parameters and structure	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	David Anderson Tutorial A: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences I (non-spatial models)	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Linda Petzold University of California A Spatial Stochastic Model of Cell Polarization	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Peter Swain Identifying sources of variation in biochemical networks	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Discussion (SC)	Room 1

Wednesday 20th January 2016
09:00 to 09:45	Johan Paulsson Harvard University Exploiting single-cell fluctuations	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Samuel Isaacson Tutorial B: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences II (spatial models)	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	Samuel Isaacson Tutorial B: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences II (spatial models)	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge The Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics of Eukaryotic Flagella	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Christof Schuette Modelling Cellular Reaction-Diffusion Kinetics	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Ben Simons University of Cambridge Tracing the cellular basis of epidermal maintenance and cancer	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Scott McKinley Tulane University Anomalous Diffusion and Random Encounters in Biological Fluids	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Discussion (BM)	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Conference Dinner at Trinity College	No Room Required

Thursday 21st January 2016
09:00 to 09:45	Samuel Isaacson Tutorial B: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences II (spatial models)	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Samuel Isaacson Tutorial B: Stochastic Simulation of Models Arising in the Life Sciences II (spatial models)	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Advanced Lecture1 (Part I): Narrow escape theory, first passage time to a small hole and applications to modelling cell biology processes	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Rachel Kuske Noise-generated mixed-mode oscillations	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Ruth Baker Multi-level Monte Carlo: adaptive algorithms and distribution estimation	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Neil Dalchau Microsoft (UK) Performing computation with DNA	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Stefan Klumpp Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung Aspects of bacterial persistence	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Discussion (PK)	Room 1

Friday 22nd January 2016
09:00 to 09:45	David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Advanced Lecture 1 (Part II): Narrow escape theory, first passage time to a small hole: analytical theory of chemical reactions	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Advanced Lecture 2-3: Narrow escape theory application to the analysis of super-resolution single particle trajectories,	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:45	David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris Tutorial C: Narrow escape theory, first passage time to a small hole and applications to modelling cell biology processes	Room 1
11:45 to 12:30	Mike Giles Multilevel Monte Carlo methods	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch @ Wolfson Court	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Summary and Discussion (KZ)	Room 1

Stochastic dynamical systems in biology: numerical methods and applications

Organisers

Simon Cotter
Peter Roland Kramer
Ben Macarthur University of Southampton
Konstantinos Zygalakis

Speakers

David Anderson
Ruth Baker
Neil Dalchau Microsoft (UK)
Radek Erban
Jasmine Foo University of Minnesota
Mike Giles
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Des Higham
David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Samuel Isaacson
Stefan Klumpp Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Rachel Kuske
Scott McKinley Tulane University
Johan Paulsson Harvard University
Linda Petzold University of California
Christof Schuette
Blerta Shtylla Pomona College
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Peter Swain
Darren Wilkinson Newcastle University
Konstantinos Zygalakis

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Participants

David Anderson
Steve Andrews
Ruth Baker
Casper Beentjes University of Oxford
Chiheb Ben Hammouda King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Katarina Bodova Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)
Jérôme Cartailler École Normale Supérieure
Dominique Chu University of Kent
Claudia Cianci
Veronica Ciocanel Brown University
Simon Cotter
Neil Dalchau Microsoft (UK)
Luis de la Higuera
Mauricio Del Razo Sarmina University of Washington
Tom Dinitz Ohio State University
Ulrich Dobramysl University of Cambridge; University of Oxford
Kurt Ehlert
Radek Erban
Zahra Fahmi University of Cambridge
Marco Ferrarini
Jasmine Foo University of Minnesota
Mike Giles
Raymond Goldstein University of Cambridge
Hrushikesh Gore Queen Mary University of London
Ramon Grima
Claire Guerrier CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris; CREST and Université Paris 6
Jonathan Harrison University of Oxford
Des Higham
David Holcman CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris
Rebecca Hoyle University of Southampton
Nick Jones
Hye-Won Kang University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Yannis Kevrekidis
Stefan Klumpp Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung
Richard Kollar Comenius University in Bratislava
James Komianos University of Maryland, College Park
Liana Kontogeorgaki University of Southampton
Peter Roland Kramer
Rachel Kuske
Eszter Lakatos Imperial College London
Ben Leimkuhler University of Edinburgh
Shuohao Liao University of Oxford
Karen Lipkow University of Cambridge
Grant Lythe University of Leeds
Martin López-García
Ben Macarthur University of Southampton
Scott McKinley Tulane University
Lina Meinecke
Bence Mélykúti Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
James Norris
Johan Paulsson Harvard University
Linda Petzold University of California
Christof Schuette
Blerta Shtylla Pomona College
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Stephen Smith University of Edinburgh
Zhuoyi Song University of Sheffield
Kathleen Storey University of Minnesota
Peter Swain
Lukasz Szpruch
Michail Tsardakas Heriot-Watt University
Pedro Andres Vilanova King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Alexandria Volkening Brown University
Kirsty Wan University of Cambridge
Darren Wilkinson Newcastle University
Stefanie Winkelmann Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin
Kit Yates University of Bath
Ying Zhang Boston University
Konstantinos Zygalakis