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• International school on "Modeling of biomaterials". Kacov, Czech Republic

  • Start
    11 Dec 2019
  • End
    16 Feb 2020

  International school on "Modeling of biomaterials" to be held at Kacov, Czech Republic, in February 10 - 16, 2020.

  The speakers of the school are:

  * Valentina Balbi

  * Abdul Barakat

  * Oded Farago

  * Vaclav Klika

  * David Nordsletten

  * Charisios Tsiairis

  More details including the aims of the school, complete program and courses description are available at http://karlin.mff.cuni.cz/biomaterials

  The registration is now open and it is expected to be closed on January 10. Scholarship covering up to the full conference fee is available for students, early career participants and participants with limited resources, see the above webpage for further details. We are looking forward to welcome you in Kacov.

  Radomir Chabiniok, Josef Malek, Anna Marcziniak-Czochra, Michal Pavelka, Benoit Perthame , Vit Prusa.

  
  

  
  

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• ICTP-SAIFR School on Community Ecology: from patterns to principles

  • Start
    20 Jan 2020
  • End
    25 Jan 2020

  ICTP-SAIFR School on Community Ecology: from patterns to principles
  

  
  

  Start time: January 20, 2020
  

  Ends on: January 25, 2020

  Location: São Paulo, Brazil

  Venue: IFT-UNESP

  Description:

  From the bacteria in our guts, to the plants in the Amazon rainforest, ecological communities are made of many individuals and populations that coexist and interact in the same environment. Despite the complexity of the interactions between species and with the environment, often these communities display regularities in key macroscopic properties, such as their patterns of abundance, composition and the interaction network.

  A quantitative understanding of the processes and mechanisms that shape the composition and diversity of such communities requires advanced tools and methods borrowed from statistical physics and applied mathematics. The school will consist in advanced courses on topics in the dynamics and structure of ecological communities, which aims both at introducing students to up-to-date question of the field as well as introduce useful mathematical tools.A particular focus will be given to the emergence of macroecological patterns (“laws”) and to their connection to  fundamental mechanisms.

  This activity will be preceded by the ‘IX Southern-Summer School on Mathematical Biology‘. Candidates may apply either for one or both schools, and preference will be given to graduate students in South America. Advanced undergraduate students are also welcome to apply. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

  Lecturers:

  • Stefano Allesina (U. Chicago, USA)
  • Priyanga Amarasekare (UCLA, USA)
  • Otto Cordero (MIT, USA)
  • William Bialek (Princeton U., USA)

  Organizers:

  • Marcus Aguiar (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Jacopo Grilli (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
  • Roberto Kraenkel (IFT-UNESP, Brazil)
  • Ricardo Martinez-Garcia (ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil/Princeton University, USA)
  • Paulo Inácio Prado (IB-USP, Brazil) 

  
  Registration deadline: November 10, 2019
  

  
  

  Information: https://www.ictp-saifr.org/community-ecology-from-patterns-to-principles/

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