2018: The Year of Mathematical Biology

The year of Mathematical Biology 2018 is a joint venture of the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ESMTB). The main objectives are to celebrate the huge increase and importance of applications of mathematics to biology and life sciences in the last years and to foster the feedback loop between life sciences and mathematics for years to come. Applications of mathematics in Biology are completely opening new pathways of interactions and they are a huge source of new mathematical problems.

An organization committee for this joint EMS-ESMTB event has been set up through the Applied Mathematics Committee of the EMS:

• Jose A. Carrillo, Imperial College London, UK. (Chair)
• Mathisca de Gunst, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Mats Gyllenberg, University of Helsinki, Finland.
• Torbjorn Lundh, Chalmers University, Sweden.
• Anna Marciniak-Czochra, Heidelberg Universitat, Germany.
• Roeland Merks, CWI, The Netherlands.
• Marek Niezgodka, ICM, Poland.
• Gael Raoul, École Polytechnique, France.

If you have any suggestions or ideas that you want to share with us, activities to be done, activities to be included or any queries, please contact any member of the committee.

Activities

• EMS-Finnish Mathematical Society-ESMTB joint Mathematical Weekend, A kick-off event for the Year of Mathematical Biology, 4th-5th January 2018, Joensuu, Finland.
• Understanding Cancer through Evolutionary Game Theory, January 29 - February 2, 2018.
• Biowiskundedagen, February 5 & 8, 2018, Gent, Belgium.
• Ninth workshop Dynamical Systems Applied to Biological and Natural Sciences, February 7 - 9, 2018, Torino, Italy.
• Simons Semester on Mathematical Biology, December 2017-March 2018, Banach Center, Warsaw, Poland.
• Principles in Microbial Adaptation, March 5 - 9, 2018, Lorentz Center Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Think-tank on host-microbiome research, March 12-13, 2018, Institute of Advanced Study, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• NVTB annual meeting, April 4 - 5, 2018, Schoorl, The Netherlands.
• The Role of Mathematics in Combatting Antibiotic Resistance and Developing Novel Antibacterials, May 14 2018, The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
• Intensive Research Program in Mathematical Biology, April-June 2018, Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Spain.
• Mathematical Biology Modelling Days of Besançon, 19-22 June 2018, Besançon, France.
• BIOMATH 2018, International Conference on Mathematical Models and Models in Biosciences and a School for Young Scientists, 24 - 29 June 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• Probability and biological evolution, June 25-29, 2018, CIRM, France.
• Mathematical perspectives in the biology and therapeutics of cancer, 9-13 July 2018, CIRM, France.
• 11th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ECMTB 2018), a joint conference of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology and the European Mathematical Society, 23-27 July 2018, Lisbon (Portugal).
• CEMRACS 2018, Numerical and mathematical modeling for biological and medical applications: deterministic, probabilistic and statistical descriptions, 16 July - 24 August 2018, CIRM, Marseille, France.
• The Helsinki Summer School on Mathematical Ecology and Evolution, August 2018, Helsinki (Finland).
• Thematic Program in Mathematical Biology, September-December 2018, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden.
• Populations: Interactions and evolution, September 10-14, 2018. Insititut Poincaré, Paris, France.
• Differential Equations arising from Organising Principles in Biology, 23-29 September 2018, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany.
• Mathematics for Biomedicine, October 8-11, 2018. Rome, Italy.