Conveners
Plenary: Tiina Roose
- Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)
Plenary: Toshiyuki Nakagaki
- Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta)
Plenary: Jane Heffernan
- Mick Roberts (Institute of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand)
Plenary: Yoh Iwasa
- Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School)
- Akira Sasaki (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI))
Plenary: Hugh Possingham
- Toshiyuki Namba (Osaka Prefecture University)
Plenary: Melissa Knothe Tate
- Helen Byrne (University of Oxford)
Plenary: Jennifer Flegg
- James Sneyd (UoA)
Plenary: Alex James
- Atsushi Yamauchi (Kyoto University)
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Infectious diseases affect individuals (immunology) and populations (epidemiology). While these two scales of infection are intimately linked, the vast majority of studies of infectious diseases ignore or greatly simplify the effects of the other scale. As a result, public health programs can be ill-informed. Mathematical models that link the in-host and population scales of infection can...
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- Lake water pollution. Players choose between cooperative (but...
There are now over 50 conservation science journals and the field is booming. The world’s top journals, Science and Nature, routinely cover conservation science issues, but the field has been dominated by ecologists. Solving conservation problems is as much about maths and economics, as it is about ecology. Our group at the University of Queensland, and our national ARC Centre of Excellence...
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The process by which a skin wound heals is complicated and requires the concerted action of a large number of cell types, chemicals and fibres. There have been many attempts to mathematically describe the wound healing process using a variety of different mathematical approaches. In this talk, I will review some of the earlier mathematical models developed for wound healing and the biological...
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