Annual Report 2005 - Fields Institute - University of Toronto

and former president of the International Environmetrics
Society. The other invited lectures were given by Richard
Cook (Waterloo), Ross Cressman (Wilfried Laurier),
Gerarda Darlington (Guelph), David Earn (McMaster), Igor
Jurisica (Ontario Cancer Institute), Lindi Wahl (UWO)
and Jianhong Wu (York). All the lectures were of very high
quality and generated many discussions.
To promote and to facilitate networking among researchers,
an extended poster session was held during the symposium.
All participants – in particular students – were encouraged
to present their research during this poster session. The
posters addressed important interdisciplinary questions
related to food safety, urban development and nest site locations,
prediction of pregnancy, and biofilms. The winner
of the Best Graduate Poster Competition was Judith Toms
of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at
the University of Waterloo, for her poster “Modeling the
Factors Influencing Choice of Nest Site Location in Wood
Thrush”, jointly done with Lyle Friesen (Canadian Wildlife
Service), Virgil Martin (City of Waterloo) and Jock MacKay
(University of Waterloo). The selection committee consisted
of Dr. Daniel Kobler of TM Bioscience, Toronto, and
Roderick Melnik, Canada Research Chair in Mathematical
Modeling at Wilfrid Laurier University. The Committee
based its decision on the two major criteria of novelty of the
problem and the advancement of knowledge in the context
of the life sciences, and close interactions between mathematical/statistical
sciences and the life sciences, including
realistic experimental data.
The event was co-sponsored by the Fields Institute, and the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, the Office of
Research and the Faculty of Environmental Science of the
University of Guelph, and SHARCNET (The Shared Hierarchical
Academic Research Computing Network).
Invited Speakers:
Richard Cook (Waterloo)
Assessing association with clustered and truncated disease
onset data
Ross Cressman (Wilfrid Laurier)
Co-evolution, adaptive dynamics and the replicator equation
for a continuous trait space
Gerarda Darlington (Guelph)
Analysis of pretest-posttest data in cluster randomization
trials
G e n e r a l S c i e n t i f i c A c t i v i t i e s
David Earn (McMaster)
The capacity of modern cities to resist infectious disease invasions
A.H. El-Shaarawi (National Water Research Inst. &
McMaster)
Modelling and analyzing spatial-temporal environmental
data
Igor Jurisica (Ontario Cancer Inst.)
Avoiding fusion of illusion and confusion integrated computational
biology
Lindi Wahl (UWO)
Information theory reveals functional domains in proteins
Jianhong Wu (York)
Modelling spatio-temporal patterns in biological invasion and
diseases spread
Resolutions, Inverse Systems, and Co-invariants
January 13–15, 2005
Held at the University of Ottawa
Organizers: Riccardo Biagioli (UQAM), Sara Faridi
(Ottawa), and Mercedes Rosas (York)
The purpose of this meeting was to bring together researchers
from two different mathematical communities, namely
commutative algebraists and algebraic combinatorialists.
It was a continuation of the successful meeting that took
place a year before at Queen’s University. That meeting
highlighted several connections between similar techniques
used by algebraic combinatorialists and commutative algebraists
to study different problems. The Queen’s meeting
led to collaborations among several of the participants on
Workshop participants
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