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Host: Applied Mathematics Department of the University of Leeds
Homepage: http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Euromech422/, http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/ICB/icbw02.html
Email: info@newton.cam.ac.uk
Organizers: Dr NA Hill
Description:
This meeting is a Euromech Colloquium and will cover recent research on the behaviour
and pattern formation by populations of micro-organisms, (e.g. bacteria, algae and
slime moulds), as well as by motile cells (such as leukocytes and endothelial cells)
which are parts of higher organisms and form structures during growth and in disease.
The meeting will promote the sharing of ideas and techniques between the groups, both
mathematical and experimental, working in these different areas. Common themes are
expected to be
the mechanics of locomotion by pattern forming cells, on a substrate or swimming freely, and the use of random walk theory to describe individual trajectories and derive continuum models.
The topics will include:
1.Pattern formation by micro-organisms on gels, e.g. the swarming of bacteria. 2.Bioconvection, i.e. pattern formation by suspensions of swimming micro-organisms. 3.Patchiness in oceanic plankton populations. 4.Slime moulds. 5.Physiological pattern formation, e.g. angiogenesis and chemotaxis of leukocytes.
Date received: November 20, 2001
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