Spring 1999

IMA Workshop:

Local Interaction and Global Phenomena in Vegetation and Other Systems

April 19-23, 1999

Organizers:

Simon A. Levin
Department of Ecology and Evolution Biology
Princeton University
simon@eno.princeton.edu
http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/~simon/

and

Claudia Neuhauser
School of Mathematics
University of Minnesota
nhauser@math.umn.edu

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Schedule

Participants

Registration

There has been great progress in recent years in the development and analysis of deterministic and stochastic models ranging from general circulation models, which describe the dynamics of climate, to individual-based models which describe the spectral pattern of plant communities. This workshop will explore the effects of small-scale spatial interactions on the large-scale structure of communities. It addresses fundamental issues in scaling, renormalization, the interactions between levels of organization, and the interface between physical and biological processes. In particular, workshop participants will discuss how individual responses scale up to landscape levels and interact with climate systems. The workshop will bring together mathematicians with theoretical and experimental ecologists.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

MONDAY, APRIL 19
8:45 am	Registration and Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:10 am	Willard Miller, Fred Dulles and Simon A. Levin	Introduction
9:30 am	Simon A. Levin Princeton University	The Evolution of Spatial Models in Ecology
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am-12:00 pm	Nanako Shigesada Nara Women's University	Biological Invasions Into Fragmented Environments: Reaction-diffusion Models
2:00 pm	Mark A. Lewis University of Utah	Migration Models Based on Dispersal Data
4:00 pm	IMA Tea	IMA East, 400 Lind Hall A variety of appetizers and beverages will be served.
TUESDAY, APRIL 20
9:15 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am	Claudia Neuhauser University of Minnesota	The Role of Explicit Space and Environmental Stochasticity in Competition Models
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am-12:00 pm	Rick Durrett Cornell University	Mutual Invadability Implies Coexistence
2:00 pm	Stephen H. Schneider Stanford University	Surprises and Scaling Connections between Climatology and Ecology
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21
9:15 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am	Douglas H. Deutschman San Diego State University	Emergent Dynamics in a Forest Model: The Role of Local Competition and Limited Dispersal in Mediating Broad-scale Patterns in SORTIE
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	David Tilman University of Minnesota	Coexistence of Competitors in Spatial Habitats: Theory and Experimental Tests in Grasslands
2:00 pm	Glenn Flierl Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Copepods and Whales: Effects of Flow, Population Dynamics, and Behavior
3:00-4:00 pm	Poster/Video/Software Demo/Short Talk session	Lind Hall 400 & 409
THURSDAY, APRIL 22
9:15 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:30 am	Benjamin Bolker Princeton University	Clustering, Spatial Strategies, and Spatial Coexistence in Plant Community Dynamics
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am-12:00 pm	David Rand University of Warwick	Correlation Equations and Pair Approximations for Spatial Ecologies
2:00 pm	Yoh Iwasa Kyushu University	Pollen-Coupling of Forest Trees, Forming Synchronized and Periodic Reproduction out of Chaos
3:00 pm	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:30 pm	Gregg Hartvigsen SUNY-Geneseo	Modeling the Effect of Evolution on Population and Community Dynamics
6:00 pm	Workshop Dinner	Jewel of India Restaurant
FRIDAY, APRIL 23
9:15 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00 am	Matthew Keeling/Bryan T. Grenfell University of Cambridge	Local and Global Phenomena in Childhood Disease Dynamics
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
Short Talks
11:00 am	David Rand University of Warwick	Spatially Ecological Model for T-cell Receptor Dynamics
11:20 am	Christopher Klausmeier University of Minnesota	Pattern Formation in Semiarid Vegetation
11:40 am	Jonathan Dushoff Acedmia Sinica	Rescalling the Hierarchical Competition Model

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 4/16/99

Name	Department	Affiliation
Don Aronson	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Ben Bolker	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Princeton University
Linda Buttel	Theory & Simulation Science & Engineering Center	Cornell University
Hal Caswell	Biology	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gregory J. Davis	Natural and Applied Sciences-Mathematics	University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Douglas Deutschman	Biology	San Diego State University
Richard Durrett	Mathematics	Cornell University
Glenn Flierl	Earth, Atmos. & Plan.Sci.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence Gray	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Bryan Grenfell	Zoology	Cambridge University
Gregg Hartvigsen	Biology	SUNY - Geneseo
Yoh Iwasa	Biology	Kyushu University
Matthew Keeling	Zoology	University of Cambridge
Christopher Klausmeier	Ecology	University of Maryland
Clarence Lehman		University of Minnesota
Simon A. Levin	Ecology and Evol. Biology	Princeton University
Mark Lewis	Mathematics	University of Utah
Juan Lin	Physics	Washington College
Douglas Meade	Mathematics	University of South Carolina
Claudia Neuhauser	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
David Rand	Mathematics Institute	University of Warwick
Terry Root	Natural Resources & the Environment	University of Michigan
Stephen Schneider	Biological Sciences	Stanford University
Nanako Shigesada	Information and Computer Sciences	Nara Women's University
David Tilman	Ecology, Evolution and Behavior	University of Minnesota
Christina Tonitto	Integrative Biology	University of California-Berkeley
Gilbert G. Walter	Math Sciences	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hans Weinberger	Mathematics	University of Minnesota

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