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IMA Visitors for the 2007-2008 Year on
Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Other Events

Long Term Visitors
Name Department Affiliation Period of Visit
Claudio Altafini Department of Functional Analysis and Applications International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) 4/15/08 - 5/15/08
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 7/15/01 - 6/30/08
Donald G. Aronson Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota 9/1/02 - 12/31/10
F. Javier Arsuaga Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University 9/3/07 - 12/22/07
Peter W. Bates Department of Mathematics Michigan State University 9/1/07 - 12/22/07
John Baxter School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 8/1/07 - 2/1/08
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 3/1/08 - 6/30/08
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University 1/15/08 - 6/30/08
Dennis Bray Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge 5/1/08 - 5/30/08
Shi-Jie Chen Department of Physics University of Missouri 9/3/07 - 11/3/07
Yung-Sze Choi Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut 4/1/08 - 5/31/08
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa 9/1/07 - 1/19/08
Kequan Ding   Chinese Academy of Sciences 4/15/08 - 5/31/08
Sergei Fedotov School of Mathematics University of Manchester 5/5/08 - 6/4/08
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University 4/1/08 - 6/30/08
Robert Guy Department of Mathematics University of California, Davis 3/24/08 - 6/24/08
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University 1/2/08 - 6/30/08
Dirk Hartmann   Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 5/22/08 - 6/21/08
Christine E. Heitsch School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology 9/4/07 - 11/3/07
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota 9/4/07 - 6/30/08
Imre M. Jánosi Department of Physics of Complex Systems Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) 2/1/08 - 6/30/08
Tiefeng Jiang School of Statistics University of Minnesota 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa 8/30/07 - 1/20/08
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University 8/17/07 - 6/1/08
Attila Gyula Kocsis Structural Mechanics Budapest University of Technology and Economics 12/1/07 - 12/26/07
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1/8/08 - 6/30/08
Juan C. Latorre   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1/10/08 - 6/30/08
Chang Hyeong Lee   Worcester Polytechnic Institute 10/14/07 - 1/4/08
Christopher J. Lee Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles 1/10/08 - 3/10/08
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
Vicenc Mendez Department of Physics Autonomous University of Barcelona 5/1/08 - 5/31/08
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
Kenneth C. Millett Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara 9/13/07 - 10/17/07, 1/10/08 - 2/8/08
Maria Giovanna Mora Department of Mathematics International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) 9/1/07 - 12/22/07
Timothy Newman   Arizona State University 9/1/07 - 7/15/08
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota 1/9/08 - 6/30/08
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
Bobby Philip Department of Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Los Alamos National Laboratory 4/16/08 - 5/30/08
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas 1/10/08 - 6/30/08
Sebastian Ambrose Sandersius Department of Physics Arizona State University 5/1/08 - 6/14/08
Jeffery G. Saven Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania 3/19/08 - 6/10/08
Brigitte Servatius Department of Mathematics Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1/10/08 - 2/8/08
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota 9/1/06 - 8/31/08
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University 9/5-26/07, 10/24-11/7/07, 1/8-22/08, 2/27-3/12/08, 4/15-4/29/08, 5/21-6/4/08
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 9/1/07 - 6/30/08
David Swigon Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh 9/4/07 - 12/14/07
Mariel Vazquez Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University 9/3/07 - 12/22/07
Annika Wedemeier Biophysics of Macromolecules Department German Cancer Research Center 9/15/07 - 10/12/07
Hans Weinberger School of Mathematics University of Minnesota 2/13/08 - 6/30/08
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University 9/4/07 - 6/1/08
Arghir Dani Zarnescu Mathematical Institute University of Oxford 11/12/07 - 12/9/07

Tutorial: Mathematics of Nucleic Acids
September 15, 2007
Name Department Affiliation
Pranav Agarwal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Tanuj Aggarwal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Ramzi Alsallaq Institute of Molecular Biophysics Florida State University
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
F. Javier Arsuaga Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Nathan A. Baker Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Washington University School of Medicine
Daniel J. Bates Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John Baxter Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Yermal Sujeet Bhat Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Victor Bloomfield Department of Biochemistry University of Minnesota
Richard J. Braun Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Delaware
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Larry Carson   3M
Brandon Chabaud School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Shi-Jie Chen Department of Physics University of Missouri
Gregory S. Chirikjian Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Bernard D. Coleman School of Engineering Rutgers University
Jeremy Curuksu School of Engineering and Science Jacobs University
Luke Czapla Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Melanie DeVries Mathematics Department University of Iowa
Marcia O. Fenley Department of Physics Florida State University
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou St. Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota
Andrew Gastineau Mathematics/Engineering University of Minnesota
Anant Godbole Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Jack Goldfeather Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Carleton College
Jason E. Gower Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Christine E. Heitsch School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Dan Jung Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Alex Kasman Department of Mathematics College of Charleston
Christopher Kauffman Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
Christine A Kelley Department of Mathematics Ohio State University
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Christian E. Laing Department of Mathematics, Chemistry New York University
Ham Ching Lam   University of Minnesota
Jörg Langowski Division of Biophysics of Macromolecules Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Cancer Research)(DKFZ)
Anton Leykin Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Sookkyung Lim Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati
Chun-Chi Lin Department of Mathematics National Taiwan Normal University
Maggie Linak CEMS University of Minnesota
Roger Y. Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Jennifer Mann Department of Mathematics University of Texas
Kyle McQuisten Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Katy Micek Mathematics University of Minnesota
Ezra Miller Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Kenneth C. Millett Department of Mathematics University of California
Hyeyoung Moon Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
David Morrissey Mathematics/Physics University of Minnesota
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Olalla Nieto Faza Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
John Oprea Department of Mathematics Cleveland State University
Daniel Osei-Kuffuor Scientific Computation University of Minnesota
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Teresita Ramirez-Rosas Department of Mathematics University of California
Huzefa Rangwala Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
Dale Rolfsen Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia
Luca Rondi School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
George Rublein Department of Mathematics College of William and Mary
Murti Salapaka Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota
Deena Schmidt Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tamara Schmidt-Hegge   University of Minnesota
Hullas Sehcal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Koya Shimokawa Department of Mathematics Saitama University
Sushmita Singh Genomics University of Minnesota
Andrzej Stasiak Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale University of Lausanne
Andrew Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David Swigon Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Andrew Travers Department of Cell Biology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tanya Vassilevska Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mariel Vazquez Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Haiyan Wang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peng Wu   Rockefeller University
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Yanji Xu   Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Hongchao Zhang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Guohui Zheng Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University

Workshop: Mathematics of DNA Structure, Function, and Interactions
September 16-21, 2007
Name Department Affiliation
Pranav Agarwal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Tanuj Aggarwal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Ramzi Alsallaq Institute of Molecular Biophysics Florida State University
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
F. Javier Arsuaga Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Nathan A. Baker Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Washington University School of Medicine
Daniel J. Bates Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter W. Bates Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
John Baxter Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Craig Benham Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California
Meredith Betterton Department of Physics University of Colorado
Yermal Sujeet Bhat Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John Bida Biochemistry Department Mayo Clinic
Betul Bilgin   University of Minnesota
Victor Bloomfield Department of Biochemistry University of Minnesota
Erik Boczko Department of Biomedical Informatics Vanderbilt University
Richard J. Braun Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Delaware
Dorothy E. Buck Department of Mathematics Imperial College London
Gregory Buck Department of Mathematics Saint Anselm College
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Shi-Jie Chen Department of Physics University of Missouri
Gregory S. Chirikjian Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Bernard D. Coleman School of Engineering Rutgers University
Vincent Croquette Departement de Physique École Normale Supérieure
John Crow   University of Minnesota
Feng Cui   National Institutes of Health
Jeremy Curuksu School of Engineering and Science Jacobs University
Luke Czapla Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Melanie DeVries Mathematics Department University of Iowa
Yuanan Diao Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Claus Ernst Department of Mathematics Western Kentucky University
Marcia O. Fenley Department of Physics Florida State University
Laura Finzi Department of Physics Emory University
Anant Godbole Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Jason E. Gower Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Steve Harvey School of Biology Georgia Institute of Technology
Christine E. Heitsch School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Xia Hua Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Makkuni Jayaram Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology University of Texas
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Jason D. Kahn Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry University of Maryland
George Karypis Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota
Alex Kasman Department of Mathematics College of Charleston
Christopher Kauffman Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
Christine A Kelley Department of Mathematics Ohio State University
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Mark Kon Department of Mathematics and Statistics Boston University
Christian E. Laing Department of Mathematics, Chemistry New York University
Jörg Langowski Division of Biophysics of Macromolecules Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (Cancer Research)(DKFZ)
Richard Lavery Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Stephen D. Levene Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Texas at Dallas
Anton Leykin Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
David M.J. Lilley The Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group University of Dundee
Sookkyung Lim Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati
Chun-Chi Lin Department of Mathematics National Taiwan Normal University
Maggie Linak CEMS University of Minnesota
Roger Y. Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
James Maher   Mayo Clinic
Jennifer Mann Department of Mathematics University of Texas
John F. Marko Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology and Physics Northwestern University
Kyle McQuisten Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Ezra Miller Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Willard Miller Jr. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Kenneth C. Millett Department of Mathematics University of California
Hyeyoung Moon Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Maria Giovanna Mora Department of Mathematics International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)
Tolkynay Myrzakul Physics Department Kazakh Al-Farabi State National University
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Texas Woman's University
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Olalla Nieto Faza Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Isamu Ohnishi Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences Hiroshima University
Wilma K. Olson Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
John Oprea Department of Mathematics Cleveland State University
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Jinhae Park Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Ariel Prunell Genome Biology Institut Jacques Monod
Teresita Ramirez-Rosas Department of Mathematics University of California
Graham Randall Department ofStructural & Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics Baylor College of Medicine
Huzefa Rangwala Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
Eric Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Dale Rolfsen Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia
Ioulia Rouzina Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota
George Rublein Department of Mathematics College of William and Mary
Deena Schmidt Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Koya Shimokawa Department of Mathematics Saitama University
David Snyder Department of Mathematics Texas State University-San Marcos
Andrzej Stasiak Laboratoire d'Analyse Ultrastructurale University of Lausanne
Andrew Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David Swigon Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Irwin Tobias Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Andrew Travers Department of Cell Biology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Lawrence Varela Computer Science San Francisco State University
Tanya Vassilevska Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mariel Vazquez Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Alexander Vologodskii Department of Chemistry New York University
Haiyan Wang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Annika Wedemeier Biophysics of Macromolecules Department German Cancer Research Center
Guowei Wei Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Shimon Weiss Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry University of California
Jonathan Widom Department of Chemistry Northwestern University
Peng Wu   Rockefeller University
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Yanji Xu   Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Lynn Zechiedrich Department of Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Baylor College of Medicine
Hongchao Zhang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Guohui Zheng Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Victor B. Zhurkin Laboratory of Cell Biology National Cancer Institute

Workshop: RNA in Biology, Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
October 29-November 2, 2007
Name Department Affiliation
Mirela Andronescu Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
F. Javier Arsuaga Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Rolf Backofen Institute of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Nina Barnett   University of Minnesota
Alex Bateman   Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Daniel J. Bates Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter W. Bates Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
John Baxter Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Yermal Sujeet Bhat Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Eckart Bindewald Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
Michael Bon Service de Physique Theorique Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA)-Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay (CENS)
Steven Brenner Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of California
Anke Busch Bioinformatics Group Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
David Case Department of Molecular Biology Scripps Research Institute
Shi-Jie Chen Department of Physics University of Missouri
Arkadiusz Chworos Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry University of California
Peter Clote   Boston College
Anne E. Condon   University of Wisconsin
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Irma Cruz-White Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Chipola College
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Kaushik Dayal Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Maciej Dlugosz Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling University of Warsaw
Mauricio Esguerra Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Marcia O. Fenley Department of Physics Florida State University
Jes Frellsen Department of Molecular Biology University of Copenhagen
Hin Hark Gan Department of Chemistry New York University
Paul Gardner Rfam Group Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Daniel Gautheret Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)
Zhumur Ghosh Computational Biology Group Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)
George Madalin Giambasu Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Haipeng Gong BMB University of Chicago
Jan Gorodkin Division of Genetics and Bioinformatics, IBHV University of Copenhagen
Jason E. Gower Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Christine E. Heitsch School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology
Hugh Heldenbrand Chemistry Department University of Minnesota
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Ivo L. Hofacker Institut für Theoretische Chemie Universität Wien
Mihaela Iftime   Boston University
Tan Inoue Department of Chemistry Kyoto University
Hosna Jabbari Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia
Luc Jaeger Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry University of California
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Wojciech (Voytek) Kasprzak Nanobiology Program / Basic Research Program National Cancer Institute
Abdelouahab Kenoufi Institute of Physics Universität Basel
Namhee Kim Department of Chemistry New York University
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Rob Knight Department of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry University of Colorado
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Erick kuechler Chemistry Department University of Minnesota
Christian E. Laing Department of Mathematics, Chemistry New York University
Chang Hyeong Lee Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Hyunju Lee Chemistry Department University of Minnesota
Tai-Sing Lee Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Neocles B. Leontis Department of Chemistry Bowling Green State University
Anton Leykin Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
David M.J. Lilley The Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group University of Dundee
Stinus Lindgreen Bioinformatics Centre University of Copenhagen
Carlos Siva Lopez Chemistry Department University of Minnesota
Andy Lorenz Department of Biology Boston College
Roger Y. Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Maciej Maciejczyk Department of Chemistry Cornell University
Francois Major Departement d'Informatique et de Recherche Operationnelle University of Montreal
Bibekanand Mallick Computational Biology Group Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS)
David H. Mathews Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics University of Rochester
Roderick Melnik CRC in Mathematical Modeling Wilfrid Laurier University
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Maria Giovanna Mora Department of Mathematics International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)
Alejandro Morales Valencia Department of Computational Sciences University of Guadalajara
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Texas Woman's University
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Olalla Nieto Faza Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Asamoah Nkwanta Department of Mathematics Morgan State University
Ruth Nussinov Computational Structural Biology Group National Cancer Institute
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Wilma K. Olson Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Henri Orland Service de Physique Theorique Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique Saclay (CEA)
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Tao Pan Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago
Jakob Skou Pedersen The Bioinformatics Center/Department of Molecular Biology University of Copenhagen
Niles A. Pierce Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics California Institute of Technology
Yann Ponty Department of Biology Boston College
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Jens Reeder Technische Fakultät Universität Bielefeld
Yongwu Rong Department of Mathematics George Washington University
Ioulia Rouzina Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics University of Minnesota
Walter Larry Ruzzo Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington
Tamar Schlick Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Deena Schmidt Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Hullas Sehcal Electrical Engeneering University of Minnesota
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Bruce A. Shapiro CCR Nanobiology Program/NCI - Frederick National Cancer Institute
Tobin R. Sosnick Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago
Andrew Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Michael Stich   Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial
Andrew M. Stuart Mathematics Institute University of Warwick
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David Swigon Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Berhanu Tameru Center for Computational Epidemiology, Bioinformatics & Risk Analysis (CCEBRA) Tuskegee University
Chris Thachuk Department of Computer Science University of British Columbia
Devarajan Thirumalai Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Maryland
Madhan Tirumalai Department of Biology and Biochemistry University of Houston
Elfar Torarinsson Division of Genetics and Bioinformatics, IBHV and Center for Bioinformatics University of Copenhagen
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tanya Vassilevska Center for Applied Scientific Computing Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Mariel Vazquez Department of Mathematics San Francisco State University
Jérôme Waldispühl Applied Mathematics & CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haiyan Wang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Stefan Washietl Institute of Theoretical Chemistry and Structural biology Universität Wien
Eric Westhof Institut de biologie moleculaire et cellulaire du CNRS Université de Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur)
Sebastian Will Institute of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Sarah Woodson Department of Biophysics Johns Hopkins University
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Yurong Xin Computational Bilogy, Chemistry & Biomathematics New York University
Yi Xing Department of Internal Medicine & Biomedical Engineering University of Iowa
Yanji Xu   Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Chuan Xue Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Masoud Yari Department of Mathematics Indiana University
Darrin M. York Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Hongchao Zhang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Zhichuan Zhang Computer Science Department University of British Columbia
Likun Zheng Math Department University of Minnesota
Craig L. Zirbel Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bowling Green State University
Michael Zuker Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tutorial: Mathematics of Proteins
January 10-11, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Daniel J. Bates Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John Baxter Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Yermal Sujeet Bhat Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Jamie Blundell Department of Physics University of Cambridge
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Larry Carson   3M
Alessandro Cembran Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Patrick L Coleman Department of Biotechnology 3M
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Yuanan Diao Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Oguz C. Durumeric Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Ece Cazibe Gaffarogullari Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Andrew Gillette Department of Mathematics University of Texas
Laura Rocio Gonzalez-Ramirez Department of Mathematics CINVESTAV
Jason E. Gower Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Omar Haq Computational Biology and Molecular Biopphysics Rutgers University
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Kimberly Jean Huerter Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Filip Jagodzinski Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Abdul Khaliq Department of Mathematical Sciences Middle Tennessee State University
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Patrice Koehl Department of Computer Science Genome Center University of California
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Christian E. Laing Department of Mathematics, Chemistry New York University
Juan Latorre Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Audrey Lee Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts
Michael Levitt Department of Cell Biology Stanford University
Robert Michael Lewis Department of Mathematics College of William and Mary
Anton Leykin Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Kenneth C. Millett Department of Mathematics University of California
Alejandro Morales Valencia Department of Computational Sciences University of Guadalajara
Naoto Morikawa   GENOCRIPT
Antonio Mucherino Departimento di Matematica Seconda Università di Napoli
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Texas Woman's University
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Duane Q. Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Candice Price Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Rahul Ravindrudu Department of Computer Science Iowa State University
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Shantanu Roy Institute of Physics Universität Basel
Deena Schmidt Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tamara Schmidt-Hegge   University of Minnesota
Brigitte Servatius Department of Mathematics Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Atilla Sit Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Daniel Smith Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Andrew M. Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Ileana Streinu Department of Computer Science Smith College
Vlad Sukhoy Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Weitao Sun Department of Computer Science New Mexico State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Michael Tomasini   Rutgers University
Alex Tropsha School of Pharmacy University of North Carolina
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Steven Wojtkiewicz Department of Civil Engineering University of Minnesota
Di Wu Department of Mathematics Western Kentucky University
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Chuan Xue Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Ya-xiang Yuan Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hongchao Zhang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Likun Zheng Mathematics Department University of Minnesota

Workshop: Protein Folding
January 14-18, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Hoda Abdel-Aal Bettley Pharmacy Department University of Manchester
Nancy M. Amato Department of Computer Science Texas A & M University
David F. Anderson Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Douglas N. Arnold Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Rolf Backofen Institute of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Ivet Bahar Department of Computational Biology University of Pittsburgh
Nathan A. Baker Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Washington University School of Medicine
Daniel J. Bates Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John Baxter Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Yermal Sujeet Bhat Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Victor Bloomfield Department of Biochemistry University of Minnesota
Jamie Blundell Department of Physics University of Cambridge
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Hue-Sun Chan Department of Biochemistry University of Toronto
Shi-Jie Chen Department of Physics University of Missouri
Alan C. Cheng   Amgen Cambridge Research Center
Gregory S. Chirikjian Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Evangelos A. Coutsias Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of New Mexico
Lenore J. Cowen Department of Computer Science Tufts University
Isabel K. Darcy Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Yuanan Diao Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Ken A. Dill Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of San Francisco
Yang Ding Department of Biology Boston College
Ron Elber Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas
Claus Ernst Department of Mathematics Western Kentucky University
Elisenda Feliu Facultat de Matemàtiques University of Barcelona
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Anant Godbole Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Laura Rocio Gonzalez-Ramirez Department of Mathematics CINVESTAV
Jason E. Gower Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Sergei Grudinin   INRIA Rhone-Alpes Research Unit
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Omar Haq Computational Biology and Molecular Biopphysics Rutgers University
Milena Hering Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Kenneth Hinson Department of Mathematics University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Xia Hua Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gerhard Hummer Laboratory of Chemical Physics National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Sorin Istrail Department of Computer Science Brown University
Filip Jagodzinski Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Christopher Jarzynski Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Maryland
Robert L. Jernigan Baker Ctr for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics Iowa State University
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Christopher Kauffman Department of Computer Science University of Minnesota
Yiannis N. Kaznessis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota
Yannis G. Kevrekidis Department of Chemicial Engineering Princeton University
Abdul Qayyum Masud Khaliq Department of Mathematical Sciences Middle Tennessee State University
Soojeong Kim Department of Mathematics University of Iowa
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Dmitry A. Kondrashov Department of Biological Sciences University of Chicago
Samuel Kou Department of Statistics Harvard University
Dmytro Kozakov Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Krzysztof Kuczera Department of Molecular Biosciences University of Kansas
Christian E. Laing Department of Mathematics, Chemistry New York University
Fumei Lam Department of Computer Science Brown University
Juan Latorre Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Audrey Lee Computer Science Department University of Massachusetts
Christopher J. Lee Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California
Michael Levitt Department of Cell Biology Stanford University
Ronald M. Levy Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers University
Robert Michael Lewis Department of Mathematics College of William and Mary
Anton Leykin Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Timothy Lezon Department of Computational Biology University of Pittsburgh
Florence J. Lin Department of Mathematics University of Southern California
Andy Lorenz Department of Biology Boston College
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Christopher Michael Maloney Department of Computer Science Brown University
Yi Mao Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Kenneth C. Millett Department of Mathematics University of California
Julie C. Mitchell Departments of Mathematics and Biochemistry University of Wisconsin
Alejandro Morales Valencia Department of Computational Sciences University of Guadalajara
Antonio Mucherino Departimento di Matematica Seconda Università di Napoli
Chitra Narayanan Department of Biochemistry Rutgers University
Junalyn Navarra-Madsen Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Texas Woman's University
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Duane Q. Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Charles W. O'Donnell Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Massachusetts Institute of Technology
José Nelson Onuchic Department of Physics University of California, San Diego
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Sefika Banu Ozkan Department of Physics Arizona State University
Sanghyun Park Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory
Ioannis Paschalidis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,and Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) Boston University
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jed W. Pitera Almaden Research Center IBM Research Division
Andrea Pugliese Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Trento
Hong Qian Department of Applied Mathematics University of Washington
Terrance Quinn Department of Mathematical Sciences Middle Tennessee State University
Andrew J. Rader Physics Department Indiana University-Purdue University
Subramanian Ramamoorthy School of Informatics University of Edinburgh
Rahul Ravindrudu Department of Computer Science Iowa State University
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Stephane Redon Inovallée INRIA Rhône-Alpes
Shantanu Roy Institute of Physics Universität Basel
Anchanee Sangcharoen Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics Mahidol University
Jeffery G. Saven Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania
Deena Schmidt Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tamara Schmidt-Hegge   University of Minnesota
Brigitte Servatius Department of Mathematics Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Yang Shen Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University
Carlos L. Simmerling Department of Chemistry SUNY
Zachariah Sinkala Department of Mathematical Sciences Middle Tennessee State University
Robert D. Skeel Department of Computer Science Purdue University
Carlos Sosa Supercomputing Institute University of Minnesota
Andrew M. Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Ileana Streinu Department of Computer Science Smith College
Weitao Sun Department of Computer Science New Mexico State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
William Swope Almaden Research Center IBM
Michael Tomasini   Rutgers University
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
George Vacek Department of Life and Materials Sciences Hewlett Packard
Sandor Vajda Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University
Jérôme Waldispühl Applied Mathematics & CSAIL Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jin Wang Department of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics SUNY
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Guowei Wei Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Thomas Weikl Department of Theory and Bio-Systems Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces
Lauren Wickstrom Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology SUNY
Sebastian Will Institute of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Di Wu Department of Mathematics Western Kentucky University
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Jiaan Yang   MicrotechNano
Sichun Yang Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago
Ya-xiang Yuan Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing Chinese Academy of Sciences
Adam Zemla Computing Applications & Research, BACE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hongchao Zhang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Carol L. Ecale Zhou Computing Applications and Research Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Workshop: Organization of Biological Networks
March 3-7, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Steven J. Altschuler Department of Pharmacology UT Southwestern Medical Center
Sigurd B. Angenent Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Ping Ao Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Ahmet Ay Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Daniel J. Bates   University of Minnesota
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Philip Benfey Department of Biology Duke University
Yermal Sujeet Bhat   University of Minnesota
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Enrico Capobianco Bioinformatics Lab Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
Hegang Chen School of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics University of Maryland at Baltimore
Jie Chen Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Missouri
John Chen Department of Mathematics and Statistics Bowling Green State University
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Gaudenz Danuser Department of Cell Biology Scripps Research Institute
Peter N. Devreotes School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
Glenn Edwards Department of Physics Duke University
Walid Fakhouri Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Michigan State University
Daniel S. Fisher Applied Physics Department Stanford University
Azamed Yehuala Gezahagne Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Byron Goldstein Department of Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jason E. Gower   University of Minnesota
H. Christian Gromoll Department of Mathematics University of Virginia School of Medicine
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Jeff Hasty Bioengineering Department University of California, San Diego
Milena Hering   University of Minnesota
Franziska Babette Hinkelmann Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Alexander Hoffmann Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego
Valerie Marie Hower Department of Cancer Biology Wake Forest Medical School
Wilhelm Huisinga Hamilton Institute National University of Ireland, Maynooth
David Isaacson Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Kevin Janes Department of Cell Biology Harvard Medical School
Imre M. Jánosi Department of Physics of Complex Systems Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Abdul Salam Jarrah Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Li Jun Microbiology University of Minnesota
Jeff Kearns Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, San Diego
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Markus Kollmann Institute of Theoretical Biology Humboldt-Universität
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Chin-Jen Ku Department of Pharmacology UT Southwestern Medical Center
David Largaespada Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota
Juan Latorre Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Reinhard Laubenbacher Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Christopher J. Lee Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles
Anton Leykin   University of Minnesota
Paul Loriaux   University of California, San Diego
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati   University of Minnesota
Yi Mao Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
M. David Marks Department of Plant Biology University of Minnesota
Elisabetta Marras Bioinformatics Department CRS4 Bioinformatics Laboratory,
Wallace Marshall Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics University of California, San Francisco
Ana Margarida Martins Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
George Michailidis Department of Statistics University of Michigan
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Joachim Mueller Department of Physics University of Minnesota
Arcady Mushegian   Stowers Institute
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Amir Niknejad Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Antonis Papachristodoulou Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mary Porter Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota
Olivier Pourquié   Stowers Institute
Ashok Prasad Chemical Engineering Department Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vito Quaranta Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University
Mahalingam Ramkumar Computer Science Department Mississippi State University
Rama Ranganathan   UT Southwestern Medical Center
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Brandon Razooky Department of Biochemistry University of California, San Diego
Timothy Charles Reluga Department of Mathematics Pennsylvania State University
Dipen Sanguvdekes Department of Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota
Deena Schmidt   University of Minnesota
Gaukhar Shaikhova Department of Mathematics and Information Technology The L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Danying Shao Center for Theoretical Biological Physics University of California, San Diego
Andrey Shilnikov Department of Mathematics and Statistics Georgia State University
Ali Shojaie Department of Statistics University of Michigan
Dinesh Kumar Singh Green Centre for Systems Biology UT Southwestern Medical Center
Kim Sneppen Center for Models of Life University of Copenhagen
Eduardo D. Sontag Department of Mathematics Rutgers University
Andrew M. Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Victoria Anne Stokes School of Biology University of St. Andrews
Gürol Süel Department of Pharmacology UT Southwestern Medical Center
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Peter Swain Department of Physiology McGill University
Lev S. Tsimring Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California, San Diego
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Jin Wang Department of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics SUNY
Yanqin Wang Department of Pharmacology UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yu-Ping Wang Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Missouri
Zhian Wang IMA University of Minnesota
Hans Weinberger School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Leor Weinberger Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, San Diego
H. Steven Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ruth J. Williams Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego
Lani Wu Department of Pharmacology UT Southwestern Medical Center
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Sichun Yang Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Chicago
Yingfei Yi School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology
Changhe Yuan Department of Computer Science and Engineering Mississippi State University
Gao Zhang Department of Bioengineering University of Pennsylvania
Hongchao Zhang   University of Minnesota
Linghai Zhang Department of Mathematics Lehigh University

Tutorial: Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology
April 17-18, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Claudio Altafini Department of Functional Analysis and Applications International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Daniel J. Bates   University of Minnesota
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yermal Sujeet Bhat   University of Minnesota
Sudin Bhattacharya Computational Biology Department The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Don Button Marine Science/Biochemistry University of Alaska
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John R. Cannon Mathematics Department University of Central Florida
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Kequan Ding   Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peng Feng Department of Mathematics Florida Gulf Coast University
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Daniel Forger Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Jason E. Gower   University of Minnesota
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Milena Hering   University of Minnesota
Franziska Babette Hinkelmann Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Fumiaki Katagiri Plant Biology University of Minnesota
Varunyu Khamviwith   University of Minnesota
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Juan Latorre   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Anton Leykin   University of Minnesota
James Lu Department of Inverse Problems Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati   University of Minnesota
Suping Lyu Materials and Biosciences Center Medtronic
Ezio Marchi Department of Mathematics Instituto de Matemática Aplicada
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Alejandro Morales Valencia Department of Computational Sciences University of Guadalajara
Jeff Morgan Department of Mathematics University of Houston
Theoden Netoff Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Isamu Ohnishi Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences Hiroshima University
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Mary Porter Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Beatrice M. Riviere Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Leonid Rubchinsky Department of Mathematical Sciences Indiana University-Purdue University
Deena Schmidt   University of Minnesota
Gaukhar Shaikhova Department of Mathematics and Information Technology The L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Ali Shojaie Department of Statistics University of Michigan
Andrew M. Stein IMA University of Minnesota
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John J. Tyson Department of Biology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Haiyan Wang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Zhian Wang IMA University of Minnesota
Chris Warren BME University of Minnesota
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Richard Yamada Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Yuncheng You Department of Mathematics University of South Florida
Hongchao Zhang   University of Minnesota

Workshop: Design Principles in Biological Systems
April 21-25, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Pranav Agarwal Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota
Tanuj Aggarwal Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota
Claudio Altafini Department of Functional Analysis and Applications International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Anand R. Asthagiri Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department California Institute of Technology
Bassam Bamieh Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara
Sankar Basu Department of Engineering National Science Foundation
Daniel J. Bates   University of Minnesota
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert C. Berwick Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Prateek Bhansali Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota
Yermal Sujeet Bhat   University of Minnesota
Sudin Bhattacharya Computational Biology Department The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
Victor Bloomfield Department of Biochemistry University of Minnesota
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Hans C. Breiter MD Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
John R. Cannon Mathematics Department University of Central Florida
James A. Carlson   Clay Mathematics Institute
Dmitri Chklovskii   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Yung-Sze Choi Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut
Sean P Corum Department of Physics University of Minnesota
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Robert Cummins Department of Philosophy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Debopriya Das Life Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tim Denison Department of Neuromodulation Medtronic
David L. Dill Department of Computer Science Stanford University
Kequan Ding   Chinese Academy of Sciences
John C. Doyle Department of Control and Dynamical Systems California Institute of Technology
Geir Dullerud Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hana El-Samad Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics University of California, San Francisco
Gurkan Erdogan Mechanical Engineering Department University of Minnesota
Haitao Fan Department of Mathematics Georgetown University
W. Tecumseh Fitch School of Psychology University of St. Andrews
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Daniel Forger Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Melissa K. Gardner Biomedical Engineering Department University of Minnesota
Tryphon T. Georgiou Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota
Jason E. Gower   University of Minnesota
Chenjie Gu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota
Robert Guy Department of Mathematics University of California, Davis
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Milena Hering   University of Minnesota
Franziska Babette Hinkelmann Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Craig P. Hunter Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Imre M. Jánosi Department of Physics of Complex Systems Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Mihailo Jovanovic Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota
Mustafa H. Khammash Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara
Varunyu Khamviwith   University of Minnesota
David Kleinfeld Department of Physics University of California, San Diego
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Juan Latorre   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Reinhard Laubenbacher Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Anton Leykin   University of Minnesota
Patrick D Lincoln Computer Science Laboratory SRI International
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati   University of Minnesota
Oluwole Daniel Makinde Department of Applied Mathematics University of Limpopo
Yi Mao Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Ezio Marchi Department of Mathematics Instituto de Matemática Aplicada
Curt McNamara   Logic Product Development
George Michailidis Department of Statistics University of Michigan
Ezra Miller School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Partha P. Mitra   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alejandro Morales Valencia Department of Computational Sciences University of Guadalajara
Richard M. Murray Department of Control and Dynamical Systems California Institute of Technology
Chris J. Myers Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Utah
Christopher R. Myers Cornell Theory Center Cornell University
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Isamu Ohnishi Department of Mathematical and Life Sciences Hiroshima University
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Antonis Papachristodoulou Department of Engineering Science University of Oxford
Donald W. Pfaff   Rockefeller University
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Jenny Santoso Department of Mathematics IBM Deutschland GmbH
Vishal Saraswat School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Michael A. Savageau Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Microbiology Graduate Group University of California, Davis
Jeffery G. Saven Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania
Deena Schmidt   University of Minnesota
Peter H. Schwartz   Indiana University Center for Bioethics and Indiana University School of Medicine
Hullas Sehcal Department of Electrical Engineering University of Minnesota
Anirvan Sengupta Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers University
Gaukhar Shaikhova Department of Mathematics and Information Technology The L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Lei Shi Department of Chemistry University of Minnesota
Eduardo D. Sontag Department of Mathematics Rutgers University
Andrew M. Stein IMA University of Minnesota
De Witt L. Sumners Department of Mathematics Florida State University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Dan Valente   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Glenn Vinnicombe Department of Engineering University of Cambridge
Haibin Wang   Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Haiyan Wang Department of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Computing Arizona State University
Jin Wang Department of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics SUNY
Zhian Wang IMA University of Minnesota
Kelly Wei Department of Neuromodulation Medtronic
Hans Weinberger School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Richard Yamada Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Joung-Hahn Yoon   Seoul National University
Hongchao Zhang   University of Minnesota

"Hot Topics" Workshop: Stochastic Models for Intracellular Reaction Networks
May 11-13, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Claudio Altafini Department of Functional Analysis and Applications International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS)
David F. Anderson Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Ping Ao Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yermal Sujeet Bhat   University of Minnesota
Lisa Bishop Department of Applied Mathematics University of Washington
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Maury Bramson School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Mónica F. Bugallo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering SUNY
Don Button Marine Science/Biochemistry University of Alaska
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Yang Cao Department of Computer Science Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Teng Chen Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida
Lauren Maressa Childs Center for Applied Mathematics Cornell University
Ioana Cipcigan Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland Baltimore County
Gheorghe Craciun Department of Mathematics and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry University of Wisconsin
Anilkumar Devarapu   University of Louisville
Robert DeVille Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ton Dieker Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM
Kequan Ding   Chinese Academy of Sciences
Petar M. Djuric Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering SUNY
Walid Fakhouri Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Michigan State University
Sergei Fedotov School of Mathematics University of Manchester
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
John Fricks Department of Statistics Pennsylvania State University
Arnab Ganguly Mathematics Department University of Wisconsin
Peter W. Glynn Department of Management Science and Engineering Stanford University
Paula Grajdeanu Mathematical Biosciences Institute Ohio State University
Peter J. Haas   IBM Research Division
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Adam Miklos Halasz Department of Mechanical Engineering/GRASP Lab University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Hill Department of Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota
Hye-Won Kang Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Yiannis N. Kaznessis Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota
Kyung Hyuk Kim Department of Bioengineering University of Washington
Dmitry A. Kondrashov Department of Biological Sciences University of Chicago
Samuel Kou Department of Statistics Harvard University
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thomas G. Kurtz Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Wisconsin
Yury A. Kutoyants Laboratoire de Statistique et Processus Université du Maine
Yueheng Lan Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara
Chang Hyeong Lee Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
James C. Liao Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California, Los Angeles
Di Liu Department of Mathematics Michigan State University
Hailiang Liu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
M. David Marks Department of Plant Biology University of Minnesota
Scott McKinley Mathematics Department Duke University
Bence Melykuti Department of Statistics University of Oxford
Vicenc Mendez Department of Physics Autonomous University of Barcelona
Hitesh Mistry Department of Mathematics University of Dundee
Michael Monine Theoretical Biology & Biophysics, Center for Nonlinear Studies Los Alamos National Laboratory
Ambarish Nag Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Department Los Alamos National Laboratory
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Johan Paulsson Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School
Lea Popovic Department of Mathematics and Statistics Concordia University
Muruhan Rathinam Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland Baltimore County
Michael C. Reed Department of Mathematics Duke University
Grzegorz A. Rempala Department of Mathematics University of Louisville
Alexander Roitershtein Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Howard Salis   University of California, San Francisco
Sebastian Ambrose Sandersius Department of Physics Arizona State University
Deena Schmidt   University of Minnesota
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Vassilios Sotiropoulos Chemical Eningeering and Material Science University of Minnesota
Rishi Srivastava Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin
David Tello Department of Mathematics and Statistics Arizona State University
Lev S. Tsimring Institute for Nonlinear Science University of California, San Diego
Melissa Vellela Department of Applied Mathematics University of Washington
Jorge Vinals Department of Physics McGill University
Jin Wang Department of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics SUNY
Darren James Wilkinson School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Ruth J. Williams Department of Mathematics University of California, San Diego
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Richard Yamada Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
John Yin Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin
Zhigang Zhang Department of Mathematics University of Houston

Workshop: Quantitative Approaches to Cell Motility and Chemotaxis
May 27-30, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Jonathan B. Alberts Center for Cell Dynamics University of Washington
Douglas N. Arnold School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Paul J. Atzberger Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel J. Bates   University of Minnesota
Banu Baydil Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Yermal Sujeet Bhat   University of Minnesota
Tracy Bibelnieks Department of Mathematics Augsburg College
Khalid Boushaba Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Dennis Bray Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Hannah Callender Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Yang Cao Department of Computer Science Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Anders E. Carlsson Department of Physics Washington University
Gregory S. Chirikjian Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Yung-Sze Choi Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut
Philippe Cluzel Center for Integrative Sciences Building University of Chicago
John S. Condeelis Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ludovica Cecilia Cotta-Ramusino Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Gaudenz Danuser Department of Cell Biology Scripps Research Institute
Lance Davidson Department of Bioengineering University of Pittsburgh
Adriana Dawes Center for Cell Dynamics University of Washington
Micah Dembo Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University
Aleksey Demtchouk BMEN University of Minnesota
Rich Dickinson Chemical Engineering Department University of Florida
Kequan Ding   Chinese Academy of Sciences
Leah Edelstein-Keshet Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia
Martin Falcke Department of Theoretical Physics Hahn-Meitner-Institut für Kernforschung (Nuclear Research) Berlin GmbH
Sergei Fedotov School of Mathematics University of Manchester
Daniel Fletcher   University of California, Berkeley
Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering Princeton University
Henrik Flyvbjerg Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology Technical University of Denmark
Margaret Gardel   University of Chicago
Melissa K. Gardner Biomedical Engineering Department University of Minnesota
Nir Shachna Gov Chemical Physics Department Weizmann Institute of Science
Jason E. Gower   University of Minnesota
Robert Guy Department of Mathematics University of California, Davis
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Mark Harris Department of Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University
Dirk Hartmann Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Thomas Hays Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development University of Minnesota
Gerald L. Hazelbauer Department of Biochemistry University of Missouri
David Heine   Corning
Milena Hering   University of Minnesota
Peter Hinow Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Rick Horwitz Department of Cell Biology University of Virginia
Martin Howard   John Innes Centre
Bo Hu Department of Physics Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD
DiAnna Lynn Hynds Department of Biology Texas Woman's University
Pablo A. Iglesias Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Ken Jacobson Cell and Developmental Biology Department University of North Carolina
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Imre M. Jánosi Department of Physics of Complex Systems Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Junhwan Jeon   Vanderbilt University
Tiefeng Jiang Department of Statistics University of Minnesota
Eric Kim   Vanderbilt University
Debra Knisley Department of Mathematics East Tennessee State University
Michael M. Kozlov Sackler Faculty of Medicine Tel Aviv University
Peter R. Kramer Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Daniel Kroll Department of Physics North Dakota State University
Lorene Lanier Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota
Juan Latorre   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Juliet Lee Department of Molecular & Cell Biology University of Connecticut
Pilhwa Lee Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado
Anton Leykin   University of Minnesota
Karen Lipkow Department of Biochemistry & Cambridge Systems Biology Centre University of Cambridge
Wolfgang Losert Physics IPST and IREAP University of Maryland
Roger Lui Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Laura Lurati   University of Minnesota
Dionisios Margetis Department of Mathematics University of Maryland
Bonnie Marsick Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota
Vicenc Mendez Department of Physics Autonomous University of Barcelona
Tobias Meyer Chemical and Systems Biology Stanford University
Paul Milewski Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Alex Mogilner Mathematics and Neurobiology Department University of California, Davis
Denise Montell Biological Chemistry Department Johns Hopkins University
Yoichiro Mori Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia
Timothy Newman Department of Physics Arizona State University
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
David J. Odde Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
James Oliver Mathematical Institute University of Oxford
Dietmar Bernhard Ölz Wolfgang Pauli Institute (Vienna) Universität Wien
Hans G. Othmer Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
John Sandy Parkinson Department of Biology University of Utah
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan Popko Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota
Mary Porter Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota
Alka A. Potdar Department of Chemical Engineering Vanderbilt University
Aravind R. Rammohan Department of Modeling and Simulation Corning
Chris Rao Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Erin Rericha Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics University of Maryland
Murti Salapaka Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Minnesota
Sebastian Ambrose Sandersius Department of Physics Arizona State University
Jeffery G. Saven Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania
Christian Schmeiser Fakultaet fuer Mathematik Universität Wien
Deena Schmidt   University of Minnesota
Casey Schneider-Mizell Department of Physics University of Michigan
Sven A. Sewitz Department of Chemistry University of Cambridge
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Shagi-Di Shih Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Julie Simons Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Andrew M. Stein Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Magdalena Stolarska Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Benjamin L. Stottrup Department of Physics Augsburg College
Sean Sun Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Vladimir Sverak School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Tatyana Svitkina Department of Biology University of Pennsylvania
Csilla Szabo Department of Mathematical Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Julie A. Theriot Department of Biochemistry Stanford University
Marcus John Tindall Mathematical Institute University of Oxford
Mahesh Tirumkudulu Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
Margaret A Titus Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development University of Minnesota
Yuhai Tu Physical Sciences Department IBM
Erkan Tüzel Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
K.V. Venkatesh Department of Chemical Engineering and School of Bioscience and Bioengineering Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
Rajitha Vuppula Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay
Jin Wang Department of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Mathematics SUNY
Yu-li Wang   University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester Campus
Zhian Wang Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota
Alissa Weaver Department of Cancer Biology Vanderbilt University
Cornelius J. Weijer Cell and Developmental Biology Department University of Dundee
Hans Weinberger School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Charles Wolgemuth Department of Cell Biology University of Connecticut Health Center
Zhijun Wu Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Yuan Xiong Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Chuan Xue Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Richard Yamada Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Hongchao Zhang   University of Minnesota
Shan Zhao Department of Mathematics University of Alabama
Xiaoming Zheng Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

New Directions Short Course: Mathematical Neuroscience
June 16 - 27, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Lorna Saldua Almocera Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division University of the Philippines, Cebu College
Christoph Borgers Department of Mathematics Tufts University
Adela Nicoleta Comanici Institute of Comparative Medicine University of Glasgow
Steven J. Cox Computational and Applied Mathematics Rice University
Robert DeVille Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brent Doiron Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Srabasti Dutta Department of Mathematics College of Saint Elizabeth
G. Bard Ermentrout Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Jose D. Flores Department of Mathematics University of South Dakota
Winston Garira Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics University of Venda for Science and Technology
Esfandiar Haghverdi School of Informatics Indiana University
Song-Hwa Kwon Department of Mathematics Seoul National University
Namyong Lee Department of Mathematics Minnesota State University
Maria Leite Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Gregory Lyng Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Alexandre L. Madureira Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica
Hil Meijer Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Universiteit Twente
Ken Miller Center for Theoretical Neuroscience Columbia University
Rennie Mirollo Department of Mathematics Boston College
Theoden Netoff Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Minnesota
Duane Nykamp School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Norma Leticia Ortiz Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Virginia Commonwealth University
Bobby Philip Computer and Computational Sciences Division Los Alamos National Laboratory
Angela Slavova Popivanova Department of Mathematical Physics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Zoi Rapti Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A. David Redish Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota
David Kenneth Rollins Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida
Jonathan E. Rubin Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Liejune Shiau Department of Mathematics University of Houston-Clear Lake
Patrick Daniel Shipman Department of Mathematics University of Maryland
Allan Struthers Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Je-Chiang Tsai Department of Mathematics National Chung Cheng University
Bixiang Wang Department of Mathematics New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech)
Kelly Wei Department of Neuromodulation Medtronic
Xuming Xie Department of Mathematics Morgan State University

2008 IMA PI Summer Program for Graduate Students:
Linear Algebra and Applications
Iowa State University
June 30-July 25, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Mary Allison Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Edgardo Alvarez Department of Mathematics University of Puerto Rico
Ozgur Hakan Aydogmus Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Viviana Anllely Beltran Ballesteros Department of Mathematics University of Puerto Rico
Elizabeth Bodine Department of Mathematics Washington State University
George Martin Fell Brown Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Feng Chen Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Fritz Colonius Institut für Mathematik Universität Augsburg
Mehmet Dagli Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Yilin Dai Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Luz Maria DeAlba Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Drake University
Joyati Debnath Department of Mathematics Winona State University
Laura Leigh DeLoss Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Rafael Del Valle-Vega Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Puerto Rico
Kenneth R. Driessel Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Shurong Fang Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Wilson Florero Department of Mathematics San Jose State University
Qi Gan Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Zheng Gan Department of Mathematics Rice University
Colin Garnett Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Hwa-Long Gau Department of Mathematics National Central University
Ali Godjali Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin
Jason Grout Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Irvin R. Hentzel Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Leslie Hogben Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Sukjung Hwang Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Bokhee Im Department of Mathematics Chonnam National University
Yanfei Jing School of Applied Mathematics University of Science and Technology of China
Hana Kim Department of Mathematics Sungkyunkwan University
In-Jae Kim Department of Mathematics and Statistics Minnesota State University
Ji Hee Kim Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Wolfgang Kliemann Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic Department of Mathematics Western Michigan University
Chi-Kwong Li Department of Mathematics College of William and Mary
Nianpeng Li Department of Mathematics Howard University
Roy Xuhua Liu Department of Mathematics and Statistics Auburn University
Tracy McKay Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Gregory Steven McWhirter Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Rana Mikkelson Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Reshmi Nair Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Fernando Piñero Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Puerto Rico
Yiu Tung Poon Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Olga Pryporova Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Lingyun Qiu Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Paul E. Sacks Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Panu Sam-ang Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Kendrick Laterrell Savage Department of Mathematics Mississippi State University
Bryan L. Shader Department of Mathematics University of Wyoming
Qiling Shi Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida
Jason Smith Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Nung-Sing Sze Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut
Shuguang Tan Department of Mathematics University of Florida
Hector Torres Department of Mathematics University of Puerto Rico
Ryan Daniel Walker Department of Mathematics University of Kentucky
Amy Wangsness Department of Mathematics Fitchburg State College
David S. Watkins Department of Mathematics Washington State University
Jeremy Maurer Watt Department of Mathematics Indiana University
Erik Westlund Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Qiliang Wu Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Chao Zhong Department of Mathematics Michigan Technological University

2008 Summer Program: Geometrical Singularities and Singular Geometries
July 14-25, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Hillel Aharoni Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University
José Bico PMMH École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
Bjorn Birnir Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
Laurent Boué Department of Laboratoire de Physique Statistique École Normale Supérieure
Justin C. Burton Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
Maria-Carme T. Calderer School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Stephen Childress Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University
Christophe Clanet   École Polytechnique
Paul Clavin Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Équilibre UMR CNRS-Universites d'Aix-Marseille I&II
Itai Cohen Department of Physics Cornell University
Peter Constantin Department of Mathematics University of Chicago
Robert Deegan Department of Physics University of Michigan
Mark Dennis Physics Department University of Bristol
Efi Efrati Racah Institute of Physics Hebrew University
Jens Eggers School of Mathematics University of Bristol
Marco Antonio Fontelos Departamento de Matemáticas Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Gilles Andre Francfort Institut Galilee Université de Paris XIII (Paris-Nord)
Stephan Gekle Physics of Fluids Department Universiteit Twente
Walter Goldburg Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pittsburgh
Robert Gulliver School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Evan Hohlfeld Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley
Anette (Peko) Hosoi Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mee Seong Im Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard D. James Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Sookyung Joo Department of Applied Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel D. Joseph Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics University of Minnesota
Christophe Josserand Institut Jean Le Rond D'Alembert Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)
Leo Kadanoff James Franck Institute University of Chicago
Randall D. Kamien Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania
Lami Kim Department of Mathematical Sciences Seoul National University
David Kinderlehrer Department of Mathematics Carnegie Mellon University
Maciek Dominik Korzec   Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
Arshad Kudrolli Physics Department Clark University
Satish Kumar Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of Minnesota
Robert B. Kusner Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Massachusetts
Norman Lebovitz Department of Mathematics University of Chicago
Eun Joo Lee Department of Mathematical Sciences Seoul National University
Chun-Chi Lin Department of Mathematics National Taiwan Normal University
John Lister Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge
Yang Liu Department of Mathematics University of Georgia
Kaspar Andreas Loeffel Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fernando Lund Physics Department University of Chile
L. Mahadevan Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard University
Michal Mlejnek Department of Modeling and Simulation Corning
Carl Modes Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Pennsylvania
David Morrissey Mathematics and Physics Department University of Minnesota
Andreas Münch School of Mathematical Sciences University of Nottingham
Sidney Nagel Department of Physics University of Chicago
David R. Nelson Department of Physics Harvard University
Jinhae Park Department of Mathematics Purdue University
Thomas J. Pence Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University
Leonid Pismen Department of Chemicial Engineering Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Trevor Potter   University of California, Berkeley
Itamar Procaccia Department of Chemical Physics Weizmann Institute of Science
David Quéré Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI)
Eric J. Rawdon Department of Mathematics University of St. Thomas
Michael Renardy Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Alejandro Ribeiro Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota
Sergio Rica Laboratoire de Physique Statistique Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Leif Gibbens Ristroph Department of Physics Cornell University
Fadil Santosa School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
John R. Savage Department of Physics Cornell University
David Schaeffer Department of Mathematics Duke University
Laura Elizabeth Schmidt Department of Physics University of Chicago
Robert Ditlow Schroll Center for Integrative Science University of Chicago
George R Sell School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Shaun Sellers Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Washington University
Chehrzad Shakiban Institute of Mathematics and its Application University of Minnesota
Michael Shearer Department of Mathematics North Carolina State University
Michael Siegel Department of Mathematical Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology
Jey Sivaloganathan Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath
Dejan Slepcev Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University
Scott J. Spector Department of Mathematics Southern Illinois University
Daniel Spirn School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Paul H. Steen Department of Chemicial Engineering Cornell University
Peter Taborek Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California, Irvine
Saleh A. Tanveer Department of Mathematics Ohio State University
Sigurdur Thoroddsen Department of Mechanical Engineering National University of Singapore
Konstantin Turitsyn James Franck Institute University of Chicago
Henrik Bernhard van Lengerich School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Cornell University
Emmanuel Villermaux   IRPHE - Institut de Recherche sur les Phénoménes Hors Équilibre
Vincenzo Vitelli Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Pennsylvania
Barbara Wagner Thermodynamic Modeling and Analysis of Phase Transitions Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
Jon Wilkening Mathematics Department University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Peter Witelski Department of Mathematics Duke University
Thomas Witten James Franck Institute University of Chicago
Giovanni Zanzotto DMMMSA Università di Padova
Wendy W. Zhang James Franck Institute University of Chicago

Mathematical Modeling in Industry XII
A Workshop for Graduate Students
August 6-15, 2008
Name Department Affiliation
Kapil Ahuja Department of Mathematics Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Richard Barnard Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Christopher Bemis   Whitebox Advisors
Olus N. Boratav Corning
Richard J. Braun Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Delaware
Lyrial Marie Chism Department of Mathematics University of Mississippi
Sohhyun Chung Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Holly Clark Department of Mathematics University of Tennessee
Yilin Dai Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Christina Dekany Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Southern Methodist University
Yuan Dong Department of Mathematical Sciences Northern Illinois University
Yutheeka Gadhyan Department of Mathematics University of Houston
Simon Gemmrich Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University
Jerome Goddard II Department of Mathematics and Statistics Mississippi State University
Thomas Grandine Mathematics and Computing Technology Boeing
J. Michael Gray   Medtronic
Huaiying Gu Department of Mathematics University of Michigan
Shiyuan Gu Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University
Xiaoqing He School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Junming Huang Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Liquan Huang Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Delaware
Ashraf Ibrahim Department of Mathematics Texas A & M University
Christopher Jones Department of Mathematics University of Pittsburgh
Anthony José Kearsley Mathematical and Computational Science Division National Institute of Standards and Technology
Taebeom Kim Department of Mathematics University of Houston
Jill Klentzman Department of Mathematics Southern Methodist University
Dias Kurmashev Department of Mathematics University of Memphis
Jiyung Lois Kwon Department of Mathematics Washington State University
Xingjie Li Department of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Youzuo Lin Department of Mathematics and Statistics Arizona State University
Zhongyi Nie Department of Mathematics University of Kentucky
Mauricio Osorio Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Cincinnati
Gregory Richards   Kent State University
Fadil Santosa School of Mathematics University of Minnesota
Qiling Shi Department of Mathematics University of Central Florida
Robert Shimpa   Medtronic
Yan Shu School of Mathematics Georgia Institute of Technology
Lin Tong Department of Mathematics Iowa State University
Jon Van Laarhoven Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences University of Iowa
Jiabin Wang Department of Statistics Rutgers University
Jia Wei Department of Mathematics Texas A & M University
Chai Wah Wu Thomas J. Watson Research Center IBM
Mohammad Zaki Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Guangjin Zhong Department of Mathematical Sciences Michigan Technological University
Qinghua Zhu Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Delaware

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