For further information please contact Professor Xuerong Mao or Dr Andrew Wade.
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Monday 11th June 2012 1000-1700, LT908
2-Day Workshop on Stochastic Modelling in Ecosystems, 11-12 June 2012.
Professor De Michele et al
Abstract
Predicting ecosystems responses under changing environment conditions is one of the major challenges in ecology. It is rendered more complex by the non-linear dynamics which characterise ecosystems and the partially stochastic nature of key drivers. Environmental drivers (including climate, nutrients, fire, and herbivores) change in time and space, sometimes gradually and smoothly, sometimes less gradually, even abruptly. Ecosystems may respond to changes in their environmental drivers in an orderly and continuous way, but they may be quite unresponsive over certain ranges of environmental conditions and then react rapidly with strong changes, or shifts, when conditions approach a critical level or threshold.
It is due to these complex features of Ecosystems, stochastic modelling has become more and more popular, not only because it is useful in the study of ecosystems, but also presents many challenges to mathematical research as well as provides ecologists, biologists and mathematicians with a great opportunity to collaborate together. Although stochastic modelling in ecosystems has been very hot for the past several years, there is a significant gap between ecologists, biologists and mathematicians. This 2-day workshop is to bring researchers (mainly from UK/EU) and their research assistants and students together to promote, encourage, and influence more cooperation, and to bring together various disciplines e.g. ecology, biology, mathematics, engineering, computer science. There will be invited speakers giving 1-hour talks as well as a space of 30-minute talks and a poster section given by research students. There will also be spaces in the programme designed to encourage interaction between the attendees with the aim of promoting further collaborative research work.
Possible invited speakers:
Prof Carlo De Michele, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. (Ecohydrology of arid and semi-arid ecosystems)
Dr Renata Vezzoli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Dr Francesco Accatino, Hannove, Germany. (Modeling humid savannas adding stochasticity to a matrix model)
Dr Pierre Couteron, IRD Montpellier France. (How analyses on remotely sensed images help designing and calibrating models of vegetation patterns dynamics?)
Prof Mathew Williams, University of Edinburgh UK. (Data assimilation approaches for analysing the terrestrial carbon cycle)
Dr Marko Scholze , University of Bristol.
Dr David Alonso, Center for Advanced Studies, The Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Ecologist. (Ecological dynamics and environmental fluctuations: The case of Malaria in an East African highland)
Dr Bob Scholes, The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa,
Dr Alison Gray, Strathclyde University. (SDE SIS Epidemic Models)
Dr Martin Griffiths, University of Essex. (ENSO Prediction and Global Weather Patterns)
Dr Chenggui Yuan, Swansea University, UK. (SDDEs in Population Systems)
Professor J.S. Heslop-Harrison, University of Leicester. (Between biodiversity and crops: needs from stochastic models at the ecosystem scale)
Dr. Minjoo Kim, Glasgow University. (Functional Autoregressive Value-at-Risk)
Dr. H. Yue and Mr D. Lee, Strathclyde University. (Objective and correlated sensitivity analysis of oscillatory biological networks)
Dr. J. Kim, Glasgow University. (Robustness analysis of community structure)
Miss J. Pan, Strathclyde Univ. (Estimation of parameters for the SDE SIS epidemic model)
Further Details of the programme will be available in due course.
Organisers:
Prof. Carlo De Michele, Politecnico di Milano, Milano MI, Italy
Prof. Xuerong Mao, Strathclyde University, Glasgow UK
Registration:
To register, please e-mail Prof Xuerong Mao: x.mao@strath.ac.uk
For the information on how to travel from Glasgow Airport to the Hotel by the Flight Link Bus 500, please see visit: http://personal.strath.ac.uk/x.mao/talks/map_workshop.pdf