Wednesday, July 9

MS68
Mathematical Patterns in Nature

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Royal Palm 3

The interplay between mathematical modeling and experimental measurement is at the basis of the "effectiveness of mathematics" in physics [Wigner (1960) Commun Pure Appl Math 13:1–14]. Could this effectiveness be extended to all natural phenomena? In this minisymposium we will present recent studies, that illustrate how the mathematical modeling of data could give insights into and lead to the discovery and ultimately also control of mechanisms underlying phenomena in meteorology, biochemistry, genetics and neuroscience.

Organizer: Orly Alter
University of Texas at Austin

4:00-4:25 Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations and Hybrid Systems

Peter Constantin, University of Chicago

4:30-4:55 Mathematics Amongst the Biomolecules

Jeremy Gunawardena, Harvard Medical School

5:00-5:25 Mathematical Modeling of DNA Microarray Data: From Discovery of Patterns to Discovery of Molecular Biological Mechanisms

Orly Alter, University of Texas at Austin

5:30-5:55 Life at Low Molecule Number

Terrence Sejnowski, University of California, San Diego; Jay Coggan, Salk Institute for Biological Studies