People of PASI 2006 San Salvador, El Salvador

PASI '06: Math Models in Population Dynamics

Participants & Sponsors

Organizing Committee
Lecturers
Additional Presentations
Sponsors

Organizing Committee
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Professor Ricardo Cortez Ricardo Cortez
Associate Professor - Mathematics, Tulane University
Professor Cortez's research is in the area of computational fluid dynamics with applications to biological systems. In particular, he designs, analyzes and applies numerical methods to simulate the swimming motions of microorganisms such as bacteria. Prof. Cortez has delivered several lectures at the University of El Salvador and has funded in part, through an individual grant supplement, the participation of 9 U.S. scientists and students at the 2005 mathematical modeling meeting in El Salvador. Prof. Cortez will oversee the design, organization and balance of the scientific content of the Institute. He will help coordinate all elements of the Institute including recruitment, web page, coordination of the Lecturers and with the host country, logistics of participants, dissemination of the materials, and follow-up activities.

Herbert Medina
Professor - Mathematics, Loyola Marymount University
Professor Medina's research interest centers on functional analysis, harmonic analysis, linear algebra, continued fractions as well as wavelets. Additionally, Prof. Medina enjoys working on projects which aim to increase the participation of historically underrepresented groups in mathematics and the sciences and is cofounder of the REU Summer Institute in Mathematics for Undergraduates held in Humacao, Puerto Rico. Prof. Medina will run and oversee the academic and educational activities to take place at the beginning of the Institute. In addition, he will help coordinate all aspects of the Institute along with Prof. Cortez. This includes making sure that the organization of the various components of the Institute progresses smoothly. Professor Medina also has experience working with students and faculty at the UES as he ran a one-month series of lectures on measure theory in summer 1995. He hopes to publish the lecture notes from that activity, Apuntes de la Teor a de la Medida, within the next two years.

Martin Guerra
Faculty Member - Mathematics, University of El Salvador
Prof. Guerra has a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from the Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados of the Instituto Politecnico Nacional de Mexico, a Masters degree in Mathematics Education from Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain) and has advanced to candidacy in the Ph.D. program in Mathematics Education at the same university. His main research interests are differential equations and dynamical systems. Prof. Guerra has been part of the organizing committee of many mathematics events at the UES in the last several years. Prof. Guerra will oversee all the local arrangements related to the Institute, including the facilities at the university (rooms for the lectures and working sessions, audio/visual equipment, the computer laboratory for the educational activities, participant accommodations, and local transportation). In addition, Prof. Guerra will be in charge of advertisement and selection of local and regional participants through the use of existing communication networks in Central America.

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Lecturers
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Angel Estrella
Associate Professor - Mathematics, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mexico
Research interests include mathematical ecology, differential equations, and mathematical models in biology.

Lisa Fauci
Professor - Mathematics, Tulane University
Research interests include biofluid dynamics simulations, particularly the modeling of swimming motions of agellated organisms and cilia. Prof. Fauci will be the main lecturer and organizer of the Computation and Visualization component of the program.

Reinhard Laubenbacher
Research Professor - Virginia BioInformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
Research interests include development and application of bioinformatics tools using discrete mathematics, dynamical systems theory, and symbolic computation. Prof. Laubenbacher will be the main lecturer on the Mathematical Modeling of Population Dynamics. He will be in charge of delivering two lectures and organizing the rest of this component of the program in cooperation with Prof. Guerra in Central America.

Javier Rojo
Professor - Statistics, Rice University
Research interests include nonparametric statistics, survival analysis and reliability, decision theory, partial orders of probability distributions, extreme events. Prof. Rojo will be the main lecturer for the Data and Statistical Methods component of the Institute. In consultation with the organizers outside the U.S.A., he will select and organize the lectures, working sessions and discussions on this subtopic and will deliver an overview lecture and a topical lecture.

Additional Presentations
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Robert Matlock
Senior Researcher - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
Research interests include mathematical models in biology.

David Salas de Leon
Senior Researcher - Marnie and Environmental Biology, Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi
Research interests include physical oceanography, limnology, and marine sciences.

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