School of Mathematics & Digital Technology Center
University of Minnesota
Multiscale Modeling in Biology – The Mathematical and Computational Challenges
Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical Biology
December 1, 2010
3:00pm SEC 204
Abstract
New techniques in cell and molecular biology have produced a better
understanding of cell-level processes that has in turn led to better cell-level
models for problems ranging from biofilm formation to embryonic development and
cancer. However this raises the problem of how to incorporate detailed
descriptions of individual-level behavior, be it at the cell, tissue or organ
level, into population level descriptions. We will illustrate the mathematical
and computational challenges involved with a number of examples ranging
from pattern formation in bacteria to hybrid models for tumor growth, and will
discuss some of the open problems in this area.
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