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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Fall 2003 semester
Wednesdays at 4:15pm, LCB 322

Wednesday
September 3

JC II: John Zobitz presenting

Dennis D. Baldocchi, Bruce B. Hicks and Tilden P. Meyers
"Measuring biosphere-atmosphere exchanges of biologically related gases with micrometeorological methods"
Ecology, Vol. 69, No. 5. (October 1988), pp. 1331-1340.
(Jstor)


Wednesday
September 10

JC I: Amber Smith presenting

Roy M. Anderson and Robert M. May
"Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I"
Nature, Vol. 280, No. 2 (August 1979), pp. 361-367.


Wednesday
September 17

JC II: Aaron McDonald presenting

Timothy Killingback and Michael Doebeli
"Spatial evolutionary game theory: Hawks and Doves revisited"
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 263, No. 1374 (1996), pp. 1135-1144.
(Jstor)


Wednesday
September 24

JC I: Nessy Tania presenting

E. M. Purcell
"Life at low Reynolds number"
American Journal of Physics, Vol. 45, No. 1 (1977), pp. 3-11,
with Paul Fife's notes from Lighthill on swimming microorganisms.


Wednesday
October 10

JC I: Courtney Davis presenting

George I. Bell
"Predator-prey equations simulating an immune response"
Mathematical Biosciences, Vol. 16 (1973), pp. 291-314.


Wednesday
October 15

JC II: Bill Koppelman presenting

Charles S. Peskin
"Numerical analysis of blood flow in the heart"
Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 25 (1977), pp. 220-252.
and
J. De Hart, G.W.M. Peters, P.J.G. Schreurs and F.P.T. Baaijens
"A two-dimensional fluid-structure interaction model of the aortic valve"
Journal of Biomechanics, Vol. 33 (2000), pp. 1079-1088.


Wednesday
October 22

JC I: Katherine Fitzgerald presenting

Eric L. Charnov
"Optimal foraging, the Marginal Value Theorem"
Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1976), pp. 129-136.


Wednesday
October 29

JC II: Will Nesse presenting

Paul C. Bressloff
"Traveling waves and pulses in a one-dimensional network of excitable integrate-and-fire neurons"
Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2000), pp. 169-198.
(ejournals)


Wednesday
November 5

JC I: Ben Sukow presenting

J. Nagumo, S. Arimoto and S. Yoshizawa
"An active pulse transmission line simulating nerve axon"
Proceedings of the IRE, Vol. 50 (October 1962), pp. 2061-2070.


Wednesday
April 7

JC II: John Zobitz presenting

Frederick R. Adler
"The balance of terror: An alternative mechanism for competitive trade-offs and its implications for invading species"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 154, No. 5 (November 1999), pp. 497-509.
(AmNat Online)


Wednesday
November 19

JC I: Brendan O'Fallon presenting

Kevin McCann, Alan Hastings and Gary R. Huxel
"Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature"
Nature, Vol. 395, No. 6704 (22 October 1998), pp. 794-798.
(Nature Online)


Wednesday
November 26

JC II: Colby Tanner presenting

Mark Rees and Mark Westoby
"Game-theoretical evolution of seed mass in multi-species ecological models"
Oikos, Vol. 78, No. 1 (1997), pp. 116-126.


Wednesday
December 3

JC I: Lyubima Simeonova presenting

Z. Hashin and S. Shtrikman
"A variational approach to the theory of the effective magnetic permeability of multiphase materials"
Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 33, No. 10 (1962), pp. 3125-3131.



For more information contact:

Tom Robbins, 5-1645
E-mail: robbins@math.utah.edu
or
Nancy Sundell, 5-1637
E-mail: sundell@math.utah.edu