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Mathematical Biology Journal Club

Spring 2004 semester
Wednesdays at 4:15pm, LCB 4th floor

Wednesday
January 28

JC I: Amber Smith presenting

D. Ludwig, D. D. Jones, C. S. Holling
"Qualitative analysis of insect outbreak systems: The spruce budworm and forest"
Journal of Animal Ecology, Vol. 47, No. 1. (Feb., 1978), pp. 315-332.
(Jstor)


Wednesday
February 4

JC II: Bill Koppelman presenting

Sylvain Gandon, Margaret J. MacKinnon, Sean Nee & Andrew F. Read
"Imperfect vaccines and the evolution of pathogen virulence"
Nature, Vol. 414 (13 December 2001), pp. 751-756.
(Nature Online)


Wednesday
February 11

JC I: Ben Sukow presenting

A. M. Turing, F.R.S.
"The chemical basis of morphogenesis"
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 237, No. 641 (14 August 1952), pp. 37-72.
(Jstor)


Wednesday
February 18

JC II: John Zobitz presenting

Dennis Baldocchi and Tilden Meyers
"On Using eco-physiological, micometerorological and biogeochemical theory to evaluate carbon dioxide, water vapor and trace gas fluxes over vegetation: a perspective"
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 90 (1998), pp. 1-25.


Wednesday
February 25

JC I: Lyubima Simeonova presenting

David C. Dobson and Fadil Santosa
"Optimal localization of eigenfunctions in an inhomogeneous medium"
In submission.


Wednesday
March 3

JC II: Will Nesse presenting

P. C. Fife and J. B. McLeod
"The approach of solutions on nonlinear diffusion equations to traveling front solutions"
Archive for rational mechanics and analysis, Vol. 65, pp. 335-361.


Monday
March 8

JC I: Nessy Tania presenting

Balth. van der Pol and J. van der Mark
"The heartbeat considered as a relaxation oscillation, and an electrical model of the heart"
Phil. Mag. Suppl., Vol. 6, pp. 763-775.


Wednesday
March 24

JC II: Aaron McDonald presenting

Richard Durrett and Simon Levin
"The importance of being discrete (and spatial)"
Theoretical Population Biology, Vol. 46 (1994), pp. 363-394.


Monday
March 29

JC I: Courtney Davis presenting

Mark Kirkpatrick and N. H. Barton
"Evolution of a species' range"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 150 No. 1 (1997), pp. 1-23. (Jstor)


Wednesday
April 7

JC II: Colby Tanner presenting

Hugh P. Possingham
"The distribution and abundance of resources encountered by a forager"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 133 No. 1 (1989), pp. 42-60. (Jstor)


Monday
April 12

JC I: Brendan O'Fallon presenting

R. A. Fisher
"The wave of advance of advantageous genes"
Annals of Eugenics, Vol. 7 (1937), pp. 255-369.


Wednesday
April 21

JC II: Aaron McDonald (discussion leader)

Group discussion on research projects


Monday
April 26

JC I: Katherine Fitzgerald presenting

Robert A. Armstrong and Richard McGehee
"Competitive Exclusion"
The American Naturalist, Vol. 115 No. 2 (1980), pp. 151-170. (Jstor)