Regional Meeting on Mathematics, Computation and Biology
University of Bath, 6E 2.1
8 June 2007



General information
The Bath and Bristol area is home to a number of high quality research groups in biology, mathematical and computational biology, biologically-inspired computation, artificial intelligence and robotics. This year, Bath is pleased to host the third meeting of the regional Mathematics, Computation and Biology Network.Map of Campus Note that building 6E is very near the bus stop & the East Car Park. The door is on the steps up to the parade, and 2.1 is just to the right as you come in.
This year's keynote speaker: Kevin Laland
- Talk title: Animal Social Learning: Problems and Solutions
Schedule (Abstracts are here)
This schedue is now set. Any further inquiries for presentation can only be posters. (19)Time |
Speaker |
Title |
8:30-9:15 |
OJ & Crumpets (or
something) 6E 2.1 |
|
9:15-9:30 |
Joanna Bryson |
Welcome |
9:30-10:30 |
Kevin Laland |
Animal Social Learning: Problems and Solutions |
10:30-11:00 |
Catered caffeine,
Munchies |
|
11:00-12:30, 10 minute talks, 5 minute discussion Nick Britton, chair |
Jane White |
Transience and control in ecological systems |
Jim Smith |
Coevolutionary Systems with
Genes & Memes |
|
Joanna L. Parmley | Splicing and Protein Evolution in Mammals | |
Tom O. Richardson | Evaluation in Teaching Ants | |
Dick James |
Famine relief networks in ants | |
12:30-1:30 |
Lunch
(you pay) Claverton Rooms |
|
1:30-3:00 James Marshall, chair |
Jiaxiang Zhang | |
Daniel
Richardson |
Spike Trains and Mutual Information | |
Matt
Jones |
Neuronal correlations, phase-locking and coherence during cognition and disease | |
Andrew Carnell | Obtaining Precise spike trains in Spiking Neural nets | |
Tobias Larsen | Initiation and Termination of Integration in a Decision Process | |
Andy Lulham | Anti-Hebbian learning in the perirhinal cortex may underlie both familiarity discrimination and feature extraction | |
3:00-3:30 |
Catered
caffeine, Munchies |
|
3:30-5:00 Tim Kovacs, chair |
Alwyn Barry |
Using Transposons and Flanking Sequences in Evolutionary Computation |
Loukia Lili | Lyme: From Old-Lyme to Europe: Can we control a possible disease break-out? | |
Elva J H Robinson | ANT FORAGING NETWORKS: MODELLING THE NEGATIVE PHEROMONE | |
Andreas Krause | Local Interactions and Case-Based Decisions: An Exploration of Learning | |
Hagen Lehmann | Social dominance and social organization in macaques | |
Sean Rands | Social foraging and dominance relationships: the effects of socially mediated interference | |
5:00-6:00 |
Wrap-up
(over beverages) Parade Bar |
|
6:45-9:00 |
(optional!) Dinner
(Widcombe, 4 minutes on foot from the train station) |
AV assistant: Andrew Carnell
Other Expected Attendees:
Larry Bull, Tim Kovacs, James Marshall, Nick Britton, Robert Laister, Tim Swift, Victoria Brown, Zoe Thomas, Jan Drugowitsch, Carl O'Dwyer, Rafal Bogacz, Mark Wood, Torbjorn Dahl, Ana Sendova-Franks, Nigel Franks, Steve Cayzer, Martin Reed, Ann Nosseir, Becky Hayward, Chris Tubb (20).Parking Permits
A&N Franks (1). Parking permits have now been posted!Sponsors
We grateful acknowledge support from the following University of Bath departments & research entities:page author: Joanna Bryson
last updated: 7 June 2007