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.

Travelling to the University of Bath This page also has links to maps at the bottom.
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	Optimal decision making with realistic bounds on neuronal activity
	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!

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