NIMBioS 2015 Event Calendar

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NIMBioS 2015 Event Calendar Archive
January 2015
Jan 1	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for New Year's Day.
Jan 7-9	NIMBioS Working Group: Expanding Data Nuggets, 1st meeting
Jan 15-16	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Lymphoid Cells in Acute Inflammation. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Jan 19	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Jan 21-23	NIMBioS Working Group: 'Pretty Darn Good' Control: Extensions of optimal control for ecological systems, 4th meeting
Jan 26-29	NIMBioS Working Group: Migratory Habitat, 2nd meeting
Jan 27	*NIMBioS Seminar. Suzanne O'Regan (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Detecting critical transitions in infectious disease dynamics
February 2015
Feb 10 10:30 a.m. Rm 105	*NIMBioS Special Seminar. Dr. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield (Grice Marine Laboratory, College of Charleston) Topic: Brokedown life cycles: Implications of the haploid-diploid life cycle on macroalgal population genetics
Feb 10 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Seminar. Michael Lynch* (Biology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington) Topic: Mutation, drift and the origin of subcellular features
Feb 11-13	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolution of Institutions, 2nd meeting
Feb 23-25	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Antimicrobial Resistance Intervention, 2nd meeting
Feb 24 Canceled	*NIMBioS Seminar. Caroline Farrior (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Plant traits and the importance of competition among individuals
Feb 25 9 a.m.	*NIMBioS Special Seminar. Julio Ramirez (Division of Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Louisville) Topic: Pneumonia: Clinical & translational research at the University of Louisville
Feb 27 1–5 p.m.	NIMBioS/XSEDE/NICS Tutorial: Using R for HPC
March 2015
Mar 2-4	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Large-scale Modeling of Olfactory Processing Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Mar 10	NIMBioS Seminar. Laurent Excoffier* (Population Genetics CMPG Lab, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Univ. of Bern) Topic: Consequences of spatial expansions on population functional diversity
Mar 11-13	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Neurobiology of Expertise. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Mar 25 Wednesday	*NIMBioS Special Seminar. Kehinde R. Salau, Alliance Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, Univ. of Arizona Topic: Taking a moment to measure networks – A hierarchical approach
Mar 30-Apr 2	NIMBioS Working Group: Vector Movement and Disease, 1st meeting
Mar 31	*NIMBioS Seminar. Xiaopeng Zhao (Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) Topic: Multiscale Modeling of Complex Parasitic Transmission Mechanisms
April 2015
Mar 30-Apr 2	NIMBioS Working Group: Vector Movement and Disease, 1st meeting
Apr 3	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Spring holiday.
Apr 7	*NIMBioS Seminar. Caroline Farrior (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Plant traits and the importance of competition among individuals
Apr 8-10	NIMBioS Working Group: Leptospirosis Modeling, 1st meeting
Apr 8-10	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Information and Entropy in Biological Systems. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Apr 15-17	NIMBioS/SAMSI/ESA Graduate Workshop: Current Issues in Statistical Ecology Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Apr 20-24	NIMBioS Working Group: Climate Proxies, 1st meeting
Apr 21	*NIMBioS Seminar. Mats Gyllenberg, Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of Helsinki Topic: Functional responses and how they evolve by natural selection
May 2015
May 6-9	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolution of Institutions, 3rd meeting
May 11-14	NIMBioS Working Group: Dispersal Biogeography, 1st meeting
May 11-15	NIMBioS Working Group: Biotic Interactions, 4th meeting
May 25	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Memorial Day.
May 26-28	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Malaria-Leishmania Co-infection. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
May 26-29	NIMBioS Working Group: Plant-Soil Feedback Theory, 4th meeting
June 2015
Jun 1-3	NIMBioS Working Group: Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases, 3rd meeting
Jun 1-12	Joint CAMBAM-MBI-NIMBioS Summer School
Jun 3-6	NIMBioS Working Group: Computational Landscape Genomics, 2nd meeting
Jun 8-Jul 31	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Jun 10-12	NIMBioS Working Group: Ecological Network Dynamics, 1st meeting
Jun 15-19	NIMBioS Working Group: DEB Model for Trees, 2nd meeting
Jun 22-25	Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
July 2015
Jun 8-Jul 31	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) at NIMBioS for Undergraduates and Teachers
Jul 3	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Independence Day.
Jul 6-10	Adventures in STEM Camp
Jul 7-9	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Many-cell System Modeling Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Jul 20-22 CANCELED	A BioQUEST Workshop at NIMBioS - Biology by Numbers: Bringing Math to the High School Biology Classroom
Jul 20-23	NIMBioS Working Group: Migratory Habitat, 3rd meeting
Jul 27-28	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Computational Advances in Microbiome Research (CAMR)
Jul 27-31	NIMBioS Working Group: Nonautonomous Systems and Terrestrial C-cycle, 4th meeting
Jul 28 3:30 Rm 206	Special presentation: Matt Kane (Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology, NSF) Topic: Funding Opportunities in Biology at the National Science Foundation Descriptive Flyer
Jul 31 9-12 Rm 206	Summer Research Experiences (SRE) Final Talks
August 2015
Aug 10-15	NIMBioS Tutorial: Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics 2015 Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Aug 25 105 Claxton	*NIMBioS Seminar. Anthony Mezzacappa (Director, Joint Institute for Computational Sciences) Topic: The Joint Institute for Computational Sciences: The Skinny Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
September 2015
Sep 2-4	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Morphological Plant Models Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Sep 7	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Labor Day.
Sep 8	*NIMBioS Seminar. Nels Johnson (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Nonparametric Bayesian functional equivalence models for community data
Sep 14-18	NIMBioS Working Group: Leptospirosis Modeling, 2nd meeting
Sep 16-18	NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Evolution and Warfare Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Sep 22	*NIMBioS Seminar. Elizabeth Bradley (Computer Science, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) Topic: Chaos and control
Sep 28 3:30 Mon	*NIMBioS Seminar. Stuart Pimm (Doris Duke Professor of Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke Univ.) Topic: The laws of biodiversity — and what we do not understand about them
Sep 30-Oct 2	Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013+ Workshop: Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow
October 2015
Sep 30-Oct 2	Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013+ Workshop: Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow
Oct 6	*NIMBioS Seminar. Chuck Price (Plant Biology, Univ. of Western Australia; NIMBioS Sabbatical Fellow) Topic: Flow similarity, stochastic branching, and quarter power scaling in plants
Oct 13	*NIMBioS Seminar. Megan Rúa (NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellow) Topic: Fantastic Fungi! Exploring the ecological and evolutionary forces which shape host-microbe interactions
Oct 20	*NIMBioS Seminar. Quentin Johnson (NIMBioS postdoctoral fellow) Topic: Utilizing computational methods to predict allosteric networks in protein complexes
Oct 22-24	NIMBioS Working Group: Teaching Quantitative Bio, 1st meeting
Oct 26-29	NIMBioS Working Group: Vector Movement and Disease, 2nd meeting
Oct 26-30	NIMBioS Working Group: Evolutionary Approaches to Sustainability, 3rd meeting
Oct 31	SHADES: Sharing Adventures in Engineering and Science - An Interactive Colloquium in Science and Engineering for 6th and 7th Grade Girls and Teachers. Location: NIMBioS
November 2015
Nov 2-3	NIMBioS Advisory Board Meeting
Nov 3	*NIMBioS Seminar. Steven Wise (Mathematics, Univ. of Tennessee) Topic: Some mixture models for tissue growth with applications in spatiotemporal cancer modeling
Nov 3-5	NIMBioS Working Group: Climate Proxies, 2nd meeting
Nov 10	*NIMBioS Seminar. Richard Schugart (Mathematics, Western Kentucky Univ.; NIMBioS Sabbatical Fellow) Topic: Can mathematics heal all wounds?
Nov 16-20	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Molecules-to-Organisms, 1st meeting
Nov 16-20	NIMBioS Working Group: Modeling Organisms-to-Ecosystems, 1st meeting
Nov 21-22	Seventh Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology. Descriptive Flyer (PDF)
Nov 26-27	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Thanksgiving.
December 2015
Dec 1-3	NIMBioS Working Group: Spatial Cell Simulations, 1st meeting
Dec 7-11	NIMBioS Working Group: Ecological Network Dynamics, 2nd meeting
Dec 9-11	NIMBioS Working Group: Cooperation and Cognition, 1st meeting
Dec 14-16	NIMBioS Working Group: Multiscale Vectored Plant Viruses, 1st meeting
Dec 15-17	NIMBioS Working Group: Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases, 4th meeting
Dec 21-25	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Winter holiday.

*NIMBioS Seminars and Teatime Talks are held in Rm. 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments will be served in Room 206 starting 30 min. before seminars.
**NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.