Southern
Ontario
Symposium on
Mathematical and
Statistical Methods in
the Life Sciences
A
one-day seminar with talks, posters and networking opportunities.
Topics: applications of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific
Computing
in the Life and Environmental Sciences.
Who should attend:
Faculty, postdocs, grad students and
undergraduate students with interest in biometry or mathematical and
computational biology.
When:
November 12, 2004
Where: OMAF
Building (Ontario
Ministry for Agriculture and Food Headquarter)
Guelph,
ON, 1
Stone Rd W (map
and directions)
Hosted by the Workgroup Biomathematics and
Biostatistics (BioM&S) of the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics, University of Guelph
Scientific Program (schedule tba)
Invited Speakers
Richard
Cook (University of Waterloo)
Ross Cressman
(Wilfried
Laurier University)
Gerarda Darlington
(University
of Guelph)
David Earn (McMaster
University)
Igor Jurisica (Ontario Cancer
Institute)
Lindi Wahl
(University of Western Ontario)
Jianhong Wu
(York University)
Ashton Lecture in Biometrics
Abdel H. El-Shaarawi
(National Water Research Institute,
Burlington,
On)
Editor-in-Chief Environmetrics, co-founder and former president
of the
International Environmetrics Society.
This year's Ashton Lecture is
sponsored by
the Faculty of Environmental Sciences,
Univ. Guelph.
Poster Session
An extended poster session will be held during
the
event. All participants are encouraged to present their research.
Posters
are an ideal vehicle to promote networking. There will be an award for
the
best student poster.
Participation
and Registration:
Everybody with an interest in mathematical
or
statistical methods in life science is invited to attend. There is no
participation
fee. However, in order to allow us to plan the event, please
register here.
Students
and Postdocs can apply for financial support to assist with travel
expenses
(deadline: October 30, 2004).
Note: Since available funds are limited,
funding cannot be guaranteed for all applicants and we might not be
able to cover all travel costs.
The event is supported by:
Office of
Research, Faculty of
Environmental Science
contact: Hermann J Eberl (heberl@uoguelph.ca)
Anna Lawniczak (alawnicz@uoguelph.ca)