Life sciences

Europe/Paris
IHP

IHP

Description

Life sciences propose various challenging models of interacting units. Examples of units are bacteria in a colony, cells in a multicellular organism, individuals in a community, nodes of a computer network. Since one faces systems with a very large amount of components and because noise is typically a key ingredient, tools and models non-equilibrium statistical mechanics play a central role. The analysis is led both at a microscopic level to follow and analyze the single unit dynamics, and on a large scale where often one deals with PDE models that capture the behavior of coarse grained observables.

This  3-4 day workshop will gather researchers working in this field with different origins and sensibilities (statistical mechanics, PDE, biology,…). The aim is on one hand to understand the impact that recent advances in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and PDE analysis can have on life sciences and, on the other hand, to widen the spectrum of models and phenomenologies tackled by mathematicians and physicists.

 

    • Registration and welcome coffee
    • Introduction
    • Julien Tailleur: Phase equilibria of phase-separating self-propelled particles
    • Coffee break
    • Eric Brunet: The Fisher-KPP equation with noise, and branching processes
    • Thomas Lepoutre: Quantitative convergence towards a self similar profile in an age-structured renewal equation for subdiffusion
    • Lunch break
    • Eric Vanden-Eijnden: Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies
    • Discussion break
    • Cecile Appert-Rolland: Intracellular transport of cargos: tug-of-war, anomalous diffusion, and lattice deformation
    • Coffee break
    • Bastien Fernandez: Landau damping in the Kuramoto model
    • Leonid Bunimovich: Cross-immunoreactivity generates local immunodeficiency
    • Cocktail and poster session IHP ground floor

      IHP ground floor

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    • David Hansel: The balanced state: the standard model and beyond
    • Coffee break
    • Jurgen Kurths: Quenching and Reviving Oscillations in Complex Networks
    • Francesca Collet: Rhythmic collective behavior in mean-field systems
    • Lunch break
    • Amic Frouvelle: Nonlinear stability of aligned states for a alignment process on the sphere
    • Discussion break
    • Delphine Salort: Some PDE models in neurosciences
    • Coffee break
    • Boris Gutkin: Inverse Stochastic Resonance with an example in Purkinje Neurons
    • Public lecture by Stephane Douady: Les plantes font-elles des Mathématiques (bien avant nous) ?
    • Antal Jarai: Inequalities for critical exponents in sandpiles
    • Coffee break
    • Rinaldo Schinazi: A stochastic model for the evolution of a virus population
    • Matthias Birkner: A conditional coalescent limit in fixed pedigrees
    • Lunch break
    • Stephan Luckhaus
    • Discussion break
    • Luis Bonilla: Tumor induced angiogenesis
    • Coffee break
    • Luis Almeida: Geometry and wound healing mechanisms
    • Vincent Calvez: Velocity-jump processes: large deviations and acceleration of fronts in transport-reaction equations