As the discipline of mathematical biology rapidly expands, one of the field's experts in disease dynamics comes to MathFest to discuss the relationship between diseases and social landscapes. Arizona State University professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez has done research on influenza, HIV, and tuberculosis as well as re-emergent diseases such as SARS, Ebola, and the West Nile virus. He has also spent time researching the problems the United States could face from "natural or deliberate disease invasions."
Chavez will deliver the Joint MAA-SMB Invited Address, titled The Dynamics of Emergent and Re-Emergent Diseases: From Tuberculosis to SARS to the Flu. The event will take place Friday, August 3, at 8:30 a.m.
The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) has been the leading organization in mathematical biology for the past 30 years, offering its members the chance to participate in a rapidly growing field that is influencing areas from public policy for health-related issues to conservation of natural resources. See the list below for other MathFest events that explore interactions between mathematics and biology.—R. Miller
MAA-SMB-JSMB Joint Short Course
Implementing Biology Across the Mathematics Curriculum
Wednesday, August 1, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, August 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
MAA Invited Address
Managing Natural Resources: Mathematics Meets Politics, Greed, and the Army Corps of Engineers
Louis Gross, Department of Ecology
Friday, August 3, 9:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
MAA SIGMAA on Computational and Mathematical Biology
Invited Paper Session: Mathematical Questions in Bioinformatics
Friday, August 3, 1 p.m.-4 p.m.
Joint MAA-SMB Reception
Friday, August 3, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
MAA Contributed Paper Session
Biomathematics in the First Two Years
Saturday, August 4, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Panel on "Curriculum Development and Research by Undergraduates in Mathematical Biology"
Jason Miller, Truman State University
Saturday, August 4, 2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
Other MathFest highlights:
William Dunham Presents Euler in Three Acts
Robert Schneider on Math, Music, and Psychedelic Rock
Daniel Goldston and the Revenge of the Twin Prime Conjecture
Jennifer Tour Chayes on the Mathematics of Dynamic Random Netowrks
Donald E. Knuth on "Negative" Fibonacci Numbers
Flatland: The Movie
Register for MathFest at http://www.maa.org/mathfest.