Welcome
On September 21-22, The research groups of Mechanics and BioMathematics in the Department of Mathematics will host a workshop on the problem of Growth in Biological Systems.
All University Faculty, Students, and Tucson Residents are welcome to participate free of charge.
The sponsors for this event are The Department of Mathematics, the Program in Applied Mathematics, and the Quantitative Biology Initiative (part of the BIO5 Institute).
Scientific Themes
The problem of growth and remodeling in biological systems has long been a central theme of research in the life sciences. Recently, with the advances of theoretical mechanics, nonlinear elasticity, quantitative biomechanics, and physiology, there is a growing interest in the mathematical community for the development of a mathematical theory of biological growth. The purpose of this workshop is to bring scientists from different disciplines (mathematics, engineering, physics, physiology, botany,...) to present different approaches and applications to the problem of growth and exchange ideas. Specifically, two different domains of applications are specified: the growth in plants and the remodeling of physiological systems. These domains reflect the work and research interests of various groups within the University of Arizona.
Organizer: Alain Goriely
Scientific Committee: Tim Secomb, Michael Tabor, Alan Newell.
Invited participants:
- Patrick Shipman (U. Maryland)
- Jacques Dumais (Harvard University)
- Ellen Khul (Stanford)
- Krishna Garikapiti (U. Michigan)
- Mike Marder (U Texas, Austin)
- Boris Shraiman (UC Santa Barbara)
Local participants: (speakers in bold face)
- A. Newell, Zhiying Sun
- T. Secomb, Ardith El Kareh, Julia Arcieros
- J. Restrepo, J. Barber
- Jonathan P. Vande Geest (AME--Biomechanics)
- M. Tabor, Matt Beauregard
- S. Venkataramani
- A, Goriely, Joe McMahon,Rebecca Vandiver, Mark Robertson-Tessi, Bojan Durickovic
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