Schedule

Location: Facultad de Matematica y Estadistica, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Address: Campus Diagonal Sud, Carrer de Pau Gargallo 14, Les Corts. (When you enter the building, go left and down). Sala de actos. Map here

Monday 3rd

08:45 to 09:00     Registration

09:00 to 10:00     David Oriola: A positive feedback loop controls the onset of gastruloid symmetry-breaking. Abstract.

10:00 to 11:00     Xavier Trepat: Epithelial mechanics from the bottom up. Abstract.

11:00 to 11:30    Coffee break

11:30 to 12:30    Ester Comellas: Turing patterns in skeletal limb formation. Abstract.

12:30 to 13:30    Gemma Huguet: Oscillatory Dynamics in Neuronal Networks using exact mean field models: Insights for Effective Communication. Abstract.

13:30 to 15:00    Lunch (at Parc Cientific) 

15:00 to 16:00     Daniel Santos-Olivan: Computational modeling of multicellular systems. Abstract. 

17:00                     Social drinks

Tuesday 4th

09:00 to 10:00     Carles Barril: A population model with hierarchic size-structure: deterministic versus stochastic formulations. Abstract.

10:00 to 11:00     Inaki Ruiz: Phenotypic plasticity at the unicellular-to-multicellular transition. The truth about animal origins. Abstarct.

11:00 to 11:30     Coffee break

11:30 to 12:30     Sergio Alonso: Interaction between biochemical pattern formation and stochastic fluctuations in the crawling of living cells. Abstract.

12:30 to 13:30     Marina Vegue: Studying the effects of the immune response on virulence evolution. Abstract.

13:30 to 15:00     Lunch (at Parc Cientific)  

15:00 to 17:00     Discussions

Wednesday 5th 

09:00 to 10:00     Jose Canizo: Improved bounds for the heat equation on exterior domains. Abstract. 

10:00 to 11:00     Maria Jose Caceres: Pseudo-equilibria sequence and long-time behaviour of some nonlinear PDEs for neural populations. Abstract.

11:00 to 11:30     Coffee break

11:30 to 12:30     David Nicholas Reynolds: Rayleigh-friction driven models of collective dynamics: Flocking, Consensus, and Synchronization. Abstract.

12:30 to 13:30     Susana Gomes: Parameter estimation for macroscopic models in life and social sciences using trajectory data. Abstract.

13:30 to 15:00     Lunch (at Parc Cientific)  

15:00 to 17:00     Discussions

20:00                    Conference Dinner

Thursday 6th

09:00 to 11:00     Discussions

11:00 to 11:30     Coffee break