The Junior Trimester Program is primarily addressed to PhD students, postdocs and young assistant professors. Applicants are expected to have completed their PhD thesis at most 6 years ago. From the participants, group leaders will be selected who will organize small workshops and can take the initiative to invite a senior mathematician with whom they can carry out research together.
If a group of junior scientists wants to apply, then every member is asked to complete the application form below. Please do not forget to indicate the name of group leader and the names of the members. The Letter of Intent should contain a project description of the group and may be identical for all members.
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Mentors:
- Marie Doumic (Inria and Ecole polytechnique)
- Eugenia Franco (University of Bonn)
- J. J. L. Velázquez (University of Bonn)
The development of mathematical models describing biological phenomena has been an active research field during the last decades. Significant progress in experimental biology provides a large amount of precise quantitative information on many biological systems. This poses the challenge of understanding these processes using well established mathematical and physical models. A particularly difficult task is the development of mathematical tools allowing to analyze systems out of equilibrium. In addition, in many biological problems the study of inverse problems and the methods of control theory are playing an increasingly important role.
During this Junior Trimester Program we will bring together researchers working in classical branches of mathematical biology, as for instance structure population models, renewal equations and reaction-diffusion systems, as well as scientists interested in biological systems in which the lack of equilibrium plays a crucial role in their behavior, or experts in inverse problems with biological applications. Structure population models and reaction-diffusion equations had played a crucial role in areas like population dynamics, epidemiology and understanding pattern formation. There are still a large number of problems in biology in which these classical tools can be useful. At the same time tools of statistical physics and inverse problem theory have an enormous number of potential applications in biology.
The program will offer a series of events focused on these topics and host researchers at all levels on topics related with the one proposed in the trimester.
Link to Junior Trimester Program website
Trimester Program Events:
Each week of the Trimester Program includes numerous activities, such as a seminar series, lecture series, reading courses and so on. In addition, there are some major events, three workshops and one summer school. The workshops are aimed at people who are participants in the Trimester Program at that time. It is not possible to apply only for these workshops. The Summer School is aimed at early-career researchers, especially PhD students and postdocs. There is a separate application platform for this event, which can be found on the School's event page.
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Winter School
- Workshop 1
- Workshop 2
- Workshop 3