January 5-9, 2000

Third Winter school on Population Dynamics Woudschoten, The Netherlands, January 5-9, 2000.
Please feel free to pass this message on to anyone you think would be interested in modelling population dynamics.

This will be the third edition of this event, organised by Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek, Fleur Kelpin and Bob Kooi. The previous schools in January 1996 and January 1998 each attracted more than 50 PhD-students from a broad range of countries and population biological subjects. Reports by participants about these schools can be found in the BioMathematical Newsletter 13 and BMN 17.

As in the previous editions we emphasise the word `school' and aim to give PhD students in population biology a good understanding of the way mathematics is applied to study problems in their field as well as a thorough background in relevant deterministic and stochastic mathematical techniques. Five lecturers who will each give a series of 4 or 5 lectures. These lecture series start at an elementary level and connect to recent research topics towards the end. Basic techniques receive attention, and lecture notes accompany the presentation.

In addition we retain a successful part of the 1996 and 1998 editions in that participants team up in small groups around one or two papers of their choice from a list we provide. The papers cover the same areas as the lecture topics but go beyond the basic material. We look for stimulating and challenging papers that are allowed to be more difficult than usual, provided they have a rewarding message once you understand them. The groups then study these papers together during several periods of a few hours scattered throughout the week (the idea being that five know more than one and one learns to read more advanced papers). On Saturday one person from each group then gives a short presentation about the findings, ideas, criticism, comments etc.

The speakers are:

Fred Adler ecology and evolution)

Rob de Boer immunology, virology

Bas Kooijman dynamic energy budgets, ecotoxicology

Roger Nisbet stage structured populations, numerics and applications

Horst Thieme mathematics of physiologically structured population models

More details will be announced in the next issue of the newsletter. Registration forms will become available in early 1999. If you wish to be put on a preliminary list of participants, please send an e-mail with your details (including area of research) to Fleur Kelpin at the address below. There is a limit of 55 participants.

Further Information:

Fleur Kelpin Email : fleur@bio.vu.nl

Theoretical Biology Vrije Universiteit

De Boelelaan 1087 NL 1081 HV Amsterdam

The Netherlands http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/users/nls

Application form NLS Winter school on Population Dynamics Woudschoten

I would like to participate in the Third Winter school on Population Dynamics Woudschoten, The Netherlands, January 5-9, 2000
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Comments $$Payment Participation in the winterschool costs NLG 600,- This includes all meals, lodging (double rooms) and lecture notes. Travel costs are not included. Non-Dutch participants are kindly requested to pay in NLG and to use an international money transfer.

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Mention Winterschool 2000 order 2375206

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