Location: "Alejandra Jaidar" auditorium,Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City.

A workshop organized by the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science of the University of New Mexico in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

Participants

Alejandro Aceves (UNM)
Modeling in epidemiology for two species in contact interaction.

Maximino Aldana (UNAM)
Boolean dynamics of genetic networks with scale-free topology.

Elena Alvarez-Buylla (UNAM)
Robustness and temporal pattern of floral organ determination as emergent properties of the Arabidopsis thaliana floral network dynamics.

Rafael Barrio (UNAM)
Reaction Diffusion Processes in living tissues.

Mark Bieda (Santa Fe Institute)
Comparative genomic approaches to understanding gene regulation.

Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois)
Effects of disorder in population dynamics.

Jamie Gillooly (UNM)
Towards a Metabolic Theory of Ecology.

Marco Jose (UNAM)
Inverse bilateral symmetry and random walks with long-range correlations in DNA coding sequences of bacterial chromosomes.

V. M. Kenkre (UNM)
Adventures with the Fisher equation: Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Epidemics and Bacteria.

Ricardo Mansilla (UNAM)
Long-range correlation in the whole human genome.

Gustavo Martinez-Mekler (UNAM)
Calcium Waves in Xenopus (toad) Embryogenesis.

Jose Luis Mateos (UNAM)
The Physics of Brownian motors.

Octavio Miramontes (UNAM)
Recent developments in complex networks.

Faustino Sanchez (UNAM)
The effect of growth and curvature in pattern formation.

Program

THURSDAY, DEC 4

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome words by Dr. Arturo Menchaca, Director of the Instituto de Fisica.
9:15 - 9:30 "Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science" by V. M. Kenkre, Director of the Consortium of the Americas.
9:30 - 10:20 Rafael Barrio (UNAM) "Reaction Diffusion Processes in living tissues."
10:20 - 11:10 Marco Jose (UNAM) "Inverse bilateral symmetry and random walks with long-range correlations in DNA coding sequences of bacterial chromosomes."

11:10 - 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:20 V. M. Kenkre (UNM) "Adventures with the Fisher equation: Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Epidemics and Bacteria"
12:20 - 1:10 Elena Alvarez-Buylla (UNAM) "Robustness and temporal pattern of floral organ determination as emergent properties of the Arabidopsis thaliana floral network dynamics."
1:10 - 2:00 Jose Luis Mateos (UNAM) "The Physics of Brownian motors."

1:45 - 4:00 LUNCH (COMIDA)

4:00 - 4:50 Karin Dahmen (University of Illinois) "Effects of disorder in population dynamics."
4:50 - 5:40 Gustavo Martinez-Mekler (UNAM)(*) "Calcium waves in the embrionary development of Xenopus-Laevis (frog)."

5:40 - 6:00 COFFEE BREAK

6:00 - 6:50 Faustino Sanchez (UNAM) "The effect of growth and curvature in pattern formation."

FRIDAY, DEC 5

9:00 - 9:50 Alejandro Aceves (UNM) "Modeling in epidemiology for two species in contact interaction."
9:50 - 10:40 Octavio Miramontes (UNAM) "Recent developments in complex networks."

10:40 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:50 Mark Bieda (Santa Fe Institute) "Comparative genomic approaches to understanding gene regulation."
11:50 - 12:40 Maximino Aldana (UNAM) "Boolean dynamics of genetic networks with scale-free topology."
12:40 - 13:30 Ricardo Mansill (UNAM) (*) "Scaling in the Human genome"

13:30 - 4:00 LUNCH (COMIDA)

4:00 - 4:50 Jamie Gillooly (UNM) "Towards a Metabolic Theory of Ecology."

4:50 - 5:15 COFFEE BREAK

5:15 - 6:45 ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION.