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Schedule for: 18w5144 - Mathematical and Statistical Challenges in Bridging Model Development, Parameter Identification and Model Selection in the Biological Sciences

Beginning on Sunday, November 11 and ending Friday November 16, 2018

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, November 11
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, November 12
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Introduction by the organisers (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Darren Wilkinson: Scalable algorithms for Markov process parameter inference (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Matthias Chung: From parameter and uncertainty estimation to optimal experimental design: challenges in biological dynamical systems inference (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Adelle Coster: Building models that encode both the known and the unknown (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:45 - 14:00 Group Photo (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Gary Mirams: Challenges in ion channel model calibration, selection and discrepancy (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Adam MacLean: Hybrid modeling and parameter inference reveals branching constraints for kidney morphogenesis (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Alexander Browning: A Bayesian sequential learning framework to parametrise a model of melanoma invasion into human skin (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Michael Plank: Spatial moment models for collective cell behaviour (TCPL 201)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, November 13
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Rob Deardon: Emulation-based methods for parameterizing spatial infectious disease models (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Dennis Prangle: Variational inference for stochastic differential equations (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 David Campbell: Testing for statistical parameter identifiability (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Alexandre Bouchard-Cote: Bayesian computational biology (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Thomas Prescott: Multifidelity approaches to approximate Bayesian computation (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Ramon Grima: Computationally efficient parameter estimation for gene regulatory networks (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Simon Cotter: Transport map-accelerated adaptive importance sampling for inverse problems of multiscale stochastic chemical networks (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Barbel Finkenstadt: Inference for stochastic oscillators with distributed delays
 (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Priscilla Greenwood: Stochastic vs. deterministic modeling in bio-science (TCPL 201)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, November 14
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Jonathan Dushoff: Bridging between statistics and science: Some philosophical claptrap (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Mark Lewis: Study design and parameter estimability for spatial and temporal ecological models using data cloning (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Aaron King: Forward-in-time phylodynamics via sequential Monte Carlo (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Oksana Chkrebtii: Identifying individual disease dynamics in a stochastic multi-pathogen model from aggregated reports and laboratory data (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, November 15
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 Mike Dowd: Sequential Monte Carlo approaches for inference in dynamical systems: application to spatio-temporal models of ocean biogeochemistry (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 Oliver Maclaren: Lessons for biological parameter estimation from large-scale engineering inverse problems (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Barbara Holland: Assessing model adequacy in molecular phylogenetics (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Paul Francois: Untangling the hairball: fitness based reduction of biological networks (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Jill Gallaher: Systemic dynamics and effects from multiple metastases during adaptive therapy in prostate cancer (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Susanna Röblitz: Empirical Bayes methods for prior estimation in systems biology modelling (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:00 - 15:30 Jonathan Harrison: Experimental verification of a coarse-grained model predicts that production is rate-limiting for mRNA localization (TCPL 201)
15:30 - 16:00 John Fricks: Estimating velocity from time traces of molecular motors (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 David Umulis: Three-dimensional finite element modeling of dynamic BMP gradient formation in zebrafish embryonic development (TCPL 201)
18:00 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, November 16
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:30 Structured discussion and emergent topics (TCPL 201)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
11:00 - 11:30 Discussion and concluding remarks (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)