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Modelling Of Population and Evolutionary Dynamics

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A characteristic of the natural world is that strongly related phenomena occur across a vast range of organisms, scales and environments. Consequently multi-discplinary approaches have the potential to highlight "universal" processes or effects. MOPED was conceived as a forum to allow researchers in departments throughout the University to come together to discuss common issues and to motivate future joint initiatives and research straddling the varied disciplines.

Getting involved

Details of future meetings will be posted on this website. All are welcome to attend. Additionally you may want to subscribe to the MOPED email list. In this way you can be involved in general discussions of the key (and other) topics and in the formulation of future MOPED meetings and initiatives (including grant applications). The email address for the list is moped-forum@lists.soton.ac.uk. The details on how to subscribe to this email list can be found here. Alternatively just send Adrian Martin (apm1@soc.soton.ac.uk) your email address and he will add you to the email list himself.

Key Topics

Previous meetings

1. model-fitting 2. how to go from individual/small-scale to population behaviour? 3. reaction-diffusion systems 4. developing a `correct' model and control theory 5. comparing models 6. evolution 7. synchronisation 8. biologically inspired computing

Inaugural Meeting SOC 24th November 2004 Speakers: John Hemmings SOC Assimilation of ocean colour data into marine ecosystem models John Steele SoH Archaeological demography Emma Guirey SOC The application of synchronisation theory to plankton patchiness Lali Guichon SoBS The population dynamics of invasion and conservation Phil Wallhead SOC Optimizing marine ecosystem models with phase space data Patrick Doncaster SoBS Sex and ageing in a crowded world Adrian Martin SOC Malthusian curbs on the generation of patchiness in microbes Tim Sluckin Maths Some interesting Lotka-Volterra systems Colin Please (Maths), Meric Srokosz (SOC) and Richard Watson (ECS) also attended. This meeting got MOPED off to a good start by allowing people to give a quick introduction to their research and interests to an audience drawn from five University departments. This was followed by a discussion which identified Key Topics (see opposite) that would be of interest for future focussed meetings or seminars.

Participants

Person	Dept.	Tel.	Email	Key topics of interest
			(suffix all .soton.ac.uk
			or @soton.ac.uk)
Tom Anderson	SOC	26337	tra@soc
Patrick Doncaster	SoBS	24352	cpd	1,2,3,5,6,8
Mike Fasham	SOC	26342	mjf@soc
Emma Guirey	SOC	26630	ejg@soc
Lali Guichon	SoBS	24396	lali	1,2,3,4,5
Robin Hankin	SOC	27743	rksh@soc	1,2,5,8
John Hemmings	SOC	27793	jch@soc	1,5
Adrian Martin	SOC	26342	apm1@soc	1,2,3,4,5,7
Fernando Milesi	SoBS	24396	fer
Colin Please	Maths	22332	cpp
Tim Sluckin	Maths	23680	t.j.sluckin
Meric Srokosz	SOC	26414	mas@soc	1,2,3,4,5,7
James Steele	SoH	24198	tjms
Phil Wallhead	SOC	26630	pjw5@soc
Richard Watson	ECS	22690	raw@ecs	1,2,6,8

Links

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