Seminars

The St Andrews Mathematical Biology group runs a seminar series, with talks occurring on Mondays at 1pm. Talks are now run in a hybrid format, with some in person (Tutorial Room 1A) and some online (Teams).

Upcoming Seminars (Semester 2 2022/2023):

• 20/03/2023 – Konstantinos Alexiou (University of St Andrews) – Scaling limits for biochemical reaction systems and a stochastic model of multilevel selection.

• 27/03/2023 – Dimitrios Katsaounis (University of St Andrews)

• 17/04/2023 – Kairui Li (University of St Andrews)

• 24/04/2023 – Aimee Bebbington (University of St Andrews)

• 01/05/2023 – Georgia Beeton (University of St Andrews)

• 08/05/2023 – Cicely Macnamara (University of Glasgow)

Previous Seminars:

• 13/03/2023 – Mauricio Gonzales Forero (University of St Andrews) – Evo-devo dynamics of human brain size

• 06/03/2023 – Ben Swallow (University of St Andrews) – Directed dimension reduction and clustering for tracking and now-casting of epidemiological time series

• 20/02/2023 – Andrew Ó hEachteirn (University of Oxford) – Modelling Capillary Network Rarefaction in the Prion Dynamics of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Resistor Networks to the Human Connectome.

• 13/02/2023 – Viktoria Freingruber (University of Edinburgh) – How cells work together to migrate more efficiently (in person)

• 23/01/2023 – Jeremy Worsfold (University of Bath) – Before the continuum limit: quantifying fluctuations in particle models for collective behaviour.

• 12/12/2022 – Sara Hamis (Tampere University) – Studying cell-cell interactions using spatial cumulant models

• 05/12/2022 – Carles Falcó (University of Oxford) – Nonlocal continuum models of cell-cell adhesion and their Cahn-Hilliard approximation

• 28/11/2022 – Daniel Tudor (University of Edinburgh) – How mathematical models can help us understand immune cell interactions in tissue repair

• 14/11/2022 – Frederick Truman-Williams (University of St Andrews) – Hybrid models for biochemical reaction systems.

• 17/10/2022 – Lukas Eigentler (University of Dundee) – Modelling dryland vegetation patterns: the impact of non-local seed dispersal and mechanisms of species coexistence.

• 22/08/2022 – Theodor Cimpeanu – Promoting Pro-Sociality in Complex Networks

• 06/06/2022 – Spyridon Chavlis (Foundation for Research & Technology, Hellas (FORTH)) – Modelling dendritic computations in different levels of abstractions

• 23/05/2022 – Thomas Hitchcock (University of St Andrews) – What’s the value of reproductive value?

• 09/05/2022 – Eszter Lakatos (Cancer Research UK Barts Centre) – Modelling the evolutionary processes shaping the neoantigen landscape
  

• 11/04/2022 – Zena Hadjivasiliou (Francis Crick Institute) – Growth and patterning in development and evolution
  

• 04/04/2022 – Qi Su (University of Pennsylvania) –  Coupling multiple domains of interactions promotes prosocial behavior
  

• 28/03/2022 – Erez Yoeli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) – Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Seemingly Irrational Human Behavior
  

• 21/03/2022 – Rahul Bhui (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) – Computational rationality and the effect of context on decision making
  

• 14/03/2022 – Sonja Mathias (Uppsala University) – Numerical study of center-based models for tissue mechanics
  

• 07/03/2022 – Thomas Williams (University of Melbourne) – Choice of Spatial Discretisation influences the Progression of Viral Infection within Multicellular Tissues
  

• 14/02/2022 – Joscha Seutter (University of St Andrews)
  

• 07/02/2022 – Yunchen Xiao (University of St Andrews)
  

• 31/01/2022 – Fiona Macfarlane (University of St Andrews)