Last revision: Sept 26,  2003 -  D.  Nerini  &  J.C. Poggiale

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    A Summer school on Mathematical Ecology will be held in Sigüenza, Spain, August, 2003. The school will feature aspects of models and methods in ecology where the scale is an issue: energy budgets, evolutionary aspects of aggregation, particle coagulation and flocculation in the sea, fish schooling and animal aggregation. It will also provide training on subjects of general interest: dynamical systems, fractals, aggregation of variables and a tutorial on computer simulations and software platforms for IBMs. The progression of the courses will be adjusted in such a way that most classes can be attended both by ecologists willing to improve their background in mathematics and mathematicians with the same desire for ecology.

The school will take place in the Seminary of Sigüenza which will also accommodate the participants and the instructors. The entire Seminary will be at the disposition of the school. The Seminary is a recent construction, with a number of class rooms of various sizes, surrounded by a large garden. It is a few kilometers away from the medieval town of Sigüenza, whose the Parador, an old castle superbly renovated, and the Cathedral will give the participants a pretext for pleasant evening excursions. Sigüenza is about 100 kilometers from Alcalá and 130 kilometers from Madrid, both locations can be reached by the regional train.



The language of the school is English

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Ecology aims at studying living communities interacting with their environment on the one hand and the cycle of different elements (carbon, nitrogen, phosporus, ...) on the other hand. It has been divided for a long time between two main approaches : the first one concerns with ecology of communities while the second deals with the cycle of elements in the biosphere, each of these approaches is based on specific concepts.

A current challenge consists in reconciling the two approaches. This objective needs to integrate processes from the molecular scale to the ecosystem scale. Indeed, an ecosystem is a set of different living organisms living in a changing environment with which they interact. Physical and chemical  parameters modify biological processes and the biological response in turn acts on physical and chemical properties of the environment. These interactions clearly depend on the considered scale. For instance, in a marine ecosystem, the turbulence has effects on phytoplankton growth which depends on the scale. At the individual cellular level, the interaction takes place in a few minutes and acts on the uptake process. At the population level, the interaction takes place in a few hours or a few days and acts on the phytoplankton population growth at a large scale. However, there are also interactions between the processes at different scales. Individual behaviours modify communities dynamics and population densities have effects on individual behaviours.

The school aims at presenting different ways of analyzing the scales that matter for given problems and different ways of analyzing interactions between processes at different scales. It will feature aspects of models and methods in ecology where the scale is an issue: energy budgets, evolutionary aspects of aggregation, particle coagulation and flocculation in the sea, fish schooling and animal aggregation. It will also provide training on subjects of general interest: dynamical systems, fractals, aggregation of variables and a tutorial on computer simulations and software platforms for IBMs. The progression of the courses will be adjusted in such a way that most classes can be attended both by ecologists willing to improve their background in mathematics and mathematicians with the same desire for ecology.

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	Before JUNE 15, 2003	After JUNE 15, 2003
DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS	800 € ($)	900 € ($)
STUDENTS AND  FELLOWS  WHO ARE ESMTB MEMBERS	700 € ($)	750 € ($)

The fee covers registration in all school's activities, including the use of available computer equipment and the stay at the Seminary of Sigüenza during 10 days (from Sunday 24, evening, through Wednesay 3, afternoon). It covers board and lodging (double occupancy) and two coffee breaks per day for the 10 days. Stays lasting less than 10 days, notified on registration, give right to a reduction of 30 euros per day off (this does not apply to participants having received a grant from the organizers).

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They must be adressed to "EMBMA", (Euro-Mediterranean BioMathematics Association) with the following SIRET number: 432 141 190 00012.

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Reduced-fee registrations	June 15th, 2003
Deadline for submission of lecture notes and presentation notes	June 1st, 2003
Deadline for pre-registration	June 15th, 2003

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P. Auger, C. Bernstein (Lyon 1, France), R. Bravo de la Parra (U. Alcala, Spain), P.H. Gouyon (Paris, France) J. Hofbauer (Vienna, Austria), G. Jackson (Texas A&M, USA), M. Kimmel (Rice University, Texas, USA), S.A.L.M. Kooijman (Free U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Y. Lagadeuc (Rennes, France), A Lobo. (Institute of Earth Sciences, Spain), C. Mullon (IRD, France), M. Pascual (U. of Michigan, USA), J.-C. Poggiale (Marseille-Luminy, France), S. Schreiber (Vienna, Austria).

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Discover the courses contents and schedules on this page. Details are given concerning the structure of the courses and the organisation of the school. This is not the final version and modifications can be supplied later. Links are available where participants can download files containing the courses (see "courses contants" section).
 
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Click this link to access the registration file and follow the instructions.

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O. Angulo, J. Arino, O. Arino, A. Blasco, R. Bravo de la Parra, P. Mourelo, D. Nerini, J.-C. Poggiale (Managing Director), M.A. Zavala.

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Any questions? Any comments? Please, mail to : J.C. Poggiale .

People interested in joining the ESMTB could do it electronically at http://www.esmtb.org/join.html. Registration (or documented pre-registration) to the ESMTB gives automatic entitlement to the reduced school fee. The ESMTB fee (40 euros full registration, 24 euros students) may be paid directly to ESMTB or together with the school fee, either by anticipation or at the school's venue.

Pending the acceptance of grant proposals, the organizers hope to further reduce fees. 

The school will be followed by AICME II, the second Alcalá International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, in Alcalá de Henares  (http://euromedbiomath.aicme.free.fr/).

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