Organisers: Robert MacKay and David Wild

Aim: to advance the mathematics of complexity science and systems biology. This includes developing applications of mathematics to these areas and stimulating the development of new mathematics in response to the challenges they pose.

Introduction: Complexity science is the study of systems with many interdependent components. Its remit spans a wide range of areas, from physical and technological to biological and social systems. One large and important such area is Systems Biology, the study of living organisms from the point of view of systems rather than individual components; we shall give it particular attention. We believe that these subjects depend heavily on Mathematics for their healthy development and that conversely they provide rich sources of stimulation for new Mathematics.

An intensive year of research workshop and visitor activity during the academic year 09/10, to summarise the state of play, identify and address the main challenges and develop key ideas in a range of topics in these areas, with some follow-up activities in 10/11.

Workshops and Conference (and related activities)

• Information extraction from complex data sets, (INF)
  14-17 September 2009,
  organisers: D Wild, S Mukherjee, Z Ghahramani (Cambridge)
• European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS'09)
  21-25 September 2009, organisers: MA Kirkilionis, F Kepes (Genopole, France)
  
• Networks: dynamics and flows, (NET)
  28 September - 2 October 2009,
  organisers: MA Kirkilionis, IN Stewart
• (Taught course on Topics in Complexity Science, 09.15 Tue&Fri 13 Oct - 11 Dec, RS MacKay)
• Mathematical Network Theories seminar, 15.00 on Wednesdays, organiser: MA Kirkilionis
  
• From molecules to bodies: spanning levels of biological organisation in medicine, (M2B)
  14-15 December 2009,
  organisers: H van den Berg, P Thornalley, A Shmygol
• Space-time phases for spatially extended systems, (STG)
  6-8 January 2010,
  organisers: RS MacKay, C Maes (Leuven)
• Non-equilibrium dynamics of spatially extended interacting particle systems, (NEQ)
  11-13 January 2010,
  organisers: O Zaboronski, C Connaughton, SW Grosskinsky
• Mathematics of Evolutionary Dynamics
  1 Feb 2010
  Launch meeting of LMS network CoSyDy, organisers; M Mobilia (Leeds), RS MacKay
  
• Mathematical & Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology (MASAMB)
  29-30 March 2010
  organiser: D Wild
  
• Learning & Inference in Computational Systems Biology (LICSB)
  30-31 March 2010
  organiser: D Wild
• (School on Dynamics and Games in Economics
  11-13 April 2010
  organiser: S van Strien)
  
• Game theory for finance, social and biological sciences, (GAM)
  14-17 April 2010,
  organisers: VN Kolokoltsov, W McEneaney (San Diego), G Olsder (Delft)
• Dendrites, neurones and networks, (DNN)
  7-10 June 2010,
  organisers: M Richardson, Y Timofeeva, N Brunel (Paris), P Bressloff (Utah)
• Clocks, switches and signals, (CSS)
  14-19 June 2010,
  organisers: DA Rand, A Millar (Edinburgh), M White (Liverpool)
• Spatio-temporal dynamics challenges from fluorescence data, (FLUO)
  13-16 July 2010,
  organisers: NJ Burroughs, T Bretschneider
• Ecology, Epidemiology and Evolution: Biological Processes and Artificial Analogues, (EEE)
  14-16 September 2010 (postponed from April 2010),
  organisers: Leon Danon and Matt Keeling
• Movement in models of mathematical biology (a CoSyDy day) 15 Nov 2010, organisers: M. Mobilia (Leeds), C. Connaughton, R.S.MacKay
• Calcium dynamics in neuronal and glial cells , 4 April 2011, organiser: Y.Timofeeva, R.Thul (Nottingham)
• Mathematics in the Science of Complex Systems (MITSOCS), 9-10 June 2011, organisers: J.Johnson (Open Univ), R.S.MacKay
• Complexity and systems biology of microbial biofuels (CSBMB) 20-24 June 2011, organiser: Nigel Burroughs
• From Chaos to Complexity (FCC), 6-8 July 2011, organisers: Claude Baesens and Robert MacKay
• Satellite event: Mathematical Neuroscience (minisymposium at Equadiff 2011, Loughborough), 1-5 Aug 2011, organisers: S.Coombes (Nottingham), P.Bressloff (Oxford) (registration is via the Equadiff2011 website, deadline 30 April for early registration)