Networks in Ecology and Beyond

Presented by the PRogram in Interdisciplinary Math, Ecology and Statistics

at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado


Thursday April 26 and Friday April 27, 2007

Hilton Hotel, Fort Collins, Colorado


Overview Speakers Brief Schedule Schedule with Abstracts
Registration Travel
All events (other than Dinner Thursday) will be held in the State Room at the Fort Collins Hilton.

Brief Schedule


Thursday, April 26, 2007

8:30 a.m. Breakfast

Networks in Food Webs

9:00 a.m. An Overview of Food Web Structures and Dynamics Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute

9:45 a.m. Mutualistic Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity Jordi Bascompte, Estacio Biologica de Donana, Spain

10:20 a.m. Break

10:35 a.m. Organizational Culture as a Complex System: balance and information in models of influence and selection Ken Frank, University of Michigan

11:30 a.m. New Approaches for Old Webs: Archaeological and Paleobiological Ecological Network Analysis Jennifer Dunne, Santa Fe Institute

12:15 p.m. Lunch

Social Networks and Disease Modeling

1:30 p.m. Applying R tools for network analysis to understanding the prevalence of diseases David Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

2:15 p.m. The use of network models to study host-parasite interactions using empirical wildlife data Sarah Perkins, Pennsylvania State University

3:00 p.m. Break

3:15 p.m. Social Networks and Social Niche Construction in Primates Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland

4:00 p.m. Exponential-family random graph models for human networks David Hunter, Pennsylvania State University

4:45 p.m. Discussion/Wrap Up

6:00 p.m. Dinner at Bisetti's

Transportation to dinner not provided, but we will allow time to arrange carpools.


Friday, April 27, 2006 AM

8:30 a.m. Breakfast

Spatial Networks in Ecology

9:00 a.m. Introduction to Spatial Modeling in Networks  Tim Keitt, University of Texas, Austin

9:40 a.m. Spatial networks and dispersal: some case studies Jordi Bascompte, Estacio Biologica de Donana, Spain

10:20 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Graph Models of Habitat Mosaics Dean Urban, Duke University

11:10 a.m. Robustness, Resistance, and Resiliancy in Landscape Networks Tim Keitt, University of Texas, Austin

11:50 a.m. Landscape Networks and Ecological Metrics Dave Theobald, Colorado State University

12:30 p.m. Lunch

New Directions in Networks

1:45 p.m. Networks in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Simon Tavener, Mathematics, and Edwin Chong, Engineering, Colorado State University

2:25 p.m. Low-rank smoothing splines on complex domains: smoothing estuaries Haonan Wang, Statistics, Colorado State University

3:05 p.m. Break

3:20 p.m. Algorithms for graphs and networks Anton Betten, Mathematics, Colorado State University

4:00 p.m. Algorithms and DataStructures for Molecular Biology Problems
              RossMcConnell, Computer Science and Mathematics, Colorado State University

4:40 p.m. Discussion/Wrap Up



Overview Speakers Brief Schedule Schedule with Abstracts
Registration Travel

For more information or corrections to web page, please contact Christian Hampson at hampson@math.colostate.edu