Bifurcation and Chaos in Population Biology

May 28, 2025 – May 30, 2025

Organizers:

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Abba Gumel
University of Maryland
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Sana Jahedi
University of Maryland
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Alex Safsten
University of Maryland
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Roberto De Leo
Howard University
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Jim Yorke
University of Maryland

This workshop brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers (including mathematicians, modelers, ecologists, epidemiologists, and immunologists) to discuss the current challenges and state-of-the-art advances in the application of bifurcation theory and chaos to analyze the long-term behavior of autonomous and non-autonomous (climate-driven) dynamical systems arising in population biology. Phenomena in ecology, oncology, immunology, epidemiology, social science (human behavior), conservation and sustainability of species and ecosystems, etc., will be targeted. The main themes of the proposed workshop are: bifurcations and chaos in multi-strain disease dynamics, bifurcations in immunology (e.g., between acute and chronic infections), bifurcations in models of tumor growth and treatment, and the onset of and recovery from chaotic behavior in ecological models.



Participants:

  • Lauren Childs, Virginia Tech
  • Stanca Ciupe, Virginia Tech
  • Nick Cogan, Florida State University
  • Daniel Cooney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Bill Fagan, University of Maryland
  • Tahmina Farhin, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • Ulrike Feudel, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
  • Nir Gavish, Technion Institute of Technology
  • John Glasser, Emory University
  • Martin Golubitsky, Ohio State University
  • Katharine Gurski, Howard University
  • Maria Gutierrez, University of Cambridge
  • Wenrui Hao, Pennsylvania State University
  • Kathleen Hoffman, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • Thomas Jun Jewell, University of Oxford
  • Phillip Johnson, University of Maryland
  • Sayomi Kamimoto, Howard University
  • Vadim Karatayev, University of Maryland
  • Jean Lubuma, University of Witwatersrand
  • Marron McConnell, University of Maryland
  • Arnaja Mitra, University of Maryland
  • Steve Munch, UC Santa Cruz
  • Salihu Musa, University of Maryland
  • Alice Oveson, University of Maryland
  • Binod Pant, Northeastern University
  • Soyoung Park, University of Maryland
  • Amy Patterson, University of Maryland
  • Yurij Salmaniw, Oxford University
  • Jonathan Simon, University of Maryland
  • John Vandermeer, University of Michigan
  • Joshua Weitz, University of Maryland
  • Kejia Zhang, University of Maryland

Poster:

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