The development and maintenance of mutlicellular tissues depends on the regulated balance of cell proliferation and cell differentiation. This balance depends critically on intercellular signalling, that allows cells to coordinate their behaviour in space and time. While this balance is typically strikingly robust during development, its dysregulation underlies many clinical conditions. Mathematical modelling provides a
The Mathematical Biology group at the AIMS Ghana Research Center invites you to an upcoming workshop featuring experts in developmental biology, immunology and epidemiology. The workshop will be organized under the German Research Chair in Mathematical Biology, Prof. Nick Monk, from 29th-30th August 2024, highlighting a range of projects using mathematical modelling to explore biological
Speaker: Dr Lily Clements from IDEMS International Title: Educating with Responsible AI Abstract: There is currently immense interest and awareness in the ethics of AI. In 2022, we were tasked with developing a Responsible AI course for the Turing Institute titled ‘How Data Lies’. In August 2023, we were tasked to give a double course in Burkina Faso
Title: Dynamic SIR Models with an Exact Solution Speaker: Prof. Dr. Delfim F. M. Torres Affiliation: University of Aveiro, Portugal Abstract: We investigate an epidemic model based on Bailey’s continuous differential system. In the continuous time domain, we extend the classical model to time-dependent coefficients and present an alternative solution method to Gleissner’s approach. If the coefficients are constant,
As part of its 10-year anniversary celebration under the theme: Developing versatile and innovative STEM leaders for Africa’s scientific excellence and socio-economic development, AIMS Ghana has instituted an annual public lecture in honor of the late Professor Francis Allotey who founded the institute and this event will be scheduled for August 9th every year. In
Abstract: I will present the result of a joint work with Pr. Etienne Pardoux (Aix-Marseille Université), in which we studied an epidemic spreading in a population consisting of a collection of households, each containing a small number of individuals. Individuals have frequent contacts with other members of their household, and occasional contacts with individuals chosen at
Abstract: Mathematical models of epidemics such as the current COVID-19 pandemics often use compartmental models dividing the population into several compartments. Based on a microscopic setting describing the temporal evolution of the subpopulation sizes in the compartments by stochastic counting processes one can derive macroscopic models for large populations describing the average behavior by associated
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Peter Imkeller (Institute for Mathematics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany) Abstract: We investigate geometric properties of graphs of Weierstrass or Takagi type functions, represented by series based on smooth functions. They are Hölder continuous, and can be embedded into smooth dynamical systems, where their graphs emerge as pullback attractors. It turns out that occupation measures
Abstract: The aim of our study is to propose a new exact simulation method for the first passage time (FPT) of a diffusion process (X_t , t ≥ 0). We shall consider either a continuous diffusion process (in collaboration with Cristina Zucca, University of Turin) or a jump diffusion (in collaboration with Nicolas Massin, University of
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