Presenter: Maria Angeles Colomer-Cugat,
titular Professor at the University of Lleida,Spain
Date: 13th November, 2013 (Wednesday), 15:30 – 16:15
Place: Meeting Room 311, Building South No.1 (南一楼中311会议室)
CV: M.Angels Colomer received her doctor degree in mathematical sciences by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. In the past, she was associated professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She is titular Professor of statistics and operative research at the University of Lleida. Her main research areas are in stochastic process and membrane computing. She has published seven books in statistics and control quality, three book chapters of applications of stochastic models, and 21 scientific papers.
Title of Lecture: Applications of Population Dynamics P systems
Abstract of Lecture: Mathematical models are a modern tool for scientific investigation. They have emerged as a powerful, indispensable tool for studying a variety of problems in scientific research, allowing us to analyze them and make predictions. A computational bio-inspired framework to model cellular processes is presented in this talk. The semantics is captured through an extension of the Gillespie algorithm. This paradigm is illustrated with a model of the ``quorum sensing'' in bacteria Vibrio fischeri. These bacteria exhibit coordinated behavior which allows an entire population of bacteria to regulate the expression of specific genes in a coordinated way depending on the size of the population.