Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology

June 14-17, 2009 , Hangzhou , P.R. China

The international Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) and the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology (CSMB) will hold a historical joint mathematical, theoretical and computational biology meeting in Hangzhou, the most beautiful and poetic city of China, June 14-17, 2009. This precedence-setting joint SMB-CSMB international gathering will be hosted by Zhejiang University , one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious universities in China . The themes of the conference will include most mainstream topics in mathematical and computational biology and medicine. It is hoped that this meeting will seed many timely and long lasting east-west collaborations. The SMB president, Professor Avner Friedman, and the vice-president of Zhejiang University , Professor Jun Zhu, will co-chair this joint meeting.

The SMB is an international learned society which promotes and facilitates interactions between mathematical and biological sciences communities through membership, journal publications, travel support, information sharing, and conferences. SMB has been the leading international organization in mathematical biology for the past thirty years, with members from more than fifty countries. The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology is the official journal of SMB.  

The CSMB is an organization which promotes interactions among Chinese mathematical biology community and other branches of science including biology, medicine and industry. The Journal of Biomathematics is the official Journal of CSMB. CSMB hosted four international mathematical biology meetings in the last 15 years.  

Applications are invited for contributed presentations. Researchers interested in organizing mini-symposia are invited to submit their proposals. A mini-symposium should consist of four 25 minute presentations on a single topic of current interest and importance in mathematical and computational biology. However, mini-simposium proposals of significant interest with 8-12 presentations will also be considered. Proposals by researchers working in a Chinese institution should be submitted to Professor Jun Zhu ( jzhu@zju.edu.cn ), other proposals should be submitted to Rebecca Martin ( rebecca@mbi.ohio-state.edu ). Mini-symposium proposals shall be submitted on or before February 1, 2009 .