Despite the immense progresses made over the last decades in mathematical biology, the multifaceted nature of biological processes still represents an enormous challenge for mathematical modeling. Technological advances lead to many new experimental observations, which can then be used to improve the accuracy of modeling. As a result, sophisticated mathematical methods have be- come crucial for addressing the key questions and paradigms in diverse biological systems, for making predictions of the effects of system perturbations and for their control.

The goal of this program is three-fold: Emphasize the role of Analysis and Partial Differential Equations in understanding biological phenomena, foster cooperation among researchers in those subject areas from everywhere in the world, and expose students and researchers to challenging problems in the fields of living systems (biology and medicine). An opening to the communities of statistics and probability will be present all through the trimester. To make sure that the interaction of mathematics with other sciences will play an important part in the discussions we will have many members of other scientific communities (in particular Biologists, Epidemiologists, Ecologists and Biophysicists) participating in the different events. The main scientific events of the trimester will be: