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CIMPA 2020


Posponed due to COVID-19 !!!

New dates for the school: 3-14 May 2021

CIMPA Research Summer School

Mathematical models applied to molecular dynamics and oncology

3-14 May 2021, Santiago de Cuba

The school

  • The CIMPA Research Summer School on Mathematical models applied to molecular dynamics and oncology will take place in Santiago de Cuba from 3 to 14 May 2021, in the Rectorado de la Universidad de Oriente. It is part of the summer courses funded by CIMPA.
  • Applications for financial support from CIMPA are open until January 31th, 2020, and registration is open until February 28th, 2020.
  • The poster for the school can be downloaded here. Please feel free to use it for publicising the school.

Scientific topics

  • Tumor growth and its interaction with the immune system continue and will continue to challenge oncologists. The pace of progress has often been slow, in part because of the time required to evaluate new therapies. To reduce the time to approval, new paradigms for assessing therapeutic efficacy are needed. This requires the intellectual energy of scientists working in the field of mathematics and physics, collaborating closely with biologists and physicians. This essentially means that the heuristic experimental approach, which is the traditional investigative method in the biological sciences, should be complemented by a mathematical modeling approach. Advance in mathematical modeling and the last most significant progress in this domain need to be exchanged and developed with Cuba and other countries of the Latin America and Caribbean areas. This school is addressed for researchers, doctoral students, students of Master’s degree level and talented undergraduate students to acquire a basic training in the field of mathematics applied to medicine. This school will cover a wide class of mathematical models and applications in issues related to tumor growth, population dynamics, pattern formation and their implications in developmental cancer biology.

Coordinators

  • Local coordinator

    • Luis Enrique Bergues-Cabrales,
    • Centro Nacional de Electromagnetismo Aplicado, Universidad de Oriente, Cuba
    • Email addresss: berguesc@yahoo.com

  • External coordinator

    • Eduardo Martínez Fernández,
    • Instituto Universitario de investigación en Matematica y Aplicaciones (IUMA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
    • Email address: emf@unizar.es

Registration

If you are interested in attending the school we request that you register by email. Registration is handled separately for Cuban and non-Cuban students:

Any attendant to CIMPA 2020 must provide the following information when registering

  • Name:
  • Affiliation:
  • Email:
  • Please attach also a short CV

In addition, all the attendants must provide, when their travel schedule is decided, a filled form with aditional information about their travel. The filled document must be sent by e-mail to Luis Bergues (berguesc@yahoo.com) with copy to Dania Terán (daniat@uo.edu.cu) before April 1st 2020 (30 days before the beginning of the school). Important note: This filled form is required to participate in CIMPA-2020.

 

Attendance financial support

There is the possibility of requesting financial support from CIMPA: "All persons, except the lecturers, wishing to attend a CIMPA School are requested to register on the local web site of the school. People who require support to cover their costs of participation (travel and/or living expenses) can apply for a financial support from CIMPA on the web page: http://students.cimpa.info

Only the students and research teaching staff of an institution located in a developing country different from the country of the school are eligible to a financial support from CIMPA. Applications must be submitted before the deadline which is given on the CIMPA webpage of the school. Applications shall include a cover letter and two recommendation letters that will be sent electronically by the referees. Candidates are advised to complete their applications early enough and to ask the referees to send the letters long before the deadline. CIMPA will not assume responsibility for any last-minute application which cannot be completed due to technical reasons."

 

Deadlines

  • Requesting financial support: January 31th 2020 (closed)
  • Registration: February 28th 2020 (closed)
  • Sending additional data: March 31th 2020

Introductory Courses

  • Course 1

    • Juan I. Montijano
    • University of Zaragoza,
    • Dynamical systems in biology and medicine, qualitative study and numerical treatment

  • Course 2

    • Roberto Mulet,
    • Center for Molecular Immunology, Cuba
    • Statistical Mechanics of Metabolism

  • Course 3

    • Sebastien Benzekry
    • Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux,
    • Quantitative mathematical oncology

Advanced Courses

  • Course 4

    • Ana E. Bergues,
    • Max Plank Institute for Colloids and Interfaces,
    • Seeing single bio-molecules with dynamical modeling

  • Course 5

    • Nahuel Olaiz,
    • Laboratorio de Sistemas Complejos, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires
    • Why pulsed electric field on cancer?

  • Course 6

    • Víctor Pérez,
    • University of Castilla La Mancha,
    • Mathematical models of brain tumors and clinical implications

Lectures

  • Opening Lecture

    • Kalet León
    • Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM), Habana, Cuba
    • Overview of the application of Mathematical and Computational Biology at the Center of Molecular Immunology

  • Lecture 1

    • Mercedes Siles
    • University of Malaga, Spain,
    • Evolution algebras of small dimension

  • Lecture 2

    • María Schonbek
    • University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
    • Gompertz Equations and Fourier analysis

  • Lecture 3

    • Jose A. Carrillo,
    • Imperial college of London, UK
    • Mathematical models for cell adhesion leading to cell sorting

  • Lecture 4

    • Eduardo Martínez,
    • Universidty of Zaragoza, UK
    • Some dynamical systems in biology

  • Closing Lecture

    • Fidel Castro
    • Cuba
    • New trends in Mathematics and Physics applied to nanoscience, nanomedicine and nanotherapy

Scientific Committee

  • Juan I. Montijano, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Mercedes Siles, University of Málaga, Spain
  • Maraelys Morales, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Luis E. Bergues, University of Oriente, Cuba

Organizing Committee

  • Yolanda Shum-Hung, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Beatriz Nueno, University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Margarita Velázquez, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Antonio R. Selva, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Erick Ramírez, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Henry Bory, University of Oriente, Cuba
  • Yamila Lebeque Pérez, University of Oriente, Cuba

Touristic information

Information about Santiago de Cuba can be found here

 

Conference Centre:

Rectorado de la Universidad de Oriente. You can find here a map to go from the hotel to the conference centre.

 

Accomodation for Participants:

Hotel Las Américas 3*. Here are maps to arrive at the hotel from the airport or from the bus station. The hotel reservation will be arranged by the organizers for all the students and the speakers that desire it. For any other question about this hotel pleas contact with

 

Travel Agency:

All services regarding hotel reservations different from the Hotel Las Américas, transfers hotel/airport, flights inside Cuba and touristic packages can be done through CUBANACAN. They will offer negotiated prices for the participants at the school. The contacts are Lic. Debora Bell (Tel: 53-22-642202; 53-22-643445, e-mail: director@avc.scu.tur.cu) and Yetsy Lezcano (Tel: 53-22-642202, e-mail: comercial@avc.scu.tur.cu).

 

Airlines arriving to Santiago de Cuba:

Cubana de Aviación arrives to Santiago from Madrid (Tuesdays), Rome (Thursdays) and Paris (Sundays). There are charter companies like Blue Panorama that offer travels to Santiago de Cuba. There are plenty of options to fly to Havana and then connect there with Cubana de Aviación. There are charter flights from London Gatwick to Holguin by Condor, then you have to travel by bus to Santiago de Cuba. students from latinamerica and southamerica can travel with COPA. There is a direct fly from Panama to Holguin (wednesday and saturday). Holguin is only two hours from Santiago de Cuba.

 

Visa:

All participants can visit Cuba with touristic visas. However, it is very important that once you received the acceptance or you fix your travel details, you send to Luis Bergues (berguesc@yahoo.com) the following filled form.

Full list of Sponsors

  • Internationl Centre for Pure and applied Mathematics (CIMPA), France
  • University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
  • Instituto universitario de investigación en matemáticas y aplicaciones (IUMA), University of Zaragoza, Spain
  • Proyecto entre la Universidad de Oriente y las Universidades de Bélgica (VLIR-IUC UO)
  • Centro de Inmunología Molecular, La Habana
  • International Mathematical Union, Comision for Developing Countries

Contact

You can contact the organizing committee by sending an email to the address emf@unizar.es or berguesc@yahoo.com