Arthur Winfree Memorial Lecture
The Arthur Winfree Memorial Lecture was instituted to remember our brilliant colleague who passed away on November 5th 2002 at the age of 60. Art Winfree, who was a member of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona, was an outstanding figure in mathematical biology for over thirty years. His work on biological clocks, described in his famous book "The Geometry of Biological Time", and on excitable media to model cardiac fibrillation and arrhythmia in the human heart, stand as enduring and inspiring contributions to interdisciplinary research at the interface of biology and mathematics. His many honors included a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1984, the Einthoven Award in 1989-1991 for his influence in cardiology, a Regents Professorship at the University of Arizona in 1989, and the Norbert Wiener Prize of 2000 from the American Mathematical Society and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics for his work on biological rhythms.
Lectures
- January 23, 2004
- Erik WinfreeCalifornia Institute of Technology
Clocks and Singularities in Fault-Tolerant Computing
- April 07, 2005
- James P. KeenerUniversity of Utah
The Topology of Defibrillation
- January 17, 2007
- George OsterDepartments of Molecular & Cellular Biology and ESPMUniversity of California, Berkeley
From biochemistry to morphogenesis in myxobacteria
- January 18, 2008
- Steven StrogatzCenter for Applied Mathematics and Department of Theoretical and Applied MechanicsCornell University
Synchronization in Nature