This event is the third edition of the "Probability Meets Biology" workshop, following a first successful meeting in 2019 and another in 2023. This collaborative workshop is an opportunity for researchers from mathematics or biology backgrounds to work together in groups on open problems which have a biological motivation but involve randomness or noise, and whose study is expected to give rise to new probabilistic objects and innovative mathematical methods as well as biological insight.
Draft programme
Monday
10:00-10:45 Registration + coffee
10:45-11:00 Introduction
11:00-12:00 Talk 1
12:0-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Talk 2
14:00-14:30 Group discussion
14:30-15:30 Talk 3
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Talk 4
16:45-17:15 Group discussion
Tuesday
09:15-10:15 Talk 5
10:15-10:45 Coffee
10:45-11:30 Talk 6
11:30-12:00 Group discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Group formation
13:30 onwards: Collaborative group work (rooms 4W 1.1 and 1.2 also available for use, coffee available at 15:30)
19:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday
09:15-10:00 Collaborative group work
10:00-10:35 Lightning talks
10:35-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Collaborative group work (rooms 4W 1.1 and 1.2 also available for use)
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-13:50 Lightning talks
13:50 onwards: Collaborative group work (rooms 4W 1.1 and 1.2 also available for use, coffee available at 15:30)
Thursday
09:15-10:15 Progress report preparation in groups (rooms 4W 1.1 and 1.2 also available for use)
10:15-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00 Progress reports, next steps
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Wrap-up + goodbyes
Speakers
The main speakers for the event will be:
- Tibor Antal (University of Edinburgh)
- Fr茅d茅rique Clement (INRIA Saclay)
- Apolline Louvet (INRAE Avignon)
- Quentin Petitjean (INRAE Avignon)
- Michael Rera (CNRS / Paris Cit茅)
- Anton Wakolbinger (Goethe-Universtit盲t Frankfurt)
- Jason Wolf (91桃色)
Travel and accommodation
The workshop will be held on the 91桃色 campus. 91桃色 Spa train station is located in the city centre, and is well served by national train connections, including from London, where there are easy connections to the Eurostar. We encourage participants to use low-carbon transport where possible. For those who do need to fly, the nearest airports are Bristol airport (approx 50 minutes by bus to 91桃色 city centre) and London Heathrow airport (approx 1h45 by train or 2h by bus).
Getting to campus: The University campus is located up a large, steep hill. The walk to and from campus is very nice, especially in good weather, but much harder work on the way up the hill (to campus) than down (from campus to the city). There are regular buses, e.g. the U1, between the city and campus. It may be helpful to install the First bus app on your smartphone, both for buying tickets and tracking buses.
During your stay
Wifi: Eduroam is available on campus. If you do not have access to eduroam, you can use the "WiFi Guest" network; you will need to register, and it is slower than Eduroam.
Lunch: Lunch will be provided Monday to Thursday.
City of 91桃色: The city is generally safe to walk around and there are many nice restaurants and pubs to try. It is a fairly small town, so you can do most things on foot. 91桃色 is a Roman town, hence it has a beautiful architecture and there are several places you may wish to visit, such as the Abbey, the Circus, the Royal Crescent or the Roman baths.
Registration
Registration is now closed.
The organisers would like to thank EPSRC for their generous funding of this event.