Special Session 15: Recent Advances on Population Models in Ecology and Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Junping Shi , Zhisheng Shuai , Yixiang Wu

Parallel Session 6 :: Friday, June 2, 08:00 – 10:00                     MO209
8:00-8:30	Rachel Leander (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)  Optimal Impulse Control of a Late-Season Model of a West Nile Virus Epidemic

8:30-9:00

Yurij Salmaniw (University of Alberta, Canada)  Modelling Habitat Loss with Partial Differential Equations: Degradation, Destruction and Fragmentation

9:00-9:30

David Chan (VCU, USA)  The effect of global warming on plant population dynamics on barrier islands

9:30-10:00

Ananta Acharya (University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA)  The diffusive Lotka-Volterra competition model in fragmented patches I: Coexistence

Parallel Session 7 :: Friday, June 2, 14:00 – 16:00                     MO209
14:00-14:30	Yoshihisa Morita (Ryukoku University, Japan)  Front propagation for the bistable reaction-diffusion equation on unbounded metric graphs

14:30-15:00

Xiaojie Hou (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA)  Traveling pulses and their bifurcations in a diffusive Rosenzweig MacArthur model

15:00-15:30

Daniel P Maes (University of Michigan--Ann Arbor, USA)  The Effects of Intransitive Loops of Competition on the Stability of Ecological Communities

15:30-16:00

Ursula Trigos-Raczkowski (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)  Coexistence due to life history variation revisited in models with explicit patch aging

Parallel Session 8 :: Friday, June 2, 16:30 – 19:00                     MO209
16:30-17:00	Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University, USA)  Impact of Population Dispersal on Disease Prevalence

17:00-17:30

Vinodh Kumar Chellamuthu (Utah Tech University, USA)  A Mathematical Model to Assess the Efficacy of Wolbachia Transinfection in Mosquitoes in Controlling Dengue Fever Outbreaks

17:30-18:00

Xiunan Wang (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)  Threshold dynamics of a nonlocal dispersal HIV/AIDS epidemic model with spatial heterogeneity and antiretroviral therapy

18:30-19:00

Chidozie W Chukwu (Wake Forest University, USA)  Analysis of two-group Malaria model incorporating vaccination and optimal control

Parallel Session 10 :: Saturday, June 3, 14:00 – 16:00                     MO209
14:00-14:30	Jin Wang (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)  Multiscale models for cholera dynamics

14:30-15:00

Jerome Goddard II (Auburn University Montgomery, USA)  Ecological release and patch geometry can cause nonlinear density-area relationships

15:00-15:30

Rongsong Liu (University of Wyoming, USA)  An approach to model the bird migration and the transmisssion dynamics of bird flu among migration birds

Parallel Session 11 :: Saturday, June 3, 16:30 – 19:00                     MO209
16:30-17:00	Annette Ostling (University of Texas, Austin, USA)  Competitive coexistence of populations with hierarchical size structure

17:00-17:30

Guy Katriel (Braude College, Israel)  Dispersal-induced growth: a mathematical analysis

17:30-18:00

Ying Zhou (Lafayette College, USA)  Ideal free dispersal in integrodifference equation models

18:00-18:30

Tung D Nguyen (Texas A&M University, USA)  Maximizing Metapopulation Growth Rate and Biomass in Stream Networks

18:30-19:00

Seoyun Choe (University of Central Florida, USA)  The impact of travel restriction on patterns of disease dynamics for multi-patch models