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070808 Paolo Vicini:

While biosystems have been analyzed using models appropriate for phenomena on given spatio-temperal scales, efforts to combine them into a unified, multiscale model have been hampered due to ambiguities arising from the need to interface the models. The theme of this minisymposium is that a rational development of the muliscale model should start with the finest scale model and then through various mathematical techniques the coarse-grained models should follow.

Mini Symposia for 2008 MSM Consortium meeting at the SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, August 4-7, 2008, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls08/index.php

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The Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) currently has participants from seven federal agencies of the U.S. government. This group was formed in 2003 and meets monthly solely from the interest of the program officers involved, who have a shared interest in applying modeling and analysis methods to biomedical systems. This panel will discuss various funding initiatives and opportunities supported by the IMAG agencies, in addition to the Multiscale Modeling Initiative that created the Consortium that is presenting at this meeting.

While biosystems have been analyzed using models appropriate for phenomena on given spatio-temperal scales, efforts to combine them into a unified, multiscale model have been hampered due to ambiguities arising from the need to interface the models. The theme of this minisymposium is that a rational development of the muliscale model should start with the finest scale model and then through various mathematical techniques the coarse-grained models should follow.