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Session W13: Applications of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in the Life Sciences

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Sponsoring Units: GSNP DBP
Chair: Uwe Tauber, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Room: D225/226


Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:15AM - 11:27AM

W13.00001: Mean-field theory of four species in cyclic competition
C.H. Durney , S.O. Case , M. Pleimling , R.K.P. Zia

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:27AM - 11:39AM

W13.00002: Stochastic evolution of four species in cyclic competition: exact and simulation results
S.O. Case , C.H. Durney , M. Pleimling , R.K.P. Zia

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:39AM - 11:51AM

W13.00003: Random inheritance in a stochastic Lotka-Volterra model
Ulrich Dobramysl , Gabriel Martinez , Uwe C. T\"auber

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
11:51AM - 12:03PM

W13.00004: Time-dependent mechanical response of a network model for the cytoskeleton
Nasrin Afzal , Michel Pleimling

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:03PM - 12:15PM

W13.00005: Hopf Bifurcations in a Model for Circadian Rhythms in Arabidopsis Thaliana
Orrin Shindell , Randall Tagg

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:15PM - 12:27PM

W13.00006: Translation with secondary structure: Dynamic blockages in totally asymmetric simple exclusion process
Leah Shaw

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:27PM - 12:39PM

W13.00007: Rescue Interventions in Biological and Physical Networks
Sean Cornelius

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:39PM - 12:51PM

W13.00008: Feedback control for stabilizing chaotic spiral waves during cardiac ventricular fibrillation
Ilija Uzelac , John Wikswo , Richard Gray

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
12:51PM - 1:03PM

W13.00009: Experimental and theoretical evidence for fluctuation driven activations in an excitable chemical system
Harold Hastings , Sabrina Sobel , Richard Field , Scott Minchenberg , Nicole Spinelli , Keith Zauderer

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:03PM - 1:15PM

W13.00010: The statistical physics of decision-making in insect colonies
Patrick M. Hogan , Thomas Schlegel , Nigel R. Franks , James A.R. Marshall

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:15PM - 1:27PM

W13.00011: Thermodynamic efficiency out of equilibrium
David Sivak , Gavin Crooks

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:27PM - 1:39PM

W13.00012: A simple model for the transmission of malaria
Adriana Dickman

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Thursday, March 24, 2011
1:39PM - 1:51PM

W13.00013: Genearlized force-extension relation for DNA confined in sub-100nm nanoslits
Yeng-Long Chen , Po-Keng Lin , Chia-Fu Chou

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