A number of meetings and workshops will be held around and during the event.

Epidemiological Methods and Clinical Trials for Preventative Health
Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 July 2004
8.30am – 5.30pm
Macquarie University, Sydney

The workshop will begin with a brief introduction to epidemiological methods and move quickly to a range of more specialised topics such as observational clinical trials, meta-analysis, spatial epidemiology, disease surveillance, environmental epidemiology and advanced general methods. Speakers include Professors Norman Breslow (University of Washington, Seattle), Peter Diggle (Lancaster University), Christl Donnelly (Imperial College London), Bhaswati Ganguli (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta), Malcolm Hudson (Macquarie University, Sydney), Louise Ryan (Harvard University, Boston), John Simes (Sydney University) and Linda Young (University of Florida, Gainesville).

For more details and to register, please visit http://www.cmis.csiro.au/IBC2004SatelliteWorkshop

Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics (ICE-EM) - Winter School in "Mathematics and Computational Biology"
Monday 5 – Friday 9 July 2004
Queensland Bioscience Precinct, The University of Queensland

Hosted by: Department of Mathematics and Institute for Molecular Biosciences

Topics of the Winter School are:

• Monday 5th - Complex biological systems
• Tuesday 6th - Pattern analysis and discovery
• Wednesday 7th - Computational modelling and visualisation of cells
• Thursday 8th - Computational complexity
• Friday 9th - Parallel computing and simulation

AMSI Winter School in "Mathematics and Computational Biology" is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Education, Science and Training.

For more information, please visit http://research2.imb.uq.edu.au/amsi/

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