This workshop is organized by the UGA Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) in association with the IMACS World Congress Conference on Computational and Applied Mathematics & Applications in Science and Engineering(http://www.uga.edu/imacs), which will be held at UGA on August 03-05, 2009. NSF has recommended funding to support students and postdocs to participate in this workshop. The objective of this workshop is to give interdisciplinary education, training and research in the mathematical and biological sciences. It will provide the participants with an overview of the necessary mathematical and biological background that are essential for a good number of applications in biological sciences. The number of funded participants will be between 30 and 40. This is based on the level of funding that NSF will provide. The funds will provide 3 nights lodging (shared rooms), registration which includes two coffee breaks each day, lunch at each day of the workshop and travel expenses up to $325.00. Topics to be covered are: 1. Numerical simulations of ecosystems 2. Systems biology of complex traits 3. Analysis of compositional heterogeneity among microbial genomes 4. Functional connectivity and neuronal network dynamics 5. Reconstructing metabolic pathways through network modeling of experimental data WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Thiab Taha, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 2. Jonathan Arnold, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 3. James Prestegard, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 4. Anne O. Summers, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 5. Andrew Sornborger, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA If you are interested, please apply by May 21, 2009 at [Application Form]. If you are a faculty member who is interested in attending, please register at [Registration]. Contact Person: Thiab Taha / Professor Computer Science Department University of Georgia Email: imacs@cs.uga.edu