The Fourth China-Italy Conference
Mathematical Models in Life Science: Theory and Simulation
May 31-June 2, 2005
Xiang Shan Hotel, Beijing, China

Background
Since Biomathematics is one of the hottest subjects in 21st century, this conference will focus on the Mathematical Model in Life Science. As the marginal subject of Biology and Mathematics, Biomathematics not only provides mathematical methods to study and solve biological problems, but also makes it possible to carry out theoretic study on mathematical methods which concern biology. Mathematics improves Biology to be abstractive and quantitative, thus helps to discover the mystery of life. Mathematical Model describes the movements of vital substances quantitatively, and it turns complicated biological problems into mathematical ones. For example, it was a great success to apply Mathematical Model to forecast the epidemicity of SARS.

Both Italian and Chinese exports are on top of the world study in this field. As a result, both sides will benefit from their discussion and attain great achievements in this bilateral conference.

Organzing Committee
Alfredo Bellen: University of Trieste, Italy
Zhiming Chen: Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS
Weinan E: Princeton University, USA
Zhongci Shi: Institute of Computational Mathematics, CAS
Pingwen Zhang: Peking University, China

Supported By National Natural Science Foundation of China.

For more details, please visit the conference website at:
http://ccse.pku.edu.cn/activities/2005life/introduction.htm