Date: Monday 4 to Friday 8 of August, 2025
Location: G301 on the 3rd floor of Building G (G Hall), Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Nara, Japan
Time schedule*
Day 1, Monday 4 August:
9:00- 9:30 Orientation of SPMM2025 at the computer room G301, Building G, Faculty of Science NWU.
All participants should participate in this orientation. Program contents, instruction and access to computer facilities, Wifi, etc., will be given. All participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own laptop (Linux/Windows/macOS) with python3 + related packages installed.
10:00- 12:00, 13:30- 16:00 Lecture and simulation exercise at G301. Difference equations in discrete time and ordinary differential equation ODE models in continuous time. Numerical methods to solve ODEs.
Day 2, Tuesday 5 August:
9:00- 12:00, 13:30- 16:00 Lecture and simulation exercise at G301. Applications of ODE models to biological phenomena.
Day 3, Wednesday 6 August:
9:00- 12:00, 13:30- 15:00 Lecture and simulation exercise at G301. Stochastic population dynamics in continuous time with discrete population size. Pareameter estimation for ODE-based and stochastic population models.
15:30- 18:30 A socializing event with NWU graduate students at NU cross.
Day 4, Thursday 7 August:
9:00- 12:00, 13:30- 16:00 Lecture and simulation exercise at G301. Stochastic population dynamics in discrete time (Branching process), Point pattern dynamics models.
Day 5, Friday 8 August:
9:00- 12:00 Lecture and simulation exercise at G301. Advanced topics of population dynamics.
13:30- 16:00 General discussion. Closing ceremony of SPMM2025 at G301.
*Time schedule and topics may be subject to change. More detailed information will be added as needed.
Evening tour to Osaka Namba will be organized on some day.