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Attending ICMS Cancer Workshop in Dundee, U.K.

Posted by Paul Macklin

7 March 2007 at 12:25 PM PST (UTC +?)

I'll be attending the Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Cancer Invasion of Tissues workshop in Dundee, Scotland from March 26th to March 30th (my birthday). The workshop is organized by Mark Chaplain and hosted by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Although I have yet to receive email confirmation, it looks like I'll be giving a thirty minute contributed talk on our most recent centimeter-scale glioblastoma simulations. I'm very excited!

In the following week, I'll be working with Steven McDougall in Edinburgh to put the finishing touches on our joint tumor growth-angiogenesis software. After that, we'll be ready to start writing our joint papers.

On the dissertation front, I'm making slow progress on the writing. I spent some time tracking down subtle behavior in my code and improving the accuracy of our ghost fluid method extension. We should be submitting a paper on that to the Journal of Scientific Computing pretty soon. Next up: writing up our tumor growth model for the Journal of Mathematical Biology. After that, I can finally return to my dissertation writing for real.

Lastly, as a goofy web programming aside, I fixed some bugs in my PHP code that inaccurately displayed times in the noon and midnight hours, as well as single-digit minutes. (I accidentally appended a 0, rather than inserting it.)

Update: March 18, 2007: My contributed talk has been confirmed for Tuesday, March 27th at 3:30 pm. I guess I'd better get to work on that PowerPoint!