2013

2013

• 10 April 2013 - YCCSA's Professor Jon Timmis and Professor Peter Cowling are part of the CAPACITIE consortium (Cutting-edge Approaches for Pollution Assessment in CITIEs) which has received funding for a large number of PhD students and interns to work in this area.  CAPACITIE is lef by Professor Alistair Boxall.
  
• 10 April 2013 - EPSRC/ESRC have awarded £1.2 million to the New Economic Models and Opportunities for digital Games (NEMOG) project. The project will investigate ways in which to harness digital games to achieve scientific and societal as well as economic goals. The project is led by YCCSA's Professor Peter Cowling with collaborators at the CASS Business School, the University of Durham and a wide range of games companies, network organisations and user groups.
  
• 18 February 2013 - Article publilshed in Frontiers of Inflammation, 'Functional complexity of the Leishmania granuloma and the potential of in silico modelling' by John Moore, Daniel Moyo, Lynette Beattie, Paul Andrews, Jon Timmis, Paul Kaye. 
  
• 01 February 2013 - We are delighted to announce that YCCSA has signed a five year agreement on "Educational, Cultural and Scientific Exchanges" with SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) in Trieste, Italy.  Each institution will host academics and research students from the other for exchange visits, and will share academic research and educational material.  We look forward to a productive collaboration with SISSA.

2012

2012 

• 17 December 2012 - Ipek Caliskanelli, James Harbin, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Paul Mitchell, David Chesmore and Fiona Polack, ROLBPS - Runtime Optimisation in WSNs for Load Balancing Using Pheromone Signalling, has won the best paper prize at NESEA'12
• 5 December 2012 - Spartan: A Comprehensive Tool for Understanding Uncertainlty in Simulations of Biological Systems. K. Alden, M. Read, J. Timmis, P. Andrews, H. Veiga-Fernades and M. Coles.Accepted for Plos Computational Biology
• 9 November 2012 - Using Mathematics to reduce animal testing - YCCSA's Dr James Cussens, along with Dr Jon Pitchford and an interdisciplinary team, have won a grant to investigate if maths can help to reduce our testing on animals.
  
• 30 October 2012 - Professor Jon Timmis from YCCSA, is spending a week in Westminster as part of a unique 'pairing' scheme run by the Royal Society.  The scheme pairs some of the country's top scientists with MPs and civil servants, giving scientists an opportunity to see how they can help influence policy.  Under the scheme, Professor Timmis is paired with civil servant Porfessor Petra Oyston from the Defence Science and Technology Laborator (Dstl) in Salisbury.
  
• October 2012 - The image by YCCSA's Tom Keef, Jess Wardman and Reidun Twarock in the York Grand Tour, is now resident in YCCSA. 
  
• 30 August 2012 - Pioneering scientific study by YCCSA researchers will see 1,000 northern hairy wood ants fitted with tiny radio receivers.  Taking place over three years on the National Trust's Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire, the study will be the first to examine and track ant behaviour in the world
  
• 28 August 2012 - PhD student Samuel Ellis has given a guest blog for the Science of Biology about The Many Nests of the Hairy Wood Ant  
• 7 August 2012 - E.A. Foster, D.W. Franks, S. Mazzi, S.K. Darden, K.C. Balcomb, J.K.B. Ford, & D.P. Croft (In Press) Adaptive benefit of prolonged female post-reproductive lifespan in a long-lived cetacean. Science.
• 12 July 2012 - Elva Robinson, O Feinerman and NR Frankshave a paper out in the Journal of Experimental Biology entitled: "Experience, corpulence and decision-making in ant foraging".  A popular science article about the work available is available: "Why slim ants listen to the collective stomach"
  
• 8 June 2012 - Kieran Alden, Jon Timmis, Paul Andrews and others, have had their latest publication accepted by Frontiers, "Pairing experimentation and computational modelling to understand the role of tissue inducer cells in the development of lymphoid organs" 
• 30 May 2012 YCCSA residents Tom Keef, Jess Wardman and Reidun Twarock have contributed an image for the York Grand Tour which will be in place until the end of August
• 17 April 2012 Nikolai Bode, Dan Franks, Jamie Wood and researchers from the Universities of Essex and Exeter are published in American Society of Naturalists. Read the paper 
• 2 April 2012 Richard Greaves attended the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT 2012) at Trinity College, Cambridge and presented a paper "Extending an established simulation; exploration of the possible effects using a case study in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis". 
• 23 March 2012 Dr Elva Robinson co-author of "Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach?" in Journal of Experimental Biology Read the paper 
• 6 March 2012 YCCSA Graduate student Celina Wong wins the KM Stott prize for best 2nd year talk "A coarsely discretized size-structured model for marine ecosystems" 
• 6 March 2012 Dr Elva Robinson giave invited seminars at the Universities of Lincoln and Cardiff "Distributed Decisions: New Insights from Radio-tagged Ants". 
• 5 March 2012 Professor Richard Law co-author of Policy Forum on "Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries". Read the analysis, published in Science  
• 21 February 2012 Dr Dan Franks was invited by Dr Machteld Verzijden and Dr Ben Chapman of Lund University Sweden to give a seminar "Collective motion and animal social networks" and Workshop " Animal social network analysis". 
• 17 February 2012 Professor Susan Stepney gave a seminar "Simulation as a Scientific Instrument" at City College (an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield) in Thessalonika, Greece 
• 25 January 2012 Press coverage of the opening of the new UoY Robot Lab with robot research led by YCCSA's Professor Jon Timmis
  •  University of York Press release 
  •  York Press 
• 25 January 2012 Can a robot have an immune system? Public Lecture by YCCSA's Professor Jon Timmis 
• 1 January 2012 Dan Franks was published in Animal Behaviour: Social network correlates of food availability in an endangered population of Killer Whales. Click here to read  
• 1 January 2012 Nikolai Bode, Dan Franks and Jamie Wood were published in American Naturalist: Distinguishing social from non-social navigation in moving animal groups. Click here to read  
• 1 January 2012 Nikolai Bode, Dan Franks and Jamie Wood were published in Current Zoology: Social networks improve leaderless group navigation by facilitating long-distance communication. Click here to read  
• 1 January 2012 Nikolai Bode, Dan Franks and Jamie Wood were published in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology: Leading from the front? Social networks in navigating groups. Click here to read 

2011

2011

• 17 November 2011 Dr Elva Robinson gave an invited seminar at the University of Susses entitled " Distributed decisions: New insights from radio-tagged ants"
• 9 November 2011 Dr Julie Wilson attended the UK-china Science Bridges Diagnostics Open Innovation Workshop in Guanghou, China
• 25 October 2011 Pierre-Phillipe Dechant and Reidun Twarock were published in Annals of Mathematics: Novel Kac-Moody-type affine extensions of non-crystallographic Coxeter groups. Click here for full text
• 21 October 2011 Professor Susan Stepney gave a seminar at the University of Southampton's Strategic Research Group in Complexity, entitled "Complex Systems Simulation as a Scientific Instrument"
•  18 October 2011 Dr Elva Robinson gave an invited conference presentation at the James Hutton Institute's Wood Ant Symposium on 18 October entitled "The conservation status of Formica rufa and Formica lugubris in Northern England and the Midlands"
• 19 September 2011 At the Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology conference at the University of Essex
  • YCCSA Graduate student Zoe Cook won best student poster at the "Foraging, recruitment and multiple nest sites in ants".
  • YCCSA Graduate student Celina Wong gave a presentation "A coarsely discretized size-structured model".
  • Professor Richard Law gave a presentation "Growth dynamics in spatially structured plant communities".
  • Dr Gustav Delius gave a presention "Scale-invariance in size-spectrum models".
• 14 September 2011 YCCSA Graduate student Ali Dodson gave a presentation at the European Conference on Complex Systems workshop on Urban Social Dynamics: Segregation and Criminality "Formalising Schelling's Bounded Neighbourhood Model".
• 22 August 2011 Dr Elva Robinson has had a chapter published in: Ant Colonies: Behavior in Insects & Computer Applications.
• 17 August 2011 YCCSA Graduate student Zoe Cook presentated at the 'Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution' conference at the University of Groningen, Netherlands "The effects of recruitment strategy on the benefits of polydomy in ant colonies".
• 12 August 2011 A large contingent of YCCSA staff and students were at the European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL 2011 in Paris:
  • YCCSA Graduate student Adam Nellis gave a presentation "Embodied copying for richer evolution".
  • Dr Mick Lones gave a presentation "Controlling legged robots with coupled artificial biochemical networks" .
  • Dr Simon Hickinbotham, Dr Ed Clark and Adam Nellis ran a workshop "RUTSAC: Research Using The Stringmol Artificial Chemistry".
  • Dr Paul Andrews and Professor Susan Stepney ran a workshop "CoSMoS: 4th Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation".
  • Dr Alastair Droop and Dr Fiona Polack gave a joint talk at the CoSMoS workshop "Multiple model simulation: modeling cell division and differentiation in the prostate" and "Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate".
  • Professor Susan Stepney was on the "Pioneers Panel" Discussion.
  • Posters presented at the Conference were:
    • Reflecting on open-ended evolution, Susan Stepney and Tim Hoverd
    • Embodied genomes and metaprogramming, Simon Hickinbotham, Susan Stepney, Adam Nellis, Tim Clarke, Ed Clark, Mungo Pay and Peter Young
    • Embodied reaction logic in a simulated chemical computer, Fintan Nagle and Simon Hickinbotham
    • Recovering hidden swarm parameters using a simulated "Robofish", Richard Coates and Simon Hickinbotham
    • Energy as a driver of diversity in open-ended evolution, Tim Hoverd and Susan Stepney
    • Application of small-world mutation topologies to an artificial life system, Alastair Droop and Simon Hickinbotham
    • Degeneracy enriches artificial chemistry binding systems, Ed Clark, Adam Nellis, Simon Hickinbotham, Susan Stepney, Tim Clarke, Mungo Pay and Peter Young
• 1 August 2011 Professor Richard Law has been published:
  • Plank, M. J., and Law, R. 2011. Ecological drivers of stability and instability in marine ecosystems. Theoretical Ecology (electronic version) 
  • Bagchi, R., Henrys, P. A., Brown, P. E., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Diggle, P. J., Gunatilleke, C. V. S., Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, Kassim, A. R., Law, R., Noor, S., Valencia, R. L. 2009. Spatial patterns reveal negative density dependence and habitat associations in tropical trees. Ecology (electronic version)
  • Blanchard, J. L., Law, R, Castle, M. D. and Jennings, S. 2011. Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs. Theoretical Ecology 4:283-300.
• 21 July 2011 YCCSA Graduate student Richard Williams won best Computational Immunology paper at the 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems in Cambridge for his paper "In Silico Investigation into CD8Treg Mediated Recovery in Murine Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis"
• 6 July 2011 Professor Susan Stepney attended the 10th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, in Finland.  There she presented a paper on "heterotic computation", an approach to building hybrid combinations of unconventional and conventional computers.  This work is a collaboration between two YCCSA departments (CS and Chemistry) and Leeds' School of Physics and Astronomy.
• 6 July 2011 Dr Mic Lones chaired the Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation in New Orleans.
• 30 June 2011 Professor Jon Timmis was co-editor on a special issue of the journal Evolutionary Intelligence released in June. This issue explores the interaction of immunology and engineering with a variety of papers from world leading academics. Prof Timmis also presented a research seminar in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield entitled "On the Usefulness of agent based modelling for immunology"
• 24 June 2011 Dr Dan Franks of YCCSA gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar on "The social lives of killer whales"
• 10 June 2011 Dr Ville Mustonen from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar for YCCSA on "Quantifying selection from allele frequency time-series data"
• 31 May 2011 Dr Elva Robinson was published in PLoSone with Nigel R. Franks, Samuel Ellis, Saki Okuda, James A. R. Marshall "A Simple Threshold Rule Is Sufficient to Explain Sophisticated Collective Decision-Making"
• 27 May 2011 YCCSA held a Launch Event, following the move to the Ron Cooke Hub, attended by more than 25 Heads of Department and other senior staff from across University of York Campus aimed at forging new interdisciplinary collaborative research links.
• 18 May 2011 Dr Jon Pitchford attended a NC3Rs workshop on toxicology modelling at the British Medical Association, and gave seminars on evolution and stochasticity to the Mathematical Biology and Medicine research group at the University of Leeds.
• 13 May 2011 Dr Tom Stafford from the University of Sheffield gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar for YCCSA entitled "Infering cognitive architectures from high-resolution behavioural data"
• 12 May 2011 Dr Dan Franks was published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution: D.P. Croft, J. Madden, D.W. Franks & R. James (In Press) Hypothesis testing in animal social networks.
• 3 May 2011 Dr A Jamie Wood gave an invited talk at the Complexity centre in Bristol by Dr Luca Giuggioli on recent work on modelling collective motion.
• 30 April 2011 Professor Law has also been involved in the preparation of a report for the future use of marine resources: “ Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability” resulting from a scientific workshop organized by the IUCN-CEM Fisheries Expert Group (FEG) and the European Bureau for Conservation and Development (EBCD) in Nagoya (Japan).
• 18 April 2011 Dr A Jamie Wood gave an invited talk for the Computer Science department in Sheffield at the invitation of Dr James Marshall on recent work on modelling collective motion.
• 14 April 2011 Graduate student Jenny Burrow with Dr Jon Pitchford have been published in the Journal of Plankton Research: "The importance of variable timing and abundance of prey for fish larval recruitment".
• 13 April 2011 Dr Dan Franks is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences with an article that looks at how specialists and generalists can evolve: “Experiments with humans indicate that decision accuracy drives the evolution of niche width.”
• 13 April 2011 Professor Richard Law was an Invited speaker at “SIZEMIC Workshop: Changing Climate, Physiological Adaptation, Ecosystem Resilience & Body Size Constraints” held at the Institute for Hydrobiology & Fisheries Science, University of Hamburg, speaking on “Structure and stability in species-based and size-based ecological communities”. 
• 12 April 2011 Dr Indelicato gave a talk at ICMBC2011 entitled “A Mathematical Approach to Structural Transitions in Viral Capsids”.
• 12 April 2011 Professor Reidun Twarock was also invited Associate Professor Dr Hishamuddin Zainuddin to speak at speaker at the International Conference on Mathematical and Computational Biology 2011 (ICMBC2011) and gave a talk entitled "Virus and Geometry-Where Symmetry Meets Function" Chairperson.
• 11 April 2011 YCCSA Graduate student Nick Grayson gave a talk at the Society for General Microbiology Conference in Harrogate entitled "A Hamiltonian path approach to RNA virus assembly" while graduate students David Salthouse, Jessica Wardman both presented posters entitled "Quasi-Lattices in Virology- The Encasing Forms of Protein Capsids" and "Virology and Carbon Chemistry - Symmetry as a Common Thread?"
• 9 April 2011 YCCSA graduate student Richard Williams gave an invited talk by Nature Network at the Cambridge Union entitled “Project Management in Postgraduate Research”.
• 8 April 2011 Dr Franks visited Dr Darren Croft at the University of Exeter to complete a review of network analysis in ecology.   YCCSA graduate student Nikolai Bode has been there since the start of March working with automatic video tracking of guppies in this collaboration.
• 6 April 2011 Dr Jamie Wood organised a workshop on Metabolic Networks and Modelling at the National e-Science centre in Edinburgh. The workshop was part of a year of activities on e-Science Theme 14, Modelling and Microbiology, which Dr Wood is a co-Leader.
• 1 April 2011 Dr James Cussens is the lead applicant on a £447,160 research grant supported by The Medical Research Council (MRC), "A graphical model approach to pedigree construction using constrained optimisation". This is a 3-year project starting June 2011 involving the Universities of York, Leicester and Bristol. The goal of the project is to develop efficient methods for constructing family trees ('pedigrees') from DNA data. Accurate pedigrees are crucial in assessing genetic influences on disease. Data for the project will be supplied by Bristol from their ongoing "Avon Longitudinal Study on Parents and Children" (ALSPAC) project.
• 29 March 2011 Graduate student James McKenzie gave a presentation entitled "Fusion of Data from Metabolomic Studies" at the Data to Knowledge conference at AstraZeneca in Cheshire
• 26 March 2011 Professor Reidun Twarock gave an invited talk at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge entitled “Viruses under the Mathematical Microscope: Deciphering the Code of Viral Geometry”. 
• 20 March 2011 Dr Julie Wilson was invited to visit the Departament de Prehistòria at Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres in Barcelona by Dr Karen Hardy.  While she was there, she gave a talk on "Automated analysis of ancient starch granule morphology".
• 11 March 2011 Dr Tony Shannon from the Clinical Review Board, Leeds NHS Trust gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar entitled "An Information Revolution for the NHS"
• 7 March 2011 The 2011 YCCSA TRANSIT Scholarships are now open for applications.
• 4 March 2011 Dr Giuliana Indelicato was part of the organising and training committee for two training courses for High School teachers in Italy for the Compagnia Di San Paolo Fondazione Per La Scuola - Accademia Di Matematica held in Venice and Modena. 
• 25 February 2011 Dr John Forrester of YCCSA gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar entitled "What does an anthropologist do anyway: and why is there one in YCCSA?"
• 15 February 2011 Graduate student Samik Datta, Dr Gustav Delius and Professor Richard Law with Dr Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand have been published in the Journal of Mathematical Biology “A stability analysis of the power-law steady state of marine size spectra”.
• 7 February 2011 Prof Susan Stepney talked on "Wanted: Formalisms for Natural Computing" as part of the BCS-FACS Evening Seminar Series, at their offices in London.
• 4 February 2011 YCCSA graduate student Richard Williams was invited by Prof Eva Qwarnstrom, Head of Cell Biology at Sheffield Medical School to give a talk entitled “In Silico Experimentation using Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis”. 
• 28 January 2011 Professor Susan Stepney gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar for YCCSA entitled "Formalisms for Natural Computing"
• 27 January 2011 Intelligent Systems group wins new European Project on swarm robotic systems.
  We are pleased to announce that a team from the Intelligent Systems group is part of a new European funded project focussed on the development of cognitive swarm robotic systems. The project, CoCoRo (Cognitive Collective Robotics) aims at creating a swarm of interacting, cognitive, autonomous robots. It will develop a swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that are able to interact with each other and which can balance tasks (interactions between/within swarms). These tasks are: ecological monitoring, searching, maintaining, exploring and harvesting resources in underwater habitats. The project is led by the Artificial Life laboratory at the University of Graz in Austria, with other members of the consortium being the University of York, University of Stuttgart (Germany), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy. The York team is led by Prof Jon Timmis and Prof Andy Tyrrell and will begin in April 2011 and last for 3 years.
• 24 January 2011 Professor Richard Law gave an invited talk at the University of Durham’s School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, on “Dynamic size spectra: developing an ecosystem perspective to fisheries management”.
• 14 January 2011 Dr Adam Sampson from Abertay University gave a TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar for YCCSA entitled "Free-Range Code: open source in practice".
• 14 January 2011 Professor Reidun Twarock and Dr Leo Caves will be part of the management team of the CIDCATSinterdisciplinary PhD Programme in Infectious Disease (Combating Infectious Disease: Computational Approaches in Translational Science), funded by the Wellcome Trust. This four-year PhD training programme will provide students (including those with a strong background in a non-biological science, engineering or mathematics) with in-depth knowledge of infectious diseases and the interdisciplinary skills necessary to conduct research in one of the following three inter-related research themes, that are central to our ability to combat these infections:
  • Drug Target Development
  • Predictive Modelling of Pathogenesis and Treatment Response
  • Development of Novel Tools for Complex Data Analysis.
  Dr James Cussens, Dr Dan Franks, Dr Jon Pitchford, Professor Jon Timmis, Dr Julie Wilson from YCCSA will be involved in research and teaching on the programme.
• 11 January 2011 Dr Elva Robinson: Richardson, T. O., E. J. H. Robinson, K. Christensen, H.J. Jensen, N.R. Franks, A.B. Sendova-Franks (2011). “Comment on P. Nouvellet, J.P. Bacon, D. Waxman, Testing the level of ant activity associated with quorum sensing: An empirical approach leading to the establishment and test of a null-model.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 269: 356-358.
• 7 January 2011 Professor Jon Timmis is to receive a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award for his work on immune modelling and immune-inspired swarm robotics. These awards are given to "respected scientists of outstanding achievement or potential" and will begin in April 2011 and last for five years.
• 1 January 2011 Dr Dan Franks: D.W. Franks & G.S. Oxford (In Press) The interrelationship between crypsis and colour polymorphism, Ecology Letters.

2010

2009

2009

• 27 November 2009 Carole Knibbe, Associate Professor, Université C. Bernard Lyon visited and presented a seminar entitled "Robustness and evolvability in digital genomes and gene networks"
• 17 November 2009 Pietro Speroni di Fenizio from the University of Coimbra, Portugal visited and presented a seminar entitled "From novelty in artificial chemistries to novelty in artificial life"
• 9 November 2009 Dr Franks is also recently published: D.W. Franks, G.D. Ruxton, & R. James (2010) Sampling Animal Association Networks with the Gambit of the Group, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 64(3), 493-503
• 3-6 November 2009 Dr Julie Wilson gave lectures on interpretation of the results of crystallisation experiments and the use of automated image analysis within the XtalPIMS crystallisation database at a workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland
• 30 October 2009 Congratulations to Dr Tanja Miethe on passing her PhD viva!
• 22-23 October 2009 Professor Susan Stepney attended an EU Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) proactive scheme Expert Consultation Workshop, and moderated the session on "Bio-Chemistry Based Information Systems"
• 9 October 2009 Professor Susan Stepney and Dr Julian Miller both gave presentations at the "Growth and Emergent Behaviour" workshop, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia
• 29 September 2009 Dr James Cussens was an invited speaker at a workshop of the "LOgic-STatistic Modeling and Analysis of Biological Sequence Data (LOST)" project in Roskilde, Denmark
• 25 September 2009 Several members of YCCSA attended the European Conference on Complex Systems, Warwick, and between them presented 4 posters on their research
• 17 September 2009 YCCSA are the Biology 6-a-side Football Champions! 

• 16 September 2009 Several members of YCCSA attended ECAL 2009, the 10th European Conference on Artificial Life, in Budapest, and between them presented five talks and posters including "Molecular microprograms"
• 11 September 2009 Jon Pitchford presented a talk, "Are Levy flights better than optimal?" at the Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution conference, University of Bristol. Graduate student, Jenny Burrow also gave an oral presentation entitled "Linking plankton dynamics and stochastic fish recruitment models"
• 11 September 2009 Professor Susan Stepney attended the 8th International Conference on Unconventional Computation, in the Azores, where she gave an invited talk on "Classical computing with NMR" in the Novel Computing Substrates workshop
• September 2009 Graduate student, Chris West, was published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 2009 66(9):1919-1930 Christopher D. West, Calvin Dytham, David Righton and Jonathan W. Pitchford "Preventing overexploitation of migratory fish stocks: the efficacy of marine protected areas in a stochastic environment"
• 25 August 2009 Professor Reidun Twarock presented a plenary talk at the European Women in Mathematics conference in Novi Sad, Serbia in August 2009. She also presented a plenary talk at the Aperiodic Order Workshop in Leicester entitled "Applications of group theory and tiling theory in virology" in September 2009. Professor Twarock also gave a talk at the Phage and Virus Assembly meeting in Annecy, France in Sep 2009, entitled "The impact of symmetry on assembly pathway selection". Research Associate, Eric Dykeman, gave an oral presentation at the same conference entitled "Characterisation of virus assembly pathways by experiment and theory"
• August 2009 Dr Mike Plank and Dr Richard Brown from the Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, both visited YCCSA over the summer to work on magic frogs and alien plants (among other things), and to run the Three Highest Mountains In The World
• 9 August 2009 Professor Jon Timmis was the General Chair for the 8th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, held here in York and Professor Susan Stepney presented a workshop at the conference entitled "Statistics with Confidence"
• 12 August 2009 Professors Jon Timmis, Susan Stepney and Dr Fiona Polack all presented papers at the Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation Infrastructure (CoSMoS) Workshop, held here in York, entitled "A Domain Model of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis", "Environment orientation: an architecture for simulating complex systems" and "Equivalence Arguments for Complex Systems Simulations - A Case-Study"
• August 2009 Professor Paolo Cermelli and Dr Giuliana Indelicato of the University of Turin visited YCCSA as part of their collaborative research project with Professor Reidun Twarock's group on structural transitions in viruses
• 27 July 2009 Graduate student Jenny Burrow presented at the International Conference on Mathematical Biology in Vancouver on "Linking Plankton Dynamics to Stochastic Fish Recruitment Models"
• 10 July 2009 Graudate student Phil Garnett gave a talk in Prague at the Auxin and Cytokinins in Plant Development - 3rd International Symposium entitled "O7-3 Agent Based Modelling of Auxin Transport Canalisation"
• 12 July 2009 Congratulations to Dr Alastair Droop on passing his PhD viva!
• 2 July 2009 Dr James Cussens gave an invited talk at SIM 2009 in Leuven, Belgium entitled: "A tutorial on logic-based approaches to Statistical Relational Learning"
• 31 May 2009 Professor Jon Timmis was the Special Sessions Chair at The IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation in Trondheim, Norway. Professor Susan Stepney presented a poster at the same conference entitled "Representation and Structural Biases in CGP" and Dr Edward Clark presented a paper entitled "Gene Regulation in a Particle Metabolome". Research Associates Mungo Pay and Adam Nellis also attended the conference
• 30 April 2009 Professor Reidun Twarock presented a talk at the 6th International Virus Assembly Symposium organised by Professor Polly Roy in Greece, entitled "Beyond quasi-equivalence: Intriguing molecular scaling in viruses revealed by a new fundamental geometric principle". Professor Twarock also gave an invited talk at the annual meeting of the Society of General Microbiology in Harrogate in April 2009 entitled: "Beyond quasi-equivalence: Intriguing molecular scaling in viruses revealed by new fundamental geometric principle" and an invited morning lecture at the British Mathematics Colloquium in Galway in April 2009 entitled "Applications of Group Theory in Virology: Affine extensions of noncrystallographic groups predicting virus architecture"
• 23 April 2009 Professor Angela Brew from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council presented a seminar talk hosted by the EPSRC funded TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Research project entitled: "Integrating Teaching and Learning: What do we know?", which examined ways to developing a deeper understanding of the relationship between teaching and research. The talk was videoed and can be seen at http://www.transit.york.ac.uk/angelabrew
• 16 April 2009 Dr Dan Franks' paper: "Warning signals evolve to disengage Batesian mimics", a study of the colour codes used by wildlife and published in Evolution  63(1) has generated significant international press interest from the Yorkshire Post to the Singapore Straits Times
• 13 March 2009 Dr Rosalind Allen from the University of Edinburgh presented a seminar hosted by Dr Jamie Wood, in the TRANSIT Interdisciplinary Seminar series, entitled: "Simulating the flipping of the bacteriophage lambda genetic switch" and Stella Devitt-Jones and Catherine Samiei from the University of York St John presented a seminar hosted by Dr Angelika Sebald, in the same series entitled "Anarchy doesn’t work unless you think about it: exploring the purpose of Critical Thinking in Higher Education" (with video, which can be found at http://www.transit.york.ac.uk/critical)
• February 2009 Professor David Sumpter, from the University of Upsaala gave a seminar on collective dynamics: Decision-making by groups of fish, birds and locusts as part of a visit hosted by Jamie Wood and funded the EPSRC Transit programme
• 6 February 2009 Jamie Wood participated in the second meeting of the White Rose funded MICRO