Josef Daniel Ackerman, PhD

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In Memorium

Akira Okubo, (1924 - 1996) - teacher, collaborator, and friend. 

Nominations for Akira Okubo Prize

In cooperation, the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Japanese Association for Mathematical Biology have established the Okubo Prize, in memory of Akira Okubo, the late professor of the State University of New York, who passed away in February, 1996.

                           Akira Okubo Prize

Nominations are requested for the Akira Okubo Prize which, for 2002, will be awarded to a living scientist under the age of 40 for outstanding and innovative theoretical work, for establishing superb conceptual ideas, for solving tough theoretical problems, and/or for uniting theory and data to advance a biological subject. The areas of research are mathematical biology, bio-mathematics, theoretical biology, and biological oceanography. The prize is jointly awarded by the Japanese Association for Mathematical Biology (JAMB) and the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB). The SMB would like to invite the prize winner to deliver a lecture at the next annual SMB meeting, which will be held in Dundee (Scotland) August 6-9, 2003. The JAMB will invite the winner to deliver a lecture at the next annual JAMB meeting, which will be held in Nara (Japan) September 20-22, 2003.

Rules for the prize can be found at http://www.smb.org/akprize.shtml and at http://www.smb.org/akguidelines.shtml

The prize was initiated in 1999 and the one previous winner in this age category is Martin Nowak.

To nominate a person for the Akira Okubo Prize, the following information should be submitted to Philip K. Maini VIA EMAIL (email maini@maths.ox.ac.uk)

1. Name, address, phone number, affiliation, and email address and/or fax number of the nominator.

2. Name, address, phone number, affiliation, and email address and/or fax number of the nominee.

3. A detailed statement describing why the nominee should be considered for the award.

Closing date for nominations is January 31st, 2003.

Nomination Committee:  Alan Hastings (U.C. Davis), Tsuyoshi Kajiwara (Okayama University), Jim Keener (University of Utah), Philip Maini (chair, University of Oxford), Takenori Takada (Hokkaido Tokai University) and Yasuhiro Takeuchi (Shizuoka University).

A Revision of Akira Okubo's Diffusion and Ecological Problems

Diffusion and Ecological Problems: Modern Perspectives

Edited by Akira Okubo and Simon A. Levin

2nd ed. 2001 XX, 467 pp. 114 figs. Hardcover 0-387-98676-6

This substantially expanded and updated version of the classic 1980 book by the late Akira Okubo traces the developments that have flowed from the original work, building on detailed notes he left for revision. The first edition was a comprehensive treatment of the use of diffusion models in ecology that integrated rigorous mathematical theory and substantive applications. Enormous in scope, covering a wide variety of topics and including models of spread, critical patch size, and grouping, it has remained one of the most popular books in mathematical biology and has stimulated extensive research in the two decades since its publication. In this volume, friends and disciples of Okubo incorporate a wide range of results from their own fields that build upon the framework he first established.

ASLO 2003 - Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, 8-14 February, 2003.

                    PLAN TO ATTEND!!!!

Botanical Society of America Annual Meeting (BSA).

British Ecological Society (BES).
(1) Annual Symposium : 
(2) Winter Meeting:

Ecological Society of America - (ESA) Annual Meeting. . 

MPATHE (Mechanics of Plants, Animals, & Their Environment) 2000. 11-16 June, Tuscany. 

North American Benthological Society Conference (NABS).

Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) Annual Meeting.  Salt Lake City, UT, 3-5 Aug. 2000. 

Last Modified on November 4, 2002.