Speaker: Dr. Tony Nance, Associate Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Abstract: Mathematics and physics have worked hand-in-hand for over 2000 years, each influencing and enriching the other. The same can be said for mathematics and chemistry over the last 200 years, but the work that mathematics and the life sciences have done with and for each other is best measured in decades. Why such a difference? What has changed to enable these two disciplines to work better together? And what is some of that work, anyhow? In this talk we will address these questions, highlight some of the exciting progress being made on important problems in biology and medicine, and discuss the role of the National Science Foundation's Mathematical Biosciences Institute.