The continuous interaction between scientific inquiry and mathematical development has historically driven the growth of mathematics as a discipline. Fields such as quantum mechanics, economics, and computer science have consistently presented challenges that have pushed the boundaries of mathematical knowledge. We propose to organize a workshop which aims to facilitate this type of interaction between the field of cancer modeling and mathematics. We believe that now is a perfect time for this, because mathematical oncology, as a field, has reached a certain degree of maturity and accumulated a larger number of unsolved, fascinating problems. There has also been a significant explosion in the quantity, quality, and types of available data. A conversation between computational scientists studying cancer and mathematicians will serve two highly desirable goals: (1) using novel mathematical tools to solve the scientific problems, and (2) the science of cancer giving rise to new mathematics.
Carina Curto
(Brown University)
Trachette Jackson
(University of Michigan)
Natalia Komarova
(University of California San Diego)
Smita Krishaswamy
(Yale University)
Shmuel Weinberger
(University of Chicago)
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