[REPORT À 2025] POSTPONED TO 2025 - Stochastic Hybrid Models of Community Dynamics

Nov 4-6, 2024

Dr. Carlos Melian, University of Bern

Dr. Leonardo Aguirre, EAWAG

The workshop is supposed to foster collaboration between theoretical and empirical ecologists interested in community dynamics of interacting populations in variable environments. The workshop consists of three sessions, one day each. Participants will learn how individual-based conceptual models can be translated into stochastic hybrid models and how to forward-simulate them in-silico using programming exercises in Python. Further, it will be discussed how these models can be related to classic ecological questions and about the ramifications for real-world scenarios. Everyone is encouraged to bring their own conceptual models of potentially interesting community interaction dynamics – perhaps a long dormant side project that you'd like to revive?

Day 1

We will collect an array of conceptual community models that will serve as examples throughout the course. It will be explained how to abstractly represent them as stochastic hybrid models and how to forward-simulate them using the computing-resources at EAWAG. It will be shown how the class of stochastic hybrid models can be used to build composite models, integrating mechanistic detail across scales, and participants will attempt to embed the previously discussed examples in more realistic ecosystem models.

Day 2

I will present some of the typical mathematical tools used to analyze stochastic hybrid models, which will allow to make contact with classical questions questions asked in theoretical ecology. Participants will attempt to relate the previously discussed example models to hypothesized general phenomena from the literature.

Day 3

We will broaden the discussion and scrutinize the role that ecological theory and ecosystem models can play for the discipline of ecology as a whole, both in terms of scientific method as well as in relation to ecosystem management. Participants will discuss whether and how the models at hand can be made useful in this respect.

EAWAG Kastanienbaum

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When?
Nov 4th - 6th, 2024

Where?
EAWAGSeestrasse 79, 6047 Kastanienbaum

Contact:
@: ecologie-evolution(at)cuso(dot)ch

Reimbursements for CUSO EE students:
- Train ticket, 2nd class, half-fare from the central train station of your university to the place of the activity. Please claim the expenses via your myCUSO account. See HERE for the procedure.

Late cancellations (after 08.10.2024) or no-show: administrative fee of 100 CHF.

FULL BOARD FEES:

• CUSO PhD Students: FREE
  
• Other CUSO participants (postgraduates, postdocs, etc. from CUSO universities = UNIL, UNIBE, UNINE, UNIFR and UNIGE): 400 CHF
  
• External participants, i.e. from non-CUSO universities: 500 CHF
  

External participants (i.e. from a non-CUSO university): Please contact ecologie-evolution(at)cuso(dot)ch before registering! Thanks.

In case of cancellations before Oct 8, 2024: free
Late cancellations or no-show: administrative fee of 100 CHF

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