UK MMSG Ion Channels Followup Meeting 2006

The meeting took place at the University of Oxford, from Thursday 30th to Friday 31st March 2006, as part of the UK Mathematics-in-Medicine Study Groups series. This was a follow-up meeting, inspired by the problem Ions in solutions and protein channels, which was studied at the UK MMSG Oxford 2005.

Programme

10.00: Registration and coffee
10.30: Welcome + admin (Dr Chris Breward)
10.40: Review of Scientific problem (Prof. Bob Eisenberg)
11.30: Review of Study Group findings (Prof. Colin Please and Prof. Jon Chapman)
12.15: Progress made since the Study Group (Dr Amit Singer)
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Related subject: Electrochemistry of Batteries (Dr Giles Richardson)
14.30: Discussion about work described so far with a view to figuring out 3 (ish) key problems for us to take forward
15.45: Coffee
16.15: More discussion
18.00: Summary (Prof. Colin Please)
19.00: Dinner

09.30: Identification of working groups for 3 (ish) areas + making plan for how to take area forward (eg discussion of publications, visits, research resource required etc)
11.00: Coffee
11.30: Group work
13.00: Lunch
14.00: Formal wrap up, summaries and plans from each subteam.
15.00: Further discussion/work time for those that don't have to rush off
17.00: End of play.

The following publications have been written as a result of this meeting:

Singular perturbation analysis of the steady-state Poisson–Nernst–Planck system: Applications to ion channels: A Singer, D Gillespie, J Norbury & RS Eisenberg (2008); European Journal of Applied Mathematics 19 (5), 541–560.
A Poisson–Nernst–Planck Model for Biological Ion Channels—An Asymptotic Analysis in a Three-Dimensional Narrow Funnel: A Singer & J Norbury (2009); SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 70 (3), 949–968.