Aims of the meeting

Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE) is one of the largest conferences bringing together researchers working at the interface between evolutionary biology and the mathematical, physical, and computational sciences. It takes place every two years in a different city of Europe:

MMEE 2007 at the University of Sussex (UK),

MMEE 2009 at the University of Bristol (UK),

MMEE 2011 at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), and

MMEE 2013 at the University of York (UK).

MMEE 2015, Collège de France, Paris is the first edition of MMEE taking place in France (and the second outside of the UK), and will represent a great opportunity for fostering collaboration between the UK and continental Europe. Workshop themes reflect areas with exciting recent developments, and span multiple scales of space, time, and complexity, from the detailed workings of the molecular architecture of life, to the emergence and organisation of the complex webs of ecosystems at various trophic levels.

The meeting is rooted in the realisation that understanding the evolution of life and the complexities of ecology requires a variety of perspectives, from the physicochemical approaches of systems biology to the broad perspective of macroevolution, and that mathematics and computer science provide a common language for dialogue across these diverse vantage points.

Special themes are covered by a number of mini-symposia that have been proposed.