Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the year

The year 2011 was marked by the following events:

• The edition of 6 volumes of the journal MMNP (Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena) on the following topics: Instability and patterns (dedicated to A. Golovin), Modelling of plant growth, Computational aerodynamics, Granular hydrodynamics, Complex fluids, Biomathematics Education (for more details see http://www.mmnp-journal.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MNP ).

• The co-organization of a monthly seminar (INRIabcd, every last friday), jointly with INRIA team BEAGLE, and the organization of a seminar on biomathematics (on thursday, twice a month).

• Organization of the international conference "Chance at the heart of the cell" (http://cgphimc.univ-lyon1.fr/CGPHIMC/CHC2 ), Lyon, 21-23 november 2011.