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Named/special lectures


  • 1st Nieuwland Lecture in Applied Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Nov 8 2001

  • The Fourth Whittaker Lecture, School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh, May 5th 2003

  • Tewkesbury Bequest Seminar, School of Engineering, University of Melbourne, Dec 1, 2008

  • Invited Sectional Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India, Aug 19-27, 2010

  • Naylor Lecture, London Mathematical Society, 19 Nov, 2010

  • Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lectures in Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, April 11-12, 2011

  • Cissy Patterson Lecture, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary, April 15, 2011

  • Inaugural Lecture, la Academia Mexica de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico City, Feb 8, 2011

  • Walker-Ames Scholar Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, April 16, 2012

  • PIMS Distinguished Speaker, University of Victoria, Canada, April 19, 2012

  • Charles Edison Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Feb 14, 2013

  • Helen Barton Lecture Series in Mathematical Sciences, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, March 24 - 27, 2014

  • Maxwell Colloquium, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, February 10th, 2015

  • Inaugural Monash Engineering Distinguished Lecture, Monash University, Australia, September 14th, 2015

  • Michigan Mathematics Alexander Ziwet Lectures, Department of Mathematics, March 8th, 2016

  • Michigan Mathematics Alexander Ziwet Lectures, Center for Systems Biology, March 9th, 2016

  • Michigan Mathematics Alexander Ziwet Lectures, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, March 10th, 2016

  • Dan E. Christie Lecture, Mathematics Department, Bowdoin College, March 28th, 2016

  • Plenary Lecture, XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe 2016, Corfu, June 6-10, 2016

  • October 7th, 2016, Ordway Lecture, Applied and Computational Math Colloquium, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  • February 6th, 2017, Millican Colloquium, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

  • March 15th, 2017, Inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Mathematical Biology, University of California, Riverside

  • April 18th, 2017, The Mathematics and Statistics Distinguished Lecture Series; Inaugural Sneddon Lecturer, University of Glasgow

  • July 17th-20th, 2017: Winfree Prize Talk, SMB 2017 Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah

  • The Mathematical Biosciences Institute Online Colloquium, March 21, 2018

  • Keynote Lecture, BIOMS Symposium 2018, University of Heidelberg, October 1-2, 2018

  • Plenary Lecture, Royal Society and French Academy of Sciences: UK-France bilateral international meeting, Chicheley Hall, February 20-21, 2019

  • April 29th, 2021 Alan Turing Lecture, Alan Turing Digital Event 2021, King's College, University of Cambridge

  • Professor Mieczyslaw Chorazy Lecture 2022, XXVI Gliwice Scientific Meetings, Gliwice, Poland, 18-19 Nov, 2022

  • AAAS-AMS Invited Address, JMM (Joint Mathematical Meetings), Boston, USA, 4-7 Jan, 2023

  • June 28th, 2023: IMA Gold Medal Lecture

  • Sibe Mardesic Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, 18th March 2024

  • BioMaths Colloquium Series 2023/24, Centre for Biomathematics, University of Swansea

    Plenaries, Keynotes etc.


  • Plenary Speaker, 13th Conference on Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, University of Dundee, June 25-28, 1996

  • SGI Israel sponsored plenary speaker, The Israeli Society for Theoretical and Mathematical Biology (ISTMB) Annual Meeting, March, 25 2002

  • Keynote Presentation, Modelling Cellular Function, Auckland, July 14-18, 2003

  • Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Mathematical Biology 2003 (SMB annual meeting), Dundee, August 6-9, 2003

  • Keynote presentation, ``Biomat 2005'', II International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, Petropolis, Brazil, December 3-8, 2005

  • Plenary Lecture, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, University of Washington, Seattle, Sept 9-12, 2006

  • Distinguished Lecture Series (Center Math. Comp. Biol., and Center Complex Biol. Sys.), UC Irvine, May 1, 2007

  • Plenary Lecture, 4th International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Wuyishan, China, May 29-June 1, 2007

  • Plenary Lecture, 4th International Worshop for Korean Women in Mathematics: ``Mathematics for the 21st Century Science'', POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, July 5, 2007

  • Keynote Lecture, International Conference on Mathematical Biology, Putrajaya, Malaysia, Sept 4-6, 2007

  • Invited (Plenary) Lecture, 2007 Frontiers in the Convergence of Bioscience and Information Technologies (FBIT 2007), Oct 11-13, 2007 Jeju Island, Korea

  • Opening Keynote Lecture, 3rd Int Conf, Brazilian Assoc for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (X-meeting 2007), Sao Paulo, Nov, 2007

  • Main Speaker, International Workshop on Trends in Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Modena, Italy, 29-30 Nov, 2007

  • Keynote Speaker, Symposium on Systems Biology, Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, Marseille, France, July 7-9, 2008

  • Invited Lecture, ANZIAM 2009, Caloundra, Queensland, Feb 1-5, 2009

  • Plenary Lecture, SANUM 2009, Stellenbosch University, April 6-8, 2009

  • Principal Lecture, 8th Annual Miss State-UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, Starkville, Mississippi, May 7-9, 2009

  • Plenary Speaker, First International Conference on the Mathematical Sciences, University of Buea, Cameroon, May 12-16, 2009

  • Keynote Lecture, Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the Chinese Society for Mathematical Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, June 14-17, 2009

  • Plenary Lecture, CEDYA (XXI Congresso de Ecuaciones Diferenciales y Aplicaciones, XI Congreso de Matematica Aplicada), Ciudad Real, Spain, Sept 20-25, 2009

  • Keynote Lecture, Computational Life Sciences (NWO Holland), CWI, Amsterdam, Nov 6, 2009

  • Principal (BAMC) Speaker, Maths 2010 (joint BMC/BAMC meeting), Edinburgh, April 6-9, 2010

  • Keynote Lecture, Frontiers in Mathematical Biology: NSF-NIH PIs Meeting 2010, University of Maryland, April 26-27

  • Keynote Lecture, GMU-WM 2011 Workshop on Undergraduate Research in Computational Mathematics, College of William and Mary, USA, April 16, 2011

  • Plenary Lecture, The 5th Geoffrey J. Butler Memorial Conference on Differential Equations and Population Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, July 25-30, 2011

  • Keynote Lecture, Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology 2011: Linking Models With Ecological Processes, University of Essex, Sept 19-21, 2011

  • Opening Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Pune, India, Jan 23-27, 2012

  • Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Applied Mathematics 2012: Modeling, Analysis & Computation, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, May 28-June 1, 2012

  • Plenary Speaker, International Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Biological Process, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, Sept 3-7, 2012

  • Main Speaker, II Workshop: Mathways into Cancer, Carmona, Sevilla, Spain, May 27-30, 2013

  • Plenary Lecture, 2013 Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences(AARMS) Mathematical Biology Workshop, Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland, July 27-29, 2013

  • Plenary Lecture, 2nd Aachen Conference on Computational Engineering Science (AC.CES), RWTH Aachen University, Sept 9-11, 2013

  • Opening Plenary Lecture, Grenoble Interdisciplinary Days 2013, Domaine Universitaire, Sept 26-27, 2013

  • Opening Keynote Lecture, Gulf International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Gulf University of Science and Technology, Kuwait, Nov 19-21, 2013

  • Plenary Lecture, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Orlando, Florida, Dec 7-10, 2013

  • Invited Keynote Lecture, 10th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, July 7-11, 2014

  • Principal Lecture, 10th Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, Mississippi State University, Oct 23-25, 2014

  • Plenary Lecture, Application of Ecological and Mathematical Theory to Cancer: New Challenges, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, South Korea, May 12-15, 2014

  • Keynote Lecture, Advances in Nonlinear PDEs: Analysis, Numerics, Stochastics, Applications, TU Wein, Austria, June 2-3, 2014*

  • Plenary Lecture, 18th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry (ECMI 2014), Taormina, Sicily, June 9-13, 2014*

  • Invited Keynote Lecture, 10th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, July 7-11, 2014

  • Principal Lecture, 10th Differential Equations & Computational Simulations, Mississippi State University, October 23-25, 2014

  • Opening Plenary Lecture, 3-Day Lecture Programme on Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Dept of Mathematics, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, April 2-4, 2015

  • Guest Plenary Speaker, ``POEMS workshop'', University College London, May 13-14, 2015

  • Plenary Lecture, Mathematical Methods in Systems Biology (MMSB), University College Dublin, June 15-18, 2015

  • Keynote Lecture, Modern Drug Development - a Multi-scale Approach, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, November 18, 2016

  • Plenary Lecture, Mathematics of Complex Systems: From Precision Medicine to Smart Cities, CoLAB, Workshop, University of Coimbra, Portugal December 5-6, 2016

  • Plenary Lecture, Modelling Biological Evolution 2017: Developing Novel Approaches, University of Leicester, April 4-7, 2017

  • Keynote Lecture, Natal Bioinformatics Forum, Natal, Brazil, April 15-17, 2019

  • Plenary Lecture, Second International Conference on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences (AMNS-2019), Pokhara, Nepal, June 27-30, 2019

  • Invited Speaker, 17th International Conference of Numerical Analysis and ]Applied Mathematics (ICNAAM 2019), Rhodes, Greece, Sept 23-28, 2019

  • Plenary Lecture, International Conference: Mathematical Modelling in Biomedicine, RUDN University, Moscow Sept 30-Oct 4, 2019

  • Keynote Lecture, CriTiCS Workshop: The challenges of multi-scale integration in Biology, University of Luxembourg, November 7-8, 2019

  • Opening Plenary Lecture, 3rd International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (AUS-ICMS'20), American University of Sharjah, UAE, February 6-9, 2020

  • Distinguished Lecture, Online Summer School on Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, July 1-18, 2020

  • Invited Plenary Talk, GCRF-EPSRC UK-APASI Program, UK-Africa Postgraduate Study Institute in Mathematical Sciences, Remote Workshop, December 17-18, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker, International E-Conference on ``Recent Advances in Biomathematics'', Bangladesh Society for Mathematical Biology (BSMB), December 18-19, 2020

  • Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biology (ICCMB 2021) ``Mathematical Biology in the Ambience of Dynamical Systems'' (Virtual) July 30-31, 2021

  • Keynote Speaker, BIOMAT 2021 - 21st International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (Virtual) November 1-5, 2021

  • International Keynote, ``Mathematics of Tissue Dynamics'', MATRIX Research Program, Melbourne, Australia (online presentation) May 30 - June 3, 2022

  • Keynote Lecture, Mathematical Biology on the Mediterranean Conference (MBMC-3),FORTH, Crete, Sept 5-6, 2022

  • Inaugural Address, International Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Modeling and Computational Intelligence - 2022 (ICMSMCI-2022), Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India (online presentation) Sept 29-30, 2022

  • Keynote Speaker, BIOMAT 2022 – 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (online), Nov 7-11, 2022

  • Keynote Speaker (online), Frontiers of Mathematical Biology: A workshop honouring Professor Edmund Crampin, The School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Nov 14-16, 2022

  • Keynote Speaker, PFN 2023 6th Yamada Symposium on ``Diversity of Biological Patterns and Forms in Nature: Toward a Comprehensive Understanding'',

  • Plenary Lecture, London Mathematical Biology Conference, University College London, Sept 18-19, 2023

  • Keynote Speaker, BIOMAT 2023 - 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology (online), Nov 6-9, 2023

  • Opening Plenary Lecture, Predictive Modeling in Biology and Medicine Conference, University of California, Riverside, Nov 17-19, 2023 (online presentation)

  • Plenary Lecture, Oxford Cancer: Spatial Biology Symposium, University of Oxford, Nov 22, 2023

  • Keynote Lecture, Opening Symposium Bonn University Collaboration with AIMS Ghana: Signalling dynamics in cells and tissues, University Hospital, Bonn, Venusberg-Campus, 11-13 Dec 2023

  • Plenary Lecture, Dynamical Systems and Applications VI, DSA 2024 In honor of Prof. Avner Friedman on his 90th birthday, Lodz University of Technology, Poland, 26-28 June 2024

  • Keynote Address, 3rd International Spatial Biology Congress, The Hague, Netherlands, 11-12 July 2024