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<p>Dear QSB grads,</p>
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<p>A quick note to let you know that Alan Hastings is our seminar speaker tomorrow, and there will be a grad student lunch in room SSM 212 from 12-1. Please contact Taran Rallings if you're interested in attending: <span>trallings@gmail.com.</span> You're welcome
to show up regardless, but note that space is limited (I think the room holds only ~14 people). </p>
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<p>Alan is one of the founding fathers of theoretical ecology, and is a really nice guy. He is also a MacArthur Award recipient, which is the 'Nobel Prize' for Ecology. I've pasted his bio below:</p>
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<p><span>Alan Hastings is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. Hastings is a theoretical ecologist, recognized for his work on dynamics of ecological populations and for his
theoretical work on questions of applied interest including management using marine reserves and control of invasive species. Hastings received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics in 1973 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1977 from Cornell University.
He was an assistant professor of Mathematics at Washington State University from 1977-1979 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis in 1979. He has published almost 300 journal articles and co-edited the Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology
and is founding editor in chief of the journal Theoretical Ecology. Hastings is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ecological
Society of America and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He received the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America in 2006.</span> </p>
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Assistant Professor (starting 2016),</p>
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School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced;</p>
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Omidyar Fellow,</p>
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Santa Fe Institute</p>
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<a href="http://jdyeakel.github.io/" id="LPNoLP" title="http://jdyeakel.github.io Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link">http://jdyeakel.github.io</a></p>
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