Short course funded by NIH on      (location 4th floor UT Conference Center)

	OPTIMAL CONTROL THEORY IN APPLICATION TO BIOLOGY
	
Wednesday,  July 9
9:00 - 10:00  	Suzanne Lenhart,  Introductory lecture

10:15 - 11:00 	Suzanne Lenhart, Working Simple Examples 

11:15 - 12:15    Lab -  examples without bounds (SL, John)

lunch at conference center

1:30 - 2:30    	Renee Fister,  Introduce bounds and terminal conditions

2:45 - 3:45  	Lab - examples with bounds (Joshi, John)

4:00 - 5:00  	Renee Fister,  Introduce systems

5:10 - 6:00  	Renee Fister,  Examples of systems

dinner at conference center


Thursday, July 10
9:00 - 9:40  	Hem Raj Joshi, Optimal Control of an HIV Immunology Model   

9:50 - 11:00    Lab - examples with systems (SL, John)

11:20 -12:10    Suzanne Lenhart, Miscellaneous ideas

lunch at conference center

1:30 - 2:15    Beginning of group projects
           four groups -leaders Joshi, Renee, Suzanne, Rene

2:30 - 4:00   Lab on group projects

4:10 - 4:50   Holly Gaff, Application to Tick-borne Disease

5:00 - 5:40   Rene Salinas, Managing Bears in the Smoky Mountains

dinner at conference center


Friday  July 11
9:00 - 10:15 	Report on projects

10:30 - 11:20   Suzanne Lenhart, Bang-bang controls 

11:30 - 12:10 	Renee Fister, Examples of bang - bang 

lunch at conference center
**optional afternoon outing to Smoky Mountain, Big Creek(including dinner)


Saturday, July 12
8:30 - 10:00   Phil Crowley, Simple and complex models of overgrowth competition

10:15 - 10:55   Scott Duke-Sylvester, Two optimization applications:
					Tuberculosis and Lygodium

11:05 - 12:00  	Suzanne Lenhart,  PDE control examples

12:10 - 12:25   Evaluations  followed by lunch at conference center