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Howard (Howie) Weiss Professor of Mathematics Office:
Telephone: 404 385 2134 (with voicemail, but email is more reliable) |
SPRING 2010 TEACHING:
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematical Biology and Nonlinear Dynamics
I work with bioscientists to create mathematical models to study how populations change and how infectious diseases are transmitted through a population. We take a mechanistic, multiscale "systems biology" approach to modeling. As a mathematician, I also analyze the dynamics of such models, always searching for new mathematics (which I frequently find). Current group research projects include modeling the fish biomass structure at coral reefs and studying the how fishing degrades a reef, modeling the transmission of an infectious disease mediated by a water reservoir (e.g., cholera), modeling competition and growth of bacterial colonies on surfaces, and modeling the competition of flu viruses.
Some of my recent publications are available here.
``Mathematics is biology's next microscope, only better. Biology is mathematics' next
physics, only better.'' (Joel Cohen)
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