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Howard (Howie) Weiss
Professor of Mathematics

Office:
108E Skiles Building
School of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332

Telephone:  404 385 2134 (with voicemail, but email is more reliable)
eFax:   509 692 4516
E-mail:   weiss at math.gatech.edu
OHs:    M 9, F 10, or by appointment


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SPRING 2010 TEACHING:          Math 3770: Statistics and Applications

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         Math 8833: Population Dynamics (2007)

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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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VISITING THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS

The following two links contain useful information for visitors:

  • Directions to Georgia Tech School of Mathematics
  • CNS visitor information (beware that CNS is located in the Physics building, a 7 minute walk from the Math building.
  • Good map showing math building (Skiles) and visitor parking lots