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Howard (Howie) Weiss Professor of Mathematics Office:
Telephone: 404 385 2134 (with voicemail, but email is more reliable) |
FALL 09 TEACHING:
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mathematical biology and nonlinear dynamics
I work with biologists, ecologists, and epidemiologists to create mathematical models to study how populations change and how infectious diseases are transmitted through a population. As a mathematician, I also analyze the dynamics of such models, always searching for new mathematics. I am developing more realistic models of the mixing of populations, including adding realistic spatial structure into population models. A few current research projects include modeling the fish biomass structure at nearly pristine coral reefs, modeling the transmission of an infectious disease mediated by a water reservoir (e.g., cholera), modeling competition and growth of bacteria colonies on surfaces, and developing a new generation of algorithms to estimate the transmission rate of an infectious disease from infection data.
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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