Monday, July 13
MS17
Mathematical Biology
Sponsored by Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 2130
This minisymposium will feature applications of mathematics in biological scenarios. Most of the applications involve ordinary or partial differential equations, governing populaton models. Examples of epidemic and immunology models will be included.
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 2:00 A Mathematical Model of Malaria Transmission
- Meghan A. Burke, Kennesaw State University
- 2:30 Mathematical Models for the Disease Dynamics of TB
- Zhilian Feng, Purdue University
- 3:00 Modeling the Metadynamics of Lymphocyte Repertoires
- Ramit Mehr, Princeton University
- 3:30 Modeling the Swimming Behaviour of the Medicinal Leech
- Rebecca Tyson, University of Washington; Chris Jordan, University of Colorado, Boulder; and Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
LMH Created: 3/17/98; MMD Updated: 5/27/98