Week of Events
Applied Math Talk: Approaches to modeling dispersal and swarm behavior at multiple scales given by Prof. Christopher Strickland ( The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Applied Math Talk: Approaches to modeling dispersal and swarm behavior at multiple scales given by Prof. Christopher Strickland ( The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Biological invasions often have outsized consequences for the invaded ecosystem and represent an interesting challenge to model mathematically. Landscape heterogeneity, non-local or time-dependent spreading mechanisms, coarse data, and air or water flow transport are but a few of the complications that can greatly affect our understanding of small organism movement – a critical component of […]
Graph coloring reconfiguration systems (Prateek Bhakta, University of Richmond)
Graph coloring reconfiguration systems (Prateek Bhakta, University of Richmond)
For k >= 2, the k-coloring graph C(G) of a base graph G has a vertex set consisting of the proper k-colorings of G with edges connecting two vertices corresponding to two different colorings of G if those two colorings differ in the color assigned to a single vertex of G. A base graph whose […]
Christopher Strickland: Modeling the prescription opioid epidemic
Christopher Strickland: Modeling the prescription opioid epidemic
Opioid addiction has become a national health crisis in recent years, with involvement in 66% of all drug overdose deaths in 2016 and high economic costs. In contrast to the dynamics of a classic disease or illicit drug epidemic, opioid addiction has its roots in legal, prescription medication - a fact which greatly increases the […]
GEMS Workshop: The Mathematics of Reapportionment and Census Data with Professor Adolfo Rumbos of Pomona College
GEMS Workshop: The Mathematics of Reapportionment and Census Data with Professor Adolfo Rumbos of Pomona College
TOPIC: The Mathematics of Reapportionment and Census Data Every ten years, the United States Census Bureau conducts a count of all persons living in the United States; one of those population counts will be carried out this year (2020). This Census is mandated by the US Constitution; it counts all people residing in the United […]