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Arash Yavari
OVF
Georgia Institute of Technology
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May 15 - July 15, 2013
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Arash's research interests include solid mechanics in small scales; ferroelectrics; lattice theories of solids; geometric mechanics; configurational forces; and fracture mechanics.
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Santiago Schnell
OVF
University of Michigan
USA
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May 13 - 17, 2013
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Santiago investigates physiological systems comprising many interacting components, where modeling and theory may aid in the identification of the key mechanisms underlying the behavior of the system as a whole. His research group's research is currently focused in four areas: (1) Mechanism and regulation of protein folding, translocation and processing; (2) Methods for modeling reactions under physiological conditions; (3) Molecular mechanisms of pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction in diabetes; and (4) Morphogenesis of the intestine.
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Joanne Dunster
STV
University of Reading
UK
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May 13 - 24, 2013
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Joanne's research focusses on formulating and analysing mathematical models that describe problems in the life sciences and medicine. Models she has built are studied using a variety of techniques including singular-perturbation methods, bifurcation theory and numerical methods in order to elucidate the physiological mechanisms. She finds the cross-disciplinary nature of her research particularly interesting and enjoy seeking sufficient knowledge of the underlying biology to produce models that are physically meaningful.
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Maria Aguareles
OVF
University of Girona
Spain
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May 12 - 25, 2013
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Maria's research is based on Partial Differential equations. In particular in reaction-diffusion equations, interaction and dynamics of topological singularities like vortices or spiral waves in oscillatory and excitable systems, and asymptotic methods for partial differential equations. She is also interested in mathematical modelling in physics and industry.
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Doireann O'Kiely
MSc13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - Sep 6, 2013
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Doireann is working on the 'The Onset of Menisci' project.
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Emma Naden
MSc13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - Sep 30, 2013
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Emma is working on the 'Fully anisotropic diffusion on surfaces and
applications in image processing' project.
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Alex Erlich
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - July 19, 2013
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Alex is working on the 'Mathematical modelling of seashell morphology
and ornamentation' project.
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Michael Boemo
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - July 19, 2013
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Michael is working on the 'Modelling
the efficacy of cytotoxic combination therapy of hypoxic tumour spheroids' project.
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Kathryn Atwell
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - July 19, 2013
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Kathryn is working on the 'Mathematical
modelling
of surgical wound infections' project.
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Marcin Paczkowski
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - Oct 14, 2013
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Marcin is working on the ''Multiscale modeling of
intracellular calcium dynamics' project, and the 'Chemotherapy-induced
tumour
reoxygenation' project.
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Robert Ross
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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May 6 - July 19, 2013
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Robert will be working on the 'Stochastic spatio-temporal modelling of the Min
system in E. Coli' project.
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Hoang Vu Nguyen
STV
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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May 6 - 17, 2013
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Vu's research involves the saltation
process of desert sand particles.
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Michael
Koepf
OVP
Israel Institute of Technology
Israel
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May 6 - Jul 31, 2013
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Michael works on problems from biophysics, soft matter, and complex
fluids. Curently, he is interested in the growth and development of
biological systems like epithelial tissues during wound healing,
bacteria colonies in biofilms, or collectively migrating cells during
embryogenesis.
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Tomislav Pleasa
MSc13
University of Oxford
UK
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Apr 22 - Sep 6, 2013
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Tomislav is working on the 'Bifurcation analysis of stochastic chemical
systems' project.
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Jake Taylor-King
MSc13
University of Oxford
UK
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Apr 22 - Sep 6, 2013
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Jake is working on the 'Collective Behaviour of Interacting Agents: from
Robot Experiments to Theory' project.
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Etienne Couturier
STV
CRNS
France
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Apr 11 - May 31, 2013
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Etienne is currently studying the structure of thin shells coming
from the vegetal world, like pollen grains or some seedpods. He is
looking for analytical or integrable approximation for there isometric
mode of deformation. Etienne also worked on geometrical constrains on
living systems as the link between folds and leaves shapes, and the
influence on gene dosage effect on the organisation of the bacterial
chromosomes.
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Tom Witelski
OVF
Duke University
USA
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April 10 - May 31, 2013
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Tom's research focuses on fluid dynamics for applied
problems and fundamental behaviors. Specific interests include lubrication
models, flows with surfactants, and analysis and computation for singularities
in thin film equations.
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Hudson Borja da Rocha
OSS2013
Ecole Polytechnique
France
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April 9 - July 31, 2013
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Hudson is interested in the mathematical modelling of
mechanical and biological systems. He is also interested in the study of
stability of dynamical systems, in the past he worked on a problem about
vibrational instabilities (Chatter) in turning, optimal control theory and with
the Lyapunov order for real matrices.
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Arthur Geromel-Fischer
OSS2013
Ecole Polytechnique
France
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April 9 - July 31, 2013
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Arthur is interested in finite element simulation, numerical analysis and
mathematical modelling applied to solid mechanics. He is mostly interested in
the macroscopic behavior of structures and how to optirossmize their shape.
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Benoit Darrasse
SFV
Ecole Polytechnique
France
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Apr 8 - July 26, 2013
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Benoit is interested in phenomena which imply surface tension and
capillarity. At OCCAM, he will work on elastocapillarity, which is interaction
between a liquid and a solid at little scales. In the past, he has worked on
colloids of silver nanoparticles.
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Apala Majumdar
OVF
University of Bath
UK
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Jan 1 - Jun 30, 2013
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Apala Majumdar, broadly speaking, works on mathematical modelling
in materials science and industrial applied mathematics. Her main areas of work
are : mathematical foundations of liquid crystal theory, theory of defects in
condensed matter systems and modelling of liquid crystal displays in
collaboration with industry. More generally, she also works on variational
problems in related areas e.g. nonlinear elasticity, colloidal systems and
nanoparticle systems.
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Duck-Gyu Lee
SFV
Seoul National University
South Korea
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Nov 27, 2012 - Nov 26, 2013
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Duck-Gyu is interested in the surface tension
dominated phenomena which span from nature to industrial applications. His previous topics include propulsion mechanism of
water walking insects and theoretical analysis of a microliquid prim actuated by electrowetting.
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Giles Richardson
OVF
University of Southampton
UK
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Sept 1, 2012 - Aug 31, 2013
(occasional days throughout this period)
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Giles' research interests lie in the development and analysis of
mathematical models of physical and biological systems. Recently I have
become particularly interested in electrochemistry and semiconductor
physics. These fields not only have mathematical similarities but also
have a wide range of applications ranging from solar cell and battery
design to the propagation of electrical signals in the heart and nervous
system. My other current research interests include population ecology,
the lymphatic system and the elastic behaviour of biological membranes.
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John King
OVF
University of Nottingham
UK
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June 19, 2012 - Sept 30, 2013
(occasional days throughout this period)
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John is interested in multiscale problems in biology,
medicine and industry. Current work focusses on asymptotic (including
exponential-asymptotic) methods and on specific applications in biology
involving gene-regulatory processes and tissue growth.
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Upcoming OCCAM Visitors
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Andrew Barker
STV
Louisiana State University
USA
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June 10 - 18, 2013
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Andrew's primary research interests are in the area of preconditioning and scientific computing. In particular he has worked on domain decomposition preconditioners for the simulation of blood flow in human arteries, and on the analysis and design of preconditioners for discontinuous Galerkin discretizations. He is currently working on
parallel numerical schemes for PDE-constrained optimization problems.
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Yichao Zhu
OVF
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
China
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June 11 - July 10, 2013
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Yichao's research is built around the understanding of the
mechanical properties of crystalline materials at various scales, in particular,
how the crystal plasticity is determined collectively by microstructures.
Besides, the development in the mathematical methodologies, which originate
from the multiple-scale materials modelling is also of interest to him.
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Alan McKane
OVF
University of Manchester
UK
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June 13 - July 13, 2013
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Alan's general area of research is the study of non-equilibrium systems
that originate in a broad range of disciplines in the physical.
biological and social sciences. He uses the tools and techniques of
non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of stochastic
processes to analyse these systems. He is particularly interested in the
often surprising and unexpected effects of noise that are found in such
systems.
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Rio Yokota
STV
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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June 15 - 18, 2013
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Rio
is interested in using fast multipole methods (FMM) for high performance
computing as a scalable Poisson solver, and compute-bound preconditioner. His
collaboration with OCCAM focuses on the use of FMM as a preconditioner for
Krylov subspace methods. He also works on molecular dynamics, boundary element
methods, and radial basis functions.
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Krishna Garikipati
STV
University of Michigan
USA
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June 25 - Jul 2, 2013
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Krishna’s research
draws from nonlinear
mechanics, materials physics, applied mathematics and numerical methods.
He is particularly interested in
problems of mathematical biology, biophysics and the mechanics of
biology.
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Michelle Hine
OSS2013
University of Arizona
USA
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June 28 - Aug 28, 2013
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Steve Ruuth
OVF
Simon Fraser University
Canada
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June 30 - July 6, 2013
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Steve’s research is in numerical methods for partial differential
equations. He focuses on numerical methods for PDEs on surfaces,
time-stepping methods for PDEs, and methods for interfacial dynamics.
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Jonathan Vande Geest
OVF
University of Arizona
USA
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Jul 1 - Sept 30, 2013
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Jonathan's interests are in identifying structure function
relationships in soft tissues, with a particular interest in the growth
and remodeling of tissues in cardiovascular and ocular disease. Some of his most
recent work is focused on developing novel approaches to characterize
and model
abnormal ocular development.
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Ralf Metzler
OVF
University of Potsdam
Germany
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July 1- 28, 2013
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Jun Lu
OSS2013
University of Oxford
UK
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Jul 1 - Aug 21, 2013
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Jun is working on the 'Analysis and software for computing on surfaces' project.
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Rebecca Allen
KSS13
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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Jul 6 - 21, 2013
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Rebecca is working on the 'Lattice Boltzmann modelling of pore-scale flows' project.
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Scott Tsai
OVF
Ryerson University
Canada
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July 11 - 20, 2013
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Scott’s work focuses on the separation of
paramagnetic particles in microfluidic devices and the
interplay of magnetic and capillary forces acting on paramagnetic particles at
fluid-fluid interfaces.
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Santiago Arango
OSS2013
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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July 22 - Aug 30, 2013
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Santiago's is working on the 'Desert landforms and coastal geomorphology' project.
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Will Smith
DTC13
University of Oxford
UK
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July 22 - Oct 4, 2013
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Will is working on the 'Chemotherapy-induced
tumour
reoxygenation:
determining the cause?' project.
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Peter Swain
OVF
University of Edinburgh
UK
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July 27 - Aug 24, 2013
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Nicolas Wilkins
OSS2013
University of Cambridge
UK
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Aug 5 - Sep 15, 2013
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Nicolas is working on the 'Predicting intracranial
pressure following traumatic injury' project.
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James Sneyd
OVF
University of Auckland
New Zealand
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Sept 14 - 28, 2013
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James' interests are in mathematical physiology, cell physiology,
calcium dynamics, calcium oscillations and waves, cellular networks, smooth
muscle physiology, fluid secretion. Overall he is interested in how cells work,
and how they interact with one another via signalling messengers.
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David Abrahams
OVF
University of Manchester
UK
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TBC
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