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Khaled Furati
KFUPM
Saudi Arabia
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May 22 - July 23, 2012
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Khaled is interested in fractional
differential equations and flow in porous media.
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Matthew Hitchings
University of Oxford
MSc Student
UK
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May 21 - Sept 30, 2012
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Harsh Jain
Ohio State University
USA
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May 20 - June 22, 2012
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Harsh is interested in the
modeling and simulation of nonlinear dynamical systems, and studying the
mathematical problems arising from these models. Specifically, Harsh works on
applying a variety of modeling techniques including ordinary, delay and partial
differential equations, stochastic processes, agent-based methods, as well as
numerical methods for simulating these models, to modeling vascular and
avascular cancer growth and treatment, as well as wound healing.
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Samuel Isaacson
Boston University
USA
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May 19 - June 1, 2012
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Samuel’s research interests are in the areas of numerical
analysis, mathematical biology, and mathematical physics, with an
emphasis on
the development and the numerical analysis of methods for studying
problems in
molecular cell biology. Samuel
is especially interested
in the numerical analysis of schemes for solving systems of partial
differential, ordinary differential, and integral equations. Recently,
Samuel’s research has focused on the development, analysis,
numerical approximation, and applications of stochastic as well as
deterministic reaction-diffusion methods appropriate for modeling
biochemical systems at the scale of a single biological cell.
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Xiang Xue
University of Oxford
MSc Student
UK
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May 15 - Sept 30, 2012
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Chin Pang Ho
University of Oxford
MSc Student
UK
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May 15 - Sept 30, 2012
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Chee Fong
University of Oxford
MSc Student
UK
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May 15 - Sept 30, 2012
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David Edwards
University of Delaware
USA
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May 9 - June 1, 2012
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David’s research
involves the use of perturbation methods and asymptotics to study a wide range
of applied phenomena. He is currently studying surface-volume biochemical
reactions, both in the lab and in vivo. In particular, he is
trying to extend the utility of optical biosensors (used to measure rate constants)
to more complicated and biologically realistic systems. In addition,
David is mathematically modeling quantum-dot arrays in an attempt to improve
the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. He is also interested in
mathematical finance and economic modeling.
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Shuohao Liao
University of Oxford
MSc Student
UK
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May 1 - Sept 30, 2012
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Tomás Alarcón
CRM
Spain
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May 1 - June 15, 2012
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Tomás’ research involves
proposing new models relevant to experimental biologists and clinicians and
developing the analytical and computational tools necessary for their analysis.
He pays special
attention to problems with clinical relevance, in particular those related to
cancer. In particular, Tomás’
research activity
is developed along the following lines: multiscale modelling of tumour growth and
tumour-induced angiogenesis, evolutionary dynamics of populations with complex
structure, in particular cell populations with hierarchical structure and
genotype-phenotype map, mathematical modelling of the cell-cycle, stochastic
modelling of receptor tyrosine kynases, tumour dormancy.
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Lucie Bowden
University of Oxford
DTC Student
UK
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Apr 30 - Jul 13, 2012
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Holger Perfahl
University of Stuttgart
Germany
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Apr 22 - June 22, 2012
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Holger’s
research interests are in the fields of multiscale modeling of angiogenesis and
vascular tumour growth, as well as applications to therapy. He works on the
numerical implementation and analysis of agent-based tissue models that couple
biological processes on various length- and time-scales. These models
incorporate ordinary and partial differential equations, as well as rule-based
models and Monte Carlo methods.
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Faizal Mir
Self-Funded
India
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Mar 30 - Dec 31, 2012
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Faizal is at present working on the process of solidification of
liquids. In particular, Faizal is studying certain interesting patterns
that form in freezing ground at many
places on Earth and even on Mars. This phenomenon is being analysed
using both
linear and non-linear stability analysis. Faizal has worked in the past
on
different applications of quantum field theory, ranging from quantum
gravity to
M-theory. At present along with working on these applications of
quantum
field theory, Faizal has also started to work on the application of
quantum field
theory to the brain.
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Stefan Hellander
Uppsala University
Sweden
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Mar 17 - June 16, 2012
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Stefan’s
research concerns the development of efficient and accurate methods for
simulating stochastic reaction-diffusion processes in living cells, and in
particular methods for simulating such systems on the microscale
as well as multiscale
methods coupling micro- and mesoscale simulations.
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Linda Cummings
New Jersey Institute of Technology
USA
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Jan 1 - June 30, 2012
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Linda works
on modelling and analysing a variety of
physically-motivated free boundary problems, mostly fluid-dynamical in nature,
many of which arise in industrial or biological applications. On the
biological side, current
projects include studies of fluid flow, nutrient transport and cell growth in
tissue engineering applications; current industrially-relevant projects include
modelling and analysis of "bistable" nematic liquid crystal display devices and the
flow of thin liquid films (both Newtonian and non-Newtonian). She also works on
classical low Reynolds number free boundary flows, such as Stokes flows and Hele-Shaw
flows. Mathematical approaches include complex analysis, and asymptotic and
numerical methods.
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Stephen Wilson
University of Strathclyde
UK
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Jan 1 - June 30, 2012
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Stephen is interested in a using mathematics to
understand a wide range of "real world" problems in fluid mechanics,
and is currently working on a variety of different problems including (but not
limited to) evaporation of nanofluids, thermovisosity effects, lubrication of
the human knee, fluid layers in the presence of an external air flow and
thixotropic fluids as well as rigid and elastic plates lubrication on a thin
fluid film and thin films of liquid crystals.
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Colin Please
University of Southampton
UK
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Sept 21, 2009 – Sept 30, 2012
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Colin is interested in the creation of differential equations models to
represent industrial and biological problems. His current main
interests are in the electrical properties of solar cells and batteries
including thin-film polymer solar cells, and the fluid dynamics
associated with tear films and their break-up during blinking. He has a
long-standing interest in study groups and is keen to encourage these
activities nationally, internationally, industrially, biologically and
in other directions.
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Shiva Rudraraju
University of Michigan
USA
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May 13 - Aug 10, 2012
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Shiva’s research draws from nonlinear mechanics,
materials physics, and numerical methods. His primary interest is in
mathematical and computational modeling of coupled physical phenomena in
biology involving mechanics and transport. He also works extensively on
fracture prediction and propagation in composite materials.
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Rebecca Allen
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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May 28 - July 27, 2012
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Rebecca is interested
in modeling the transport of CO2 through water, for the purposes of CO2 storage
in saline aquifers. In particular, she is interested in using the Lattice
Boltzmann machinery that was developed at OCCAM (REE1) for simulation, and
comparing these results to other results that were obtained using a finite
difference method. Further interest includes studying the physics of the
density-driven convection that appears in CO2 storage modeling.
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Zi Chen
Princeton
USA
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May 31 - June 1, 2012
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Zi is investigating how one-dimensional information coded in DNA translates
into three-dimensional shapes, and how genetic and epigenetic factors
coordinate to create biological form (morphogenesis). He is also interested in novel design principles for
programmable nanofabrication techniques and bio-mimetic devices.
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Luis Dorfmann
Tufts University
USA
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June 1 - Nov 30, 2012
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Luis is interested in
mathematical formulations to model the mechanical response of nonlinear elastic
materials capable of large deformations. Specifically, he and his students are
conducting research on the mechanics of elastic and inelastic rubberlike solids,
in which the main focus is the development of constitutive theories to describe
the mechanical behavior. Of special interests are inelastic effects such as
stress softening, residual strains and the theory of pseudo-elasticity to
account of the changes in material properties. Since 1994 an important theme has
been the behavior of materials that rapidly change their mechanical properties
by the application of an external electric or magnetic field. He is interested
in constitutive models, which account for the finite deformation of highly
deformable materials in the presence of an electromagnetic field and for the
strong nonlinear coupling between electromagnetic and mechanical effects.
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Garegin Papoian
University of Maryland
USA
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June 3 - 16, 2012
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Garyk uses
advanced computational methods, based on theoretical physical chemistry, to
study biological processes at multiple scales, from single protein functional
dynamics and chromatin folding and stability to cell-level processes, such as
cell motility: 1) Cell motility plays a key role in human biology and disease,
contributing ubiquitously to such important processes as embryonic development,
wound repair and cancer metastasis. Garyk is interested in gaining deeper
understanding of the physical chemistry behind these complex,
far-from-equilibrium mechano-chemical processes. His approach is
based on combining stochastic reaction-diffusion treatment of cellular
biochemical processes with polymer physics of cytoskeletal filament network
growth, while explicitly coupling chemistry and mechanics. 2) The total length
of DNA in each eukaryotic cell can reach 2 m, however, it must be housed in a micrometer
size cell. This staggering six orders of magnitude compaction is achieved by
wrapping DNA around protein octamers called histones, which then further fold
into higher order chromatin structures. Garyk is interested in developing physico-chemical
computational models to study the chromatin folding and dynamics using
atomistic and coarse-grained approaches.
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Huda Ibeid
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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June 4 - Aug 3, 2012
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Huda's research interests
include fast algorithms for particle-based simulations, fast algorithms on
parallel computers and GPUs, design of parallel numerical algorithms, parallel
programming models and performance optimizations for heterogeneous GPU-based
systems.
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Husain Al Attas
KFUPM
Saudi Arabia
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June 6 - Aug 15, 2012
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Xin Zhao
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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June 11 - Aug 17, 2012
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Xin is interested in analysis, numerical PDE and computer
graphics. At Oxford, he will involved in the research on Closest Point Method and parallel computation for this method.
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Anna Lovrics
University of Nottingham
UK
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June 11 - 15, 2012
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Jonathan Robbins
University of Bristol
UK
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June 11 - 15, 2012
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Jonathan's current research interests include
micromagnetics, in particular domain wall propagation in nanowires; liquid
crystals, including biaxial phases and nematic phases in confined geometries;
and quantum graphs, in particular exotic quantum statistics for many-particle
graphs. More generally, his interests
include semiclassical methods in quantum mechanics and continuum models in soft
condensed matter.
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Michael Tabor
University of Arizona
USA
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June 16 - July 1, 2012
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Michael’s
current research interests are focused on continuum mechanics and nonlinear
elasticity with an emphasis on applications to biomedical and biomechanical
problems, including the growth of micro-organisms. He also works on problems in stem cell
biology combining mathematical modelling and experimental work.
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Paul Bressloff
University of Utah
USA
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June 17 - July 1, 2012
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Paul's
research area is mathematical neuroscience. He uses applied mathematics
and non-equilibrium statistical physics to understand how the brain
functions as a complex dynamical system at multiple spatial and temporal
scales, both in healthy and diseased brains.
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David Ketcheson
KAUST
Saudi Arabia
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June 18 - Aug 31, 2012
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David's research interests are in the areas of numerical analysis and hyperbolic PDEs.
His work includes development of efficient time integration methods, wave
propagation algorithms, and modeling of wave phenomena in heterogeneous media.
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Amina Eladdadi
College of Saint Rose
USA
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July 1 - 14, 2012
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Amina's interest is
in multidisciplinary research at the interface of mathematics and biology. In
particular cancer modeling and the development of multi-scale cancer
simulations using numerical methods, simulation, differential equations and
dynamical systems. Amina is also interested in systems biology of the ErbB
network involved in the deregulation of cell proliferation. Amina's research has
focused on the development of mathematical models of the effects of HER2
over-expression on cell proliferation and cell cycle in breast cancer. Amina is
actively involved in undergraduate research in mathematical biology and its
applications by integrating biology modules in mathematics courses such as
research in mathematics, mathematical modeling, differential equations, and
dynamical systems.
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Marcelo Dias
University of Massachusetts
USA
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July 1 - 29, 2012
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Marcello is a theorist studying elasticity and geometry of soft materials. Marcello works with two
different mechanisms to generate geometric frustration on thin elastic sheets;
isotropic differential growth and folding. The main goal of his research is to
understand how controlled growth and folding patterns can be seen as useful
tools for designing three-dimensional objects from information printed in two
dimensions. Marcello is also interested in questions related to nematic liquid
crystal elastomers undergoing prescribed macroscopic shape changes.
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Krishna Garikipati
University
of Michigan
USA
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July 1 - 21, 2012
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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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Graeme Wake
Massey University,
New Zealand
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July 8 - 26, 2012
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Graeme's research interests include Industrial Mathematics, Mathematical
Biology, Maths in Agriculture, & Spontaneous Ignition.
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Jorge Canardo
Universidad Politechnica de Cataluna
Spain
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July 9 - Sept 7, 2012
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Alex Arenas
Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Spain
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July 16 - Aug 1, 2012
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Alex’
research is related to the understanding of physics of complex systems. He is
specially interested in the relation between topology and functionality
in complex networks. In particular, Alex' research activity focus on the
mesoscopic description of networks at the multiscale. The results of his
research are especially relevant in social sciences, biological sciences and
technology. The mathematical modeling of multi-layer, time dependent, structure
of complex networks is one of the main goals of his current research activity.
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Stuart Thomson
University of Glasgow
UK
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July 28 - Sept 28, 2012
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Giles Richardson
University of Southampton
UK
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Sept 1 - Aug 31, 2012
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