Archive: NIMBioS Visitor Calendar 2018

The NIMBioS Visitor Calendar lists all visitors to the institute, including Short-term Visitors, Sabbatical Fellows, Visiting Graduate Student Fellows, and Self-supported Visitors.

Dates	Visitor	Affiliation	Project	Collaborators
December 2018
Aug 17-Dec 16	Luis Melara	Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.	Optimal control models for treatment of eye disease. Seminar: Nov 27, Optimal control of treatments for retinitis pigmentosa	Lenhart
Aug 22-Dec 16	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Epidemiological models that incorporate heterogeneity to study malaria and the opioid crisis. Seminar: Oct 30, Spatial heterogeneity, host movement, and the transmission of mosquito-borne disease	Lenhart
November 2018
Aug 17-Dec 16	Luis Melara	Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.	Optimal control models for treatment of eye disease. Seminar: Nov 27, Optimal control of treatments for retinitis pigmentosa	Lenhart
Aug 22-Dec 16	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Epidemiological models that incorporate heterogeneity to study malaria and the opioid crisis. Seminar: Oct 30, Spatial heterogeneity, host movement, and the transmission of mosquito-borne disease	Lenhart
October 2018
Aug 17-Dec 16	Luis Melara	Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.	Optimal control models for treatment of eye disease. Seminar: Nov 27, Optimal control of treatments for retinitis pigmentosa	Lenhart
Aug 22-Dec 16	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Epidemiological models that incorporate heterogeneity to study malaria and the opioid crisis. Seminar: Oct 30, Spatial heterogeneity, host movement, and the transmission of mosquito-borne disease	Lenhart
September 2018
Aug 17-Dec 16	Luis Melara	Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.	Optimal control models for treatment of eye disease. Seminar: Nov 27, Optimal control of treatments for retinitis pigmentosa	Lenhart
Aug 22-Dec 16	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Epidemiological models that incorporate heterogeneity to study malaria and the opioid crisis. Seminar: Oct 30, Spatial heterogeneity, host movement, and the transmission of mosquito-borne disease	Lenhart
Sep 3-5	Shandelle Henson	Mathematics, Biology, Andrews Univ., Berrien Springs, MI; Editor-in-Chief, Natural Resource Modeling	Seminar: Climate change and tipping points for seabird colonies in the Pacific Northwest
Sep 16-21	Luc Doyen	Director of Research CNRS, GREThA, Univ. of Bordeaux, France		Paul Armsworth
Sep 23-27	Heather Jordan	Biological Sciences, Mississippi State Univ.	Modeling Buruli Ulcer Disease	Lenhart, Edholm, Small
Sep 23-27	Pamela Small	Microbiology (Emeritus), Univ. of Tennessee	Modeling Buruli Ulcer Disease	Lenhart, Edholm, Small
Sep 30-Oct 5	John Jungck	Biological Sciences, Univ. of Delaware	Data science education for biologists; Seminar: Oct 2, Exploring nanobiological structures with 3D nanotomography, 4D printing via self-assembly, and graph theory	Louis Gross, Raina Robeva
Sep 30-Oct 3	Raina Robeva	Mathematics, Sweet Briar College; Director of the Center for Engineering, Science and Technology in Society	Data science education for biologists	Louis Gross, John Jungck
August 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
Jul 23-Aug 8	Yoram Louzoun	Mathematics, Bar Ilan, Israel		Vitaly Ganusov
Jul 23-Aug 9	Tony Jhwueng	Statistics, Feng-Chia Univ.	Investigating a numerical parameter estimation issue in phylogenetic comparative methods	Brian O'Meara
Jul 25-Aug 1	Candice Price	Mathematics, UC San Diego	Developing novel mathematical metrics for studying multi-layer networks influence on animal and human behavior	Nina Fefferman
Aug 3-7	Guihong Fan	Mathematics, Columbus State Univ.	Modeling West Nile Virus	Suzanne Lenhart
Aug 17-Dec 16	Luis Melara	Mathematics, Shippensburg Univ.	Optimal control models for treatment of eye disease	Lenhart
Aug 22-Dec 16	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Epidemiological models that incorporate heterogeneity to study malaria and the opioid crisis	Lenhart
July 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
Jul 4-12	Lisa McManus	Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources, Rutgers Univ.	Modeling fishing-hunting transitions with implications for biodiversity and food security	Charlotte Chang
Jul 4-12	Andrew Tilman	Biology, Univ. of Pennsylvania	Modeling fishing-hunting transitions with implications for biodiversity and food security	Charlotte Chang
Jul 23-Aug 8	Yoram Louzoun	Mathematics, Bar Ilan, Israel		Vitaly Ganusov
Jul 23-Aug 9	Tony Jhwueng	Statistics, Feng-Chia Univ.	Investigating a numerical parameter estimation issue in phylogenetic comparative methods	Brian O'Meara
Jul 25-Aug 1	Candice Price	Mathematics, UC San Diego	Developing novel mathematical metrics for studying multi-layer networks influence on animal and human behavior	Nina Fefferman
June 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
May 2-TBA	Xiangping Liu	Agricultural and Resource Economics, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville	Developing a cost-effective payment system for forest carbon sequestration	Paul Armsworth, Seong-Hoon Cho
May 31-Jun 2	Miguel Acevedo	Biology, University of Puerto Rico	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
May 31-Jun 2	Nick Ruktanonchai	Geography, Univ. of Southhampton	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
May 31-Jun 2	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
Jun 4-30	Simon Carrignon	Barcelona Supercomputing Center	Applying the tools of evolutionary biology to modeling cultural evolution	Alex Bentley, Michael Gilchrist
May 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
May 2-TBA	Xiangping Liu	Agricultural and Resource Economics, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville	Developing a cost-effective payment system for forest carbon sequestration	Paul Armsworth, Seong-Hoon Cho
May 31-Jun 2	Miguel Acevedo	Biology, University of Puerto Rico	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
May 31-Jun 2	Nick Ruktanonchai	Geography, Univ. of Southhampton	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
May 31-Jun 2	Olivia Prosper	Mathematics, Univ. of Kentucky	Spatial complexities in vector-borne disease dynamics	Nourridine Siewe
April 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
March 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
Mar 9-17	Eric Ngang Che	Mathematics, Howard Univ.	Risk structured model of cholera infections in Cameroon	Nourridine Siewe
Mar 12-16	Kokum DeSilva	Mathematics, Univ. of Peradeniya		Suzanne Lenhart
Mar 13-24	Zachary Marion	Biology, Univ. of Nevada, Reno		James Fordyce
Mar 15-22	Frank Hilker	Applied Systems Science, Osnabrück Univ.		Suzanne Lenhart, Danielle Burton
February 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
January 2018
Sep 2017 - Aug 2018	Oyita Udiani	NSF Postdoctoral Fellow	Learning in models of animal behavior: A novel game-theoretical approach	Nina Fefferman
Jan 15-16	Ben Levy	Mathematics, Fitchburg State Univ.	Models of plant and insect communities in Benin	Suzanne Lenhart, Orou Gaoue, and Christina Edholm
Jan 15-27	Sarah Drohan	Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton Univ.	Hunting as an optimal stopping problem in indiscriminate harvesting systems	Charlotte Chang

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