Louis J. Gross

James R. Cox and Alvin and Sally Beaman Distinguished

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics

Director, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

Director, The Institute for Environmental Modeling

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mathematics Department

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1610

Past-President, The Society for Mathematical Biology

Past-President, Faculty Senate, University of Tennessee, Knoxville , here is Past-President's page from 2007-2008, and here is President's page from 2006-2007

NIMBioS - National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

The Institute for Environmental Modeling

Mathematical and Computational Ecology at UTK

Some of my Current Professional Activities - or Why I may not reply to your email immediately!

NEW - Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology, co-edited with Alan Hastings

• Mathematical ecology
• Computational ecology
• Quantitative training for life science students
• Landscape ecology
• Plant physiological ecology
• Photosynthetic dynamics
• Individual-based models
• Parallel computation for ecological models

ATLSS: Across Trophic Level System Simulation for the Everglades/Big Cypress Region of South Florida Page

Fish slides from ATLSS in WCA2A Page

Computational Ecology - Key Open Problems - Contribution to Workshop on Computational Ecology at San Diego Super Computer Center, September, 1995 Text file

Computational Grid - Summary of SInRG computational grid partnership based in UTK Computer Science Department News Release and SInRG Home page is here

Computational Ecology - Article in the Ecological Society of America NewSource June 1999 featuring interview with me Web Page Text version

Mathematical ecology and parallel computing: Biological data on individuals and small groups form basis for simulations of communities of interacting species. Science Alliance News Online Interview.

Individual-based ecological models for spatially-explicit investigation and computational ecology. Handout Third Autumn Workshop on Mathematical Ecology, Trieste, Italy, October 1996. Text file

Use of Biophysical Models for Ecological Assessments: Applications in the Southeastern United States (funded by EPA) Dec. 1996 News report is here )

Parallel Computation and Ecological Models (First Annual summary report to NSF is here and Final Report is here )

QEIB: Spatially-distributed population models with external forcing and spatial control (NSF Award DMS-0110920): (First Annual summary report to NSF is here )

ITR: Parallel and grid computing for ecological multimodeling (NSF Award DEB-0219269) GEM Website

Workshop on Computational Science for Natural Resource Managers Workshop Website

Grid Computing for Ecological Modeling and Spatial Control (NSF Award IIS-0427471) Project Website

Alternative routes to quantitative literacy for life science students Home Page

Quantitative Curriculum for Life Science students Home Page

Short Courses on the Mathematics of Biological Complexity Home Page

Education for Math Biology Resources Home Page

Mathematics Archives Life Science Collection Home Page

MAA Session on Interdisciplinary Programs with Undergraduate Mathematics - Orlando January '96 Home Page

Menstrual Cycling Software - MENSTRUA - a UTK CharityWare Release Home Page

Project Extend Interview with me on the topic: Adopting an Interdisciplinary Paradigm

Interview of me by Barbara Lovitts for the SUNY Stony Brook Reinvention Center project on Math/Biology education linkages Word file

My listing of key quantitative concepts for undergraduate biology students

Math teachers are working a new version of an old problem - excerpt from Minneapolis Star Tribune Nov. 5, 2000 article including an interview with me local archived versionby Sharon Schmickle

AIBS Actionbioscience interview with me on Computational Skills for Biology Students - June 2006

NSF/AAAS Vision and Change website and reports for which I served as co-author and Advisory Committee member - Final Report released February 2011

Individual-based ecological models: Spatial models for undergraduate investigation. Handout for Mathematics for Life Sciences Students Conference, Iowa State University, May 17-18, 1996 Text file

Published WWW version here

Approaches to Large-scale Ecosystem Modeling Across Multiple Trophic Levels: Some Early Lessons from the South Florida ATLSS Experience From: J. B. Waide and L. M. Gandy (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling and Assessment Techniques for Application within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. pp. 71-76, April 1998. Waterways Experiment Station Miscellaneous Paper EL-98-1. Postscript file (40K)

Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the New Millennium Postscript file (124K)

Mentoring in a Distributed World. D-Lib Magazine September 1998 Link to On-Line Editorial

USE OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND MODELS - Draft of article for Encyclopedia of Biodiversity Postscript file Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3

Multimodeling: New approaches for linking ecological models - Draft of article for 1999 Symposium on Predicting Plant and Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy Postscript file Figure 1

Comiskey, E. J., O. L. Bass, Jr., L. J. Gross, R. T. McBride, and R. Salinas. 2002. Panthers and forests in South Florida: an ecological perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 18.

Brewer, C. A. and L. J. Gross. 2003. Training ecologists to think with uncertainty in mind. Ecology 84:1412-1414.

Whither Mathematical Biology? Some Remarks upon becoming President of the Society for Mathematical Biology - August 2003 (Web version of article for Fall 2003 SMB Newsletter)

Some comments on education from the SMB President (Web version of article for January 2004 SMB Newsletter)

Janet H. Rock, Brian Beckage and Louis J. Gross. 2004. Population recovery following differential harvesting of Allium triococcum Ait. in the southern Appalachians. Biological Conservation 116: 227-234. and comments on the impacts of this work in changing harvesting regulations is in this issue of "A Walk in the Woods" from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"Some lessons from fifteen years of educational initiatives at the interface between mathematics and biology: the entry-level course" for MAA Notes volume on Undergraduate Mathematics for the Life Sciences (pdf document)

"Fuller, M.M., L.J. Gross, S.M. Duke-Sylvester and M. Palmer. 2008. Testing the robustness of management decisions to uncertainty: Everglades restoration scenarios. Ecological Applications 18(3):711-723" (pdf document)

Appendix A: Management Background and description of model parameters (pdf document)

"Travis, C. B., L. J. Gross, B. A. Johnson. 2009. Tracking the Gender Gap: A case study. Psychology of Women Quarterly 33:410-418" (pdf document)

Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - April 28, 2007 (pdf document)

Addendum to Report on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based on Gender - June 28, 2007 (Word document)

Report to the UTK Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee on Analysis of Faculty Salary Data based upon Gender using Data from Fall 2007 - April 7, 2008 (pdf document)

"Biodiversity, Mathematics and Sustainability: Maintaining the Planet’s Biotic Resources" MAA Mathematics Awareness Month Essay for April 2013 (pdf document)

Slides from talk on SIMPDEL to Walt Dineen Conference, May 22-24, 1997 Page

• Lecture Notes from Beijer Institute Advanced Course on Ecological Modeling, December 1998

  Centripetals Talk at UTK January 20, 1999 on Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem Solving for the 21st Century Text of Talk

  Notes from Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, August 1999 on Quantitative Training in the Life Sciences: Designing an Undergraduate Curriculum in Computational Biology Text of Talk, Postscript version

  Schedule of talks presented at "ModËles et thÈories pour le contrÙle de ressources vivantes et la gestion de systËmes Ècologiques - PROGRAMME DE L'…COLE DE PRINTEMPS" Grignon, France, May 2000 Program and photos

  Poster presented at the Orlando Joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the British Ecological Society on Spatially-Explicit Species Index Models in Application to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file

  Poster presented at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Science Conference on Spatially-Explicit Species Index Models in Application to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file

  Poster presented at the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Science Conference on A Simulation Model for Florida panthers and white-tailed deer in the Everglades and Big Cypress Landscape Powerpoint file

  Poster presented at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in 2000 by Rene' Salinas on Sensitivity Analysis of a Spatially Explicit Fish Population Model Applied to Everglades Restoration Powerpoint file

  Poster presented at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting in 2001 by Louis J. Gross and E. Jane Comiskey on Modeling Animal Movements: Current Approaches and Challenges Powerpoint file

  Talk to NSF Workshop on Priorities in Ethnobiology, Missouri Boranical Garden, April 4-6, 2002 Text file

  Talk presented at the National Academies of Science public briefing on the Bio2010 Project, September 10, 2002 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: Lessons from the Tennessee Experience" Powerpoint file

  Talk presented at the National Academies of Science Mathematical Sciences Education Board, November 1, 2002 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: BIO2010 and Beyond" Powerpoint file

  Keynote Talk presented at the NIH/NIGMS/NSF/MAA Conference: Meeting the Challenges in Emerging Areas: Education across the Biological, Mathematical, and Computer Sciences, March 1, 2003 on "Quantitative Education for Life Sciences: BIO2010 and Beyond" Powerpoint file

  Talks presented at the Florida Everglades Multi-species Avian Summit, March 17-18, 2003 on "ATLSS Wading Bird Spatially-Explicit Species Index Modeling" Powerpoint file and "ATLSS and Uncertainty: relativity and spatially-explicit ecological models as methods to aid management planning in Everglades restoration" Powerpoint file

  Keynote address presented at the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics 10th Annual Conference, Union College, Schenectady, NY, April 12, 2003 on "Current and Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Biology" Powerpoint file (10MB)

  Talk presented to the University of Tennessee Tampa Area Alumni Association, Tierra Verde, FL, April 15, 2003 on "Why Florida needs The University of Tennessee: Everglades Restoration, Computing, Mathematics and Public Policy" Powerpoint file (27MB)

  Talk presented to the Alcala International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Alcala, Spain. September 5, 2003 on "Spatial Control in Ecology: Turning Theory into Practice for Natural System Management" Powerpoint file (34MB) and Packed version directory (34MB) and Shorter version (33MB)

  Talk presented at the American Association of Medical Colleges Group on Graduate Research, Education and Training annual meeting. April 25, 2004 on "Quantitative Life Science Education: Preparing Fearless Biologists" Powerpoint file

  Talks presented at the August 2004 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Oregon on "Models for the masses: bringing computational resources for addressing complex ecological problems to stakeholders" Powerpoint file and "Interdisciplinary undergraduate education: BIO2010, curriculum reform and why ecologists should pay attention" Powerpoint file

  President's Closing Address at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology "Forward Ho with Math Bio: the Role of SMB in Meeting Future Challenges" Powerpoint file of slides - an expanded text version of this without graphics was published in the Fall 2004 SMB Newsletter

  Invited Talks presented at the Kansas City Regional Mathematics Technology Expo on October 2, 2004 on "Current and Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Biology" Powerpoint file and on "Mathematics and Biology Education: Promoting Interdisciplinarity" Powerpoint file

  Talk presented at the Symposium on "Quantitative Science in the Biology Curriculum" at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on December 17, 2004 on "Mathematics and Biology Education: Promoting Interdisciplinarity" Powerpoint file

  Talk presented at the Workshop on the Computational Worldview and the Sciences at Princeton University, December 11-12, 2006 on "Synchrony, parallelism and multimodeling" Powerpoint file

  Invited MAA Address presented at the Joint Meeting the Mathematical Association of America, The Society for Mathematical Biology and The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology in San Jose, August 3, 2007 on "Managing Natural Resources: Mathematics meets Politics, Greed and the Army Corps of Engineers" Powerpoint file

  Centripals Lecture presented at the University of Tennessee on November 18, 2009 on "Fostering Interdisciplinarity in Research and Education: NIMBioS and Beyond" Powerpoint file

  Overview of Sustainability Remarks presented at Rutgers University on November 15, 2010 "Comments on the Mathematics of Sustainability Science" Powerpoint file

• Math/EEB 581: Mathematical Ecology - 2001-2002
• Math 581 Matlabfiles for Birth and Death Processes
• Math 583: Mathematical Evolutionary Theory
• Math 527: Stochastic Modeling (Home Page)
• Math 405 and Math 411: Models in Biology (Home Page)
• Math 405: Models in Biology (Spring 98) Home Page
• Math 411: Mathematical Modeling (Fall 96)
• Math 411: Mathematical Modeling (Spring 97)
• EEB 504: Scale and Ecological Systems (Home Page)
• EEB 507: Basic Concepts in Ecology (Spring 98)
• EEB 507: Basic Concepts in Ecology (Spring 99)
• BIO 230: General Ecology - EcoBeaker Lab guide
• Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2003
• Math 152: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Spring 2004
• Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2004
• Math 152: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Spring 2005
• EEB 504/CS 594 Computational Science for Natural Resource Management - Spring 2005
• Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2005
• Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2006
• Math 151: Mathematics for the Life Sciences - Fall 2007
• Math 589/EEB 504: Mathecology Seminar - Individual Based Ecology and Modeling - Fall 2005
• Math/EEB 581: Mathematical Ecology - Fall 2006
• First Year Studies 129 - Spring 2008 - Agents and Orcs: Individual-based Simulations for Fun and Profit
• Math589 and EEB504- Spring 2010 - Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology

• Math/EEB681: Advanced Mathematical Ecology

• EcoBeaker - My Favorite Ecological Teaching Software Tool (Our EcoBeaker Projects page)
• NetLogo - My Favorite Agent-Based Modeling Teaching Tool (NetLogo Download Page)
• Some Probability Teaching Activities (Text file)
• List of Book References on Biological Modeling (Text file)
• List of Textbooks on Ecological Modeling (compiled by Michael Knorrenschild) (WWW link)
• Math Modeling Books List (Text file)
• How does Biology affect Mathematics? (Essay for Mathematics Awareness Month Home Page)
• Mathematics and Ecology (Essay for Mathematics Awareness Month Home Page)
• Mathematics Awareness Month at UTK - Mathematics and Biology Day - April 1999
• The B&B Primer on First Job Haggling (Text file)
• My Notes on Writing and Getting Grants (Text file)
• My Notes on Applying for a Job, Haggling for a Job and Keeping a Job - given to Mathematical Biosciences Institute Postdocs - October 2006 (Text file)
• What is Complexity? - my definition (Text file)
• My Quick Guide to Surfing the Net for Science Olympiad students at Bearden Middle School (Home Page)
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++ from Peter Müller (Web-based Tutorial)
• Web Resources Related to High School Biology Teaching
• Brief list of links regarding complexity theory
• UT Library Resources for research in EEB

• Lecture Notes from Beijer Institute Advanced Course on Ecological Modeling, December 1998
• ICTP Home Page in Italy
• Fifth Course on Mathematical Ecology at ICTP - Announcement
• Donating Journals and Equipment to Developing Countries (List compiled by Mike Kearsley and posted to sci.bio.ecology in December 1996, modified by me in 2001)

• Short Biography
• Profile of me featured in the June/July 2007 issue of Scientific Computing World
• Interview and profile from the Sloan career Cornerstone Center
• Interview and discussion about NIMBioS for the 2011 UTK CHancellor's Report
• My Career in Mathematical Biology in SMB Newsletter, January 2012
• Interview in AAAS Member Central, October 2012
• Two Page Vita - September 2012 (NSF format) (PDF)
• Two Page Vita - 2011 (NIH format) (PDF)
• Full Vita (Word Document)
• Full Vita (PDF)

• Report on survey of faculty for CLassroom Upgrade Committee - October 2000 (Text)

• List of all questions regarding the proposed Research Foundation submitted by faculty for the forum with President Shumaker on Feb. 18, 2003 Web page

• Order of questions regarding the proposed Research Foundation submitted by faculty to address during the forum with President Shumaker on Feb. 18, 2003 Web page

• UT Budget info on State Appropriations for 2003-2004 and Expense changes at Knoxville for 2003-2004 as compared to 2002-2003 Text file

• Site License Home Page

Some Dance, Folk Music and Laurel Theatre Info

Jubilee Community Arts Home Page

Knoxville Country Dancers Home Page

List of Artists who have Appeared at the Laurel Theatre through 1998 (Text file)

Complete List of Laurel Theatre Performers, by date, through 1998 (Text file)

Connections between the Coen Brothers' Films and the Laurel Theater

Percussive Arts Society Home Page (Link)