Undergraduate Program: REU (June 11 - August 10, 2012)
***This event is closed***
During the eight week REU period students will be in residence at their mentor's institution working on a significant research problem. It is expected that three or four students will work at each of 5 to 7 participating Institute Partners. The participating institutions, the project mentors, and the research topics are:
1. Arizona State University - June 18-August 10, 2012 (8 weeks)
- The Impact of Non-Homogeneous Mixing on Demography and Epidemics - Fabio Milner
- Evolutionary Genetics of Antigen Repertoires - Jay Taylor
2. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis - June 18-August 10, 2012 (8 weeks)
- Dynamical systems, Oscillations, Synchronization and Parkinson's Disease - Leonid Rubchinsky
- Mathematical Modeling of Ocular Blood Flow and its Relation to Glaucoma - Giovanna Guidoboni
3. The Ohio State University - June 18-August 10, 2012 (8 weeks)
- Modeling cholera disease dynamics - Joe Tien
- Statistical Phylogenetics - Laura Kubatko
4. University of Minnesota - July 2 - August 10, 2012 (6 weeks)
- Stochastic problems in signal transduction and gene control - Hans G. Othmer
- The influence of network structure on neuronal network dynamics - Duane Q. Nykamp
5. University of Pittsburgh - June 11 - August 3, 2012 (8 weeks)
- (1) Mechanisms of Cortical Variability. (2) Models of neural memory/decision making. (3) Mechanisms of neural modulation/adaptation. -- Brent Doiron
- (1) Neural pathologies. (2) What determines when neural oscillators will synchronize? (3) What determines the properties of spatiotemporal dynamics in cortical networks. -- Bard Ermentrout
- (1) Modeling limb control and dynamics (2) Exploration of parameter space for existing central pattern generator models. (3) Development of a computational swimming turtle model. - Jonathan Rubin
6. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech - June 11-August 3, 2012 (8 weeks)
- (1) Mathematical modeling of mammalian iron metabolism. (2) Mathematical algorithms and software for modeling and simulation in systems biology. - Reinhard Laubenbacher
7. University of Houston - June 11 - August 3, 2012 (8 weeks)
- Correlations between the responses of neurons. - Krešimir Josić
- Testing the limits of deterministic and stochastic delay models of gene regulation. - Krešimir Josić and Will Ott
