Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, May 20-22, 2016 The BAMM! Conference, the first of what we hope to be many, was held in Richmond, Virginia in May 2016. Our incredibly rainy weather took a break and we had a beautiful first day on Friday. We enjoyed a wide range of…
The Science and Engineering Festival took place this past April in Washington D.C. The massive event attracted 365,000 people, and featured over 3000 hands-on activities for K-12 kids, their teachers, and their parents. Space travel, 3D printing, and water-shed management were just a few of the panoply of topics represented.…
I don’t particularly like stereotypes but some-times they are right. I am a professional mathematician that as a kid would rather spend weekends and holidays programming my computer and reading books than hanging out with friends and playing football . Even as an adult my first instinct is always to…
What are you currently researching? My research interests span the areas of statistical epidemiology of infectious diseases, epidemic modeling and biomathematical formulation of infectious disease spread. A common thread in my research is in understanding the underlying epidemiological dynamics behind empirically observed data. Having a background in medicine and being…
There are numerous examples of the importance of stochastic effects at various levels of biological organization, ranging from the extinction of family names with a predictable probability at the population level, to phenotypic differences between genetically-identical individuals due to random variations in the number of key enzymes, transcription factors, or…
Alan Hastings started working in mathematical and theoretical ecology as a student at Cornell University where he received his BS in Mathematics 1973 and his PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1977. After two years on the faculty at Washington State University, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis,…
The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (www.springer.com/11538) is the natural home for your next great mathematical biology paper. Here are some of the reasons why you should publish with us: 1. The Bulletin Is The First Journal In Mathematical And Theoretical Biology Since its inception in 1939, the Bulletin of Mathematical…
Please join us before the start of the scientific meeting for a variety of presentations and discussions around careers in mathematical biology. The workshop has four main components: 1. For graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, there will be a session led by Robert Smith? and Christina Cobbold about strategies…
Voting in the 2016 Society for Mathematical Biology elections began a few days ago. If you are a regular member of the Society for Mathematical Biology, it’s time to cast your ballot in the elections. The Society for Mathematical Biology is a member-led organization. The Society for Mathematical Biology…
The Society for Mathematical Biology now offers a Lifetime Membership. You can lock your membership dues at today’s rates by becoming a Lifetime Member. The Lifetime Membership will give you the benefits of a Regular Member without paying dues again. The cost of a Lifetime Membership is $50 for each…