Department of Mathematics, Statistics and
Computer Science
Since 1985, The Department has offered a Ph.D. in Mathematics with a specialization in Biomathematics.
This program is based on the research of associated faculty in biomedical areas. The dissertation research is
collaborative
with faculty of
the Medical College of Wisconsin, the Zablocki VA Medical Center, and
with a Ph.D. in Mathematics is Pandiyan. All future students will be through the program in Computational Sciences which
started in the Fall semester of 2009
Due to the applied nature of the research, coursework involves a broad range of pure and applied topics.
In addition, the Biomathematics Seminar chooses timely topics of interest for semester or year-long treatment.
The seminar is offered every
semester. Topics have included Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems in Biology,
Fourier Analysis of fMRI (1 year), Modeling Heart, Lung, and Thyroid,
Models
of Protein Docking, Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology,
Biological Sequence Analysis,
Modeling with Stochastic Differential Equations,
Numerical Solution of Stochastic
Differential Equations, Nonlinear Time Series,
Numerical Solution of Partial
Differential Equations,
Equations, Delay Differential
Equations, Modeling the Immune Response, Chaos in Iterated Systems
and Cellular Automata,
Modeling the Microarray, and
Simulation Methods.
Students who have received degrees in this program, their dissertation titles, and (major professor) are:
1988 Xuncheng Huang Mathematical analysis of population models (S. Merrill)
1992 Ondine Harris The Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Stochastic Model,
Methods of Quantification, and Applications to HIV (S. Merrill)
1993 Zhixiong He Mathematical models of muscle response to periodic stimuli (S. Merrill)
1996 Xing Wu Dynamical systems in the modeling of lampry fictive swimming (S. Merrill)
1998 Christina Kendziorski A
physiologically based mathematical model of arterial pressure
recordings (P. Tonellato)
2001 Brian Murphy Modeling the time to engraftment of white blood
cells and platelets following
autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (S. Merrill)
2001 Albert Manual Mathematical model for evaluation of velocity
profile effects on
cross-sectional concentration with application to x-ray imaging (A. Clough)
2004 Jinghui Luo Construction and analysis of airway water clearance models (G. Krenz)
2005 Roumyana Yordanova Markov chain decomposition
and characterization of hypertensive blood
pressure with applications to linkage analysis (P.Tonellato)
2008 Shivani
Ratnakumar Markov
chain modeling of ECG gated live left atrial fluoroscopy variability
to establish a well-defined basis for rigid registration to
a 3D CT image (S. Merrill)
2011 Balamurugan
Pandiyan Mathematical modeling and
dynamical analysis of the operation of the
hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid
(HPT) axis in autoimmune (Hashimoto’s) thyroiditis(S. Merrill)