4. Lumped processes for analyzing grouping in DNA sequences
Vladimir Sukhoy Presentation
5. Competitive Exclusion in
a Vector-Host Model for the Dengue Fever
Cory Howk Presentation
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Research
Research Experience for Undergraduates:
Prior Research Interests::
Improperly posed problems, systems of
reaction-diffusion equations, nonlinear wave equations.
Current Research Interests:
Mathematical modelling of tumor driven
angiogenesis. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Program
in Applied Mathematics Grant #DMS 9803992. My coauthors were Professor Brian
Sleeman of the University of Leeds, and Professor Marit Nilsen-Hamilton of the
Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology at Iowa State are
my principal collaborators on this project. Sleeman is supported as a consultant
on the grant. The computations were done by S. Pamuk, a PhD student of mine.
Together with Mike Smiley and Anna Tucker, Prof. Nilsen-Hamilton and I have
extended these ideas to the so called "p53-switch" in which loss of the wild
type p-53 function leads to uncontroled or excess growth factor
expression. Professor Nilsen-Hamilton, K. Boushaba and I have
recently modeled the control of secondary tumors by primary tumors.
Let me show you a picture of my
family.
Here is my son
Joe. (Here is a second picture.) He graduated with a
BS in biochemistry in May,1999, from the University of Iowa, the branch campus of
Iowa State University, in Iowa City. He was
employed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in Groton, Connecticut for two years and an
MD at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Here is a picture of him with his
bride Marina (nee'
Abromovich), who was a classmate of his at Minnesota. Here they are again, the
"the Drs. Levine",
residents at Hennipen County General Hospital and the University of Minnesota.
This is my daughter
Margo. (Here is a second picture.) She is a
graduate of Cornell University where she studied civil engineering and minored
in applied mathematics. You think an ISU education is expensive? Well, let me
tell you ..... She had an REU at the University of Alabama at Birmingam during the
summer of 2001. Here are some pictures of her lecturing on her research: REU Lecture, scene 1
: REU Lecture, scene 2
:
REU Lecture, scene 3
. She
is post doctoral fellow at the James Franck Institute at the University of
Chicago. She received a Murphy Fellowship to study applied
mathematics at Northwestern University
beginning Fall Quarter, 2002. She received her PhD at Northwestern University
in 2007. She recently
married
Raphael
Jaramello, who was an undergrad at Cornell and a graduate student
in physics at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in physics at Chicago.
Here is a picture of them when they
were "young uns"
Hobbies: I build model ships from kits. In this "trade" I have advanced from
an "out of the box" builder to a "modified kit" builder. Building from "scratch"
is not on my menu. Those folks are the "pros" whose ships one finds in museums
such as the Musee de la Marine (Paris) and the Royal Navy Museum (Greenwich,
UK). Here is a sample of my work. A few have won prizes at a local model club's
hobby show.
HMS
Bounty, Stem view.
USS
Rattlesnake, Stern view.
San Felipe, Stern view, View from above, Deck.
HMS Golden Hind, Stern view .
HMS Halifax, Stern view.
USS Flying
Cloud, Stern
view, Deck
view.(Best in Show, Plastic Surgeons 1999)
USS Constitution, Stern view. (This
was my first attempt at wooden ship building.) The actual model was donated to
the Math Department at Iowa State in 2005 and now resides in the main office on
the 3rd floor of Carver Hall.)
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