Education:

        Fall 2009 class:

• Math 501.
•   Principles of Mathematical Analysis

 

Fall 2006 class:

• MATH 690P.
• Student Presentations for Math 690P, An Introduction to Mathematical Biology. (In order of presentation)

     1. Reaction-Diffusion Equations and Inverse functions  Jaemin Shin Presentation

     2. Modeling Brain Energy Metabolism and Function Wen Zou Presentation

     3. An Investigation of Population Interaction Dynamics  Lindsay Kasuga Presentation

     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".  He is currently a medical fellow in hematology and oncology at the University of Minnesota while she is a radiology  fellow there. 

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 currently has an NIH Traineeship at Massachusetts General Hospital  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 and is an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University.

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.) This model  now resides in the main office of the Mathematics Department on the 3rd floor of Carver Hall.)
 

 

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