Tuesday, January 26, 2016 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Maximizing diversity in biology and beyond (Part 1)
Speaker: Mark Meckes (Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: Entropy-like quantities have long been used as a measure of diversity in various fields. There is a spectrum of viewpoints on diversity, indexed by a real parameter...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Time-Series from Ventilated Patients and Dynamics of the Pulmonary Infection/Immunity Process
Speaker: Todd Young (Professor of Mathematics, Ohio University)
Abstract: We have developed the capability to acquire and analyze exhaled fluid from the lungs of ventilated patients. The fluid can contain pathogens and...