Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research at Mines

Advanced Mathematics and Statistics for the Modern World

Expanding our understanding of biology using quantitative approaches

Mathematical Biology focuses on the application of mathematical and statistical modeling, analysis, and computational simulation to explore a variety of biological processes. Research in AMS includes but is not limited to sleep and circadian rhythms, metabolism, endocrinology, microorganism motility, in-host viral dynamics, and epidemiology.

Affiliated Faculty

Cecilia Diniz Behn

email: cdinizbe@mines.edu

• Multiple time scales in the interactions between sleep and circadian rhythms
• Glucose-insulin dynamics and quantifying tissue-specific insulin resistance
• Orexin/hypocretin neurons and their role in stabilizing sleep-wake behavior
• Stochastic and deterministic contributions to the fine architecture of sleep-wake behavior

Steve Pankavich

email: pankavic@mines.edu

• Mathematical and computational Epidemiology
• Modeling and analysis of in-host disease dynamics
• Multiscale modeling and simulation of nanoscale biological structures
• Coarse-grained modeling of biomolecules

Brennan Sprinkle

email: bsprinkl@mines.edu

• Brownian dynamics, Numerical methods for SDEs, Colloidal suspensions
• Computational fluid dynamics, Immersed boundary methods
• Simulating actin suspensions/fiber networks