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2023 | |
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Alex Beams
Thesis: Dynamics, Inference, and Simulation Studies in Epidemiology: Relating Transmission and Aetiology to Treatment for Infectious Organisms of Note
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: Simon Fraser University/McMaster University
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Elias Clark
Thesis: Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Effects of Medication Nonadherence
Chair: Sean Lawley
Current Position: Metrum Research Group
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Jake Madrid
Thesis: On the Limitations of Mean Field Approximations: Extreme First Passage Times and Stochastic Extinction
Chair: Sean Lawley
Postdoc: Duke University
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Kees McGahan
Thesis: Mathematical Models of Ion Channel Kinetics and Sensory Neuron Dynamics
Chair: James Keener
Postdoc: Boston University
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Claire Plunkett
Thesis: Boundary Homogenization of Surfaces with Small Reactive Patches
Chair: Sean Lawley
Current Position: Teledyne
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Ryan Schumm
Thesis: Analytical and Monte Carlo Methods for Stochastic Search Processes with Partially Reactive Domains
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Current Position: NSA
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2022 | |
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Amanda Alexander
Thesis: Mathematical Models of Subdiffusing Molecules and T Cell Population Dynamics
Chair: Sean Lawley
Postdoc: University of Houston
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Kyle Gaffney
Thesis: Continuous Models of the Mechanics of Flagellar and Ciliary Beating
Chair: James Keener
Current Position: Applied Research Associates, Inc.
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2021 | |
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Hallie Elich
Thesis: A Fluid-structure interaction model of pumping in a chain of lymphangions
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
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Priscilla Elizondo
Thesis: Mathematical studies of venous thrombosis
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
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Cody FitzGerald
Thesis: Analysis of environmentlly-cued gene regulatory networks in plants and bacteria
Chair: James Keener
Postdoc: Northwestern University
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Andrew Kassen
Thesis: Continuous energy, shared memory parallel, 3D whole blood simulations
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Current Position: Senoir Software Engineer, Intel
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Anna Nelson
Thesis: Kinetic polymerization models and the roles of fibrinogen in fibrin gel formation
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Posdoc: Duke University
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Andrew Watson
Thesis: Mathematical models of platelet interaction with a reactive surface under flow
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Current Position: SAS
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Daniel Zavitz
Thesis: Structure vs. function in olfactory networks
Chair: Alla Borisyuk
Postdoc: Washington University
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2020 | |
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Bridget Fan
Thesis: A Mathematical Investigation of Quorum Sensing in Bacterial and Communication Networks
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Houston
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Liz Fedak
Thesis: Mathematical Models of P53 Autoregulation and the DNA Damage Response
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: University of Utah
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Samantha Hill
Thesis: Mathematical Modeling of Plant Community Influence on Associational Effects Driven by Insect Foraging
Chair: Fred Adler
Current Position: BioMerieux
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Hyunjoong Kim
Thesis: Mathematical Models of Cytoneme-based Morphogenesis
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Pennsylvania
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Katie Link
Thesis: Mathematical Models of Flow-Mediated Intravascular and Extravascular Blood Clotting
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Postdoc: UC Davis
Current Position: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
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Patrick Murphy
Thesis: Cellular Diffusion in Heterogeneous and Age-Structured Switching Environments
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: Rice University
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Rebecca Terry
Mathematical Models of Cooperation and Phenotypic Plasticity
Chair: Fred Adler
Current Position: St. Lawrence University
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Kiersten Utsey
Thesis: Bistability in Epigenetic and Genetic Regulation
Chair: Jim Keener
Current Position: Metrum Research Group
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2019 | |
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Gregory Handy
Thesis: From Particle Diffusion to Neuronal Networks: A Multi-scale Study of the Astrocytes Role in the Brain
Chair: Alla Borysiuk
Postdoc: University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago
Faculty: University of Minnesota
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2018 | |
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Laura Strube
Thesis: A Mathematical Model of Translational Regulation by the Integrated Stress Response
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: Virginia Tech
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Ryan Viertel
Thesis: A Model of the External Tufted Cell and Cross Fields: Analysis, Computation and Applications
Chair: Alla Borysiuk, Braxton Osting
Current Position: Sandia National Labs
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Sam Carroll
Thesis: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of
Orientation-Selective Neural Populations in the Visual Cortex
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Utah
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Katrina Johnson
Thesis: Mathematical Models of Obesity, Inflammation, and RNA Decay
Chair: Fred Adler
Faculty: BYU-Idaho
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Ethan Levien
Thesis: Noise Propagation in Biochemical Reaction
Networks: Multiscale and Population-level
Perspectives
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: Harvard
Faculty: Dartmouth College
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Chris Miles
Thesis: "A hop, switch, and jump: stochasticity in models of motor-mediated intracellular transport"
Chair: James Keener
Postdoc: NYU
Faculty: UC Irvine
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Leif Zinn-Björkman
Thesis: "Mathematical models for development of the zebrafish lateral line"
Chair: Fred Adler
Instructor: UCLA
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Heather Zinn Brooks
Thesis: "Dynamics and structure: from microtubule networks to population networks"
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: UCLA
Faculty: Harvey Mudd College
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2017 | |
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Anna Miller
Thesis: "Mathematical Modeling of Epithelial Cell Division: Evaluating the Effects of Human Papillomavirus Infection"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: Moffitt Cancer Center
Current Position: Associate Scientist in Pharmacometrics, Certara, Inc.
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Joe Eason
Thesis: "Modeling the Effects of Worker Rules on Territorial Conflicts in Ants"
Chair: Fred Adler
Faculty: University of Montana Western
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Bhargav Karamched
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Motor-Based Intracellular Transport"
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Houston
Faculty: Florida State University
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Jie Ma
Thesis: "Singular Perturbation Methods in Pharmacokinetics and Stochastic Modeling of Random Drug Taking Processes"
Chair: James Keener
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Bin Xu
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Cell Polarization"
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Notre Dame
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2016 | |
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Andrew Basinski
Thesis: "Information-Use Strategies in Ants"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: University of Idaho
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Parker Childs
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Chemical Reactions: Discrepancies between Markov Chains and Mass Action Kinetics"
Chair: James Keener
Current Position: BioMerieux
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Cheryl Zapata-Allegro
Thesis: "Mathematical Modeling of Fibrin Gelation Dynamics and Structure Formation Under Flow"
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Current Position: BioMerieux
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2015 | |
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Megan Dixon
Thesis: "Roles For Ubiquitin and Dimensional Dependence in Protein Regulation"
Chair: James Keener
Current Position: Brigham Young University
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2014 | |
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Ross Magi
Thesis: "Dynamics Behavior of Biological Membranes"
Chair: James Keener
Faculty: Walla Walla University
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James Moore
Thesis: "Mathematical Modeling of the interaction between viral infections and the development of autoimmunity"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: Georgia Tech
Postdoc: Emory University
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2013 | |
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Geoff Hunter
Thesis: "A study on the Identification, Parameterization, and Validation of Mathematical Models in Biology"
Chair: James Keener
Postdoc: Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
TribalScale
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2012 | |
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Brittany Bannish
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Fibrinolysis"
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Faculty: University of Central Oklahoma
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Erica Graham
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Mechanisms Underlying Long-term Type 2 Diabetes Progression"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: NC State University
Faculty: Bryn Mawr College
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Chris Remien
Thesis: "Biological Markers: Blurred in Time and Space"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: NIMBioS
Faculty: University of Idaho
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2011 | |
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Blerta Shtylla
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Chromosome Motility during Mitosis"
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: MBI, Ohio State University
Faculty: Mount Holyoke College
Faculty: Pomona College
Current Position: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
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Sean Laverty
Thesis: "Mathematical Models Of Wildlife And Human Disease: Seasonal And Immunoepidemiological Dynamics"
Chair: Frederick R. Adler
Postdoc: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
Faculty: University of Central Oklahoma
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2010 | |
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Lindsay Crowl Erickson
Thesis: "Blood Flow Dynamics: a Lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary Approach"
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore CA
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Giao Huynh
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Epstein-Barr virus Dynamics"
Chair: Fred Adler
Oakland University
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Courtney Davis
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Memory T-Cell Compartment Size and Repertoire Dynamics"
Chair: Fred Adler
Postdoc: University of Maryland - College Park
Faculty: Pepperdine University
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Zachary Kilpatrick
Thesis: “Spatially structured waves and oscillations in neuronal networks with synaptic
depression and adaptation"
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Pittsburgh
Faculty: University of Houston
Faculty: University of Colorado Boulder
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Karin Leiderman
Thesis: "A Mathematical Model of Blood Coagulation and Platelet Deposition Under Flow" (2010)
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Postdoc: Duke University
Faculty: UC Merced
Faculty: Colorado School of Mines
Faculty: UNC, Chapel Hill
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Frank Lynch
Thesis: "Mathematical Modeling of the Gastric Mucus Gel" (2010)
Chair: James P. Keener
Faculty: Occidental College
Faculty: Eastern Washington University
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Jay Newby
Thesis: "Molecular Motor-Based Models of Random Intermittent Search in Dendrites" (2010)
Chair: Paul Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Oxford
Postdoc: MBI, Ohio State University
Postdoc: UNC Chapel Hill
Faculty: University of Edmonton
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2009 | |
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Amber Smith
Thesis: "Mathematical Models of Influenza A Virus and Streptococcus Pneumoniae Infections" (2009)
Chair: Frederick R. Adler
Postdoc: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Postdoc: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Faculty: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
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Nessy Tania
Thesis: "Mathematical models of calcium regulation and cardiac cells" (2009)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: University of British Columbia
Faculty: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Current Position: Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
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2008 | |
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Elizabeth Doman
Thesis: "Electrical Coupling of Cardiac Cells in the Absence of Gap Junctions" (2008)
Chair: James P. Keener
Current Position: BioMerieux
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William Nesse
Thesis: "Random fluctuations in dynamical neural networks" (2008)
Chair: Paul C. Bressloff
Postdoc: University of Ottawa
Postdoc: University of Utah
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2007 | |
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Meagan McNulty
Thesis: "Mathematical models of respiratory inflammation" (2007)
Chair: Frederick R. Adler
Postdoc: Williams and Mary College
Faculty: Virginia Military Institute
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Elijah Newren
Thesis: "Enhancing the immersed boundary method : stability, volume conservation, and implicit solvers" (2007)
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Staff: Sandia National Labs
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John Zobitz
Thesis: "Mathematical approaches to partition net ecosystem exchange of CO2 in a high-elevation subalpine forest" (2007)
Chair: Frederick R. Adler
Faculty: Augsburg College
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2006 | |
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Young-Seon Lee
Thesis: "Mechanisms of Calcium Alternans in Cardiac Cells" (2006)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: Cornell University
Postdoc: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Andrew Oster
Thesis: "Mathematical models of cortical development" (2006)
Chair: Paul C. Bressloff
Postdoc: Mathematical Biosciences Institute-The Ohio State University
Postdoc: Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, Paris, France
Visiting Assistant Professor: Washington and Lee University
Faculty: Eastern Washington University
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2005 | |
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Stefanos Folias
Thesis: "Stimulus-Induced Waves and Breathers in Synaptically Coupled
Neural Networks" (2005)
Chair: Paul C. Bressloff
Postdoc: Boston University
Postdoc: University of Pittsburgh
Faculty: University of Alaska Anchorage
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2004 | |
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Robert D. Guy
Thesis: "A Continuum Model of Platelet Aggregation: Closure, Computational
Methods and Simulation" (2004)
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Postdoc: University of Utah
Faculty: University of California, Davis
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Brynja R. Kohler
Thesis: "T Lymphocyte population dynamics in health and autoimmunity" (2004)
Chair: James P. Keener
Faculty: Utah State University
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Thomas C. Robbins
Thesis: "Seed dispersal and biological invasion: A mathematical analysis" (2004)
Chair: Mark A. Lewis
Postdoc: University of Utah
Current Position: BioMerieux
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2003 | |
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Bradford E. Peercy
Thesis: "Models of Border Zone Arrhythmias in Acute Myocardial Ischemia" (2003)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: Rice University
Postdoc: LBM-NIDDK, NIH
Faculty: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Nicholas G. Cogan
Thesis: "A Model of Biofilm Growth and Structural Development" (2003)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: Tulane University
Faculty: Florida State University
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2001 | |
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Eric N. Cytrynbaum
Thesis: "Using Low Dimensional Models to Understand Cardiac Arrythmias" (2001)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: University of California, Davis
Faculty: University of British Columbia
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Miguel Dumett
Thesis: "A numerical method for solving anisotropic elliptic boundary
value problems on irregular domains in two and three dimensions" (2001)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Faculty: University of Southern California
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Chung Seon Yi
Thesis: "Mathematical models for ionic concentration changes and volume shifts
during ischemia and hypoxia" (2001)
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Postdoc: Virginia Technical University
Postdoc: University of Dundee
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2000 and earlier | |
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Haoyu Yu
Thesis: "Three-dimensional computational modeling and simulation of platelet
aggregation on parallel computers" (2000)
Chair: Aaron L. Fogelson
Postdoc: University of Minnesota
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Andrew Kuharsky
Thesis: "Mathematical modeling of blood coagulation" (1998)
Chair: Aaron Fogelson
Postdoc: Tulane University
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Timothy L. Lewis
Thesis: "Signal Propagation in Inhomogeneous Excitable Media" (1998)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: New York University
Faculty: University of California, Davis
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Eric Marland
Thesis: "Dynamics of the sarcomere" (1998)
Chair: James P. Keener
Postdoc: University of California, Davis
Faculty: Appalachian State University
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