Sunday, 6 April 2014
James D Murray, Reflections of a life in Academia, in conversation with Phillip Maini
Founder of the WCMB, James Murray, visited Oxford last month to give the inaugural Hooke lecture, "Why there are no three-headed monsters, resolving some problems with brain tumours, divorce prediction and how to save marriages". While he was here, he was interviewed by his former student and our current director Prof. Philip Maini, featuring questions from various members of the WCMB. You can watch the interview here as part of the podcast series The Secrets of Mathematics.
Monday, 31 March 2014
Discrete and continuous models for tissue growth and shrinkage
In
this post Dr. Christian Yates summarises his recent paper “Discrete and continuous models for tissue growth
and shrinkage”, on modelling tissue growth and shrinkage using mathematical models that explicitly incorporate randomness in the tissue deformation process.
Monday, 24 March 2014
Understanding the host-virus interaction in chronic HTLV-I infection with the help of mathematical modelling
In this post Aaron Lim, a DPhil student at the WCMB and the EEID, discusses his work on within-host mathematical modelling of host-virus interactions.
Monday, 17 March 2014
Taking randomness into account
In this post Dr. Ulrich Dobramysl, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant working at the WCMB, discusses stochastic modelling and randomness in biological systems.
Tuesday, 11 March 2014
Silver at SET for Britain
In this post Dr. Christian Yates , a Junior Research Fellow working at the WCMB, gives us a description of his poster on locust migration which scoped the Silver Award in the Mathematics section of SET for Britain, a national poster competition held in the Houses of Parliament.
Sunday, 9 March 2014
Chemical reactions, spatial information processing, and model invalidation, oh my!
In this post Dr Heather Harrington, Hooke Research Fellow and EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the WCMB, discusses her research interests.
Sunday, 2 March 2014
Interdisciplinary communication: stuck in the middle?
In this post D.Phil. student Linus Schumacher sums up recent thoughts on interdisciplinary communication and science career paths.
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