ANNOUNCMENT

Biomathematics Seminar Fall 2007

MSCS296 section 1010 (1 credit)

section 1011 (2 credits)

section 1012 (3 credits)

Mondays 9:00 a.m. in CU 401

This semester, we will have lectures and read papers in a number of topics of interest. These include

----- Cardiac image registration

----- Lung physiology & pulmonary hypertension

----- Thyroid function and control & Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Speaker Schedule (titles/speakers subject to change):

9/10/2007 Shivani Ratnakumar (Ph.D. Candidate) Intro to Cardiac Image Registration

9/17/2007 Balamurugan Pandiyan (Ph.D. student) Aspects of Michaelis-Menten kinetics - modeling inhibition

9/24/2007 Prof. Gary Krenz (Dept MSCS) Electron transport in pulmonary mitrochondria I

10/1/2007 Prof. Gary Krenz (Dept MSCS) Electron transport in pulmonary mitrochondria II

10/8/2007 Ranga Sowmyanarayanan (Ph.D. student) Basic Lung Physiology

10/15/2007 Balamurugan Pandiyan (Ph.D. student) Function of the hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid axis

10/22/2007 Ranga Sowmyanarayanan (Ph.D. student) Flow and Pressure in the Lung I

10/29/2007 Balamurugan Pandiyan (Ph.D. student) Modeling the hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid axis I

11/5/2007 Ranga Sowmyanarayanan (Ph.D. student) Flow and Pressure in the Lung II

11/12/2007 Prof. Steve Merrill (Dept MSCS) Empirical Markov chains in the study of heart rate variability

11/19/2007 Balamurugan Pandiyan (Ph.D. student) Modeling the hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid axis II

11/26/2007 Shivani Ratnakumar (Ph.D. Candidate) Markov chain kinetics in gaited heart imaging

12/3/2007 Prof. Sherry Scott (Dept MSCS) A diagnostic tool for ergodicity