Past Seminars

  • 27/11/23 – Sara Hamis (Tampere University) – Bottom-up and top-down models of drug resistance in melanoma
  • 13/11/23 – Jochen Kursawe (University of St Andrews) – Bayesian inference for stochastic differential equations and time series data
  • 30/10/23 – Fiona Macfarlane (University of St Andrews) – Discrete and continuum methods to investigate chemotactic pattern formation
  • 16/10/23 – Deborah Kent (University of St Andrews) – On Growth and Form
  • 02/10/2023 –  Frederick Truman-Williams (University of St Andrews) – Fast and long-time accurate stochastic modelling for biochemical reaction systems with Hopf bifurcations
  • 18/09/2023 –  Konstantinos Alexiou (University of St Andrews)- Multilevel Selection with Pairwise Between-Group Competition
  • 22/05/2023 – Daniel Muzatko (University of Aberdeen) – Improving Turing’s activator-inhibitor model of pattern formation.
  • 01/05/2023 – Kairui Li (University of St Andrews) – Quantifying Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Remodeling from Live-imaging Microscopy Data.
  • 24/04/2023 – Aimee Bebbington (University of St Andrews) – Towards tissue-wide characterisation of pulsed actomyosin contractions during metamorphosis of the Drosophila abdominal epidermis.
  • 17/04/2023 – Marios Zachariou (University of St Andrews) – Estimating phenotypic characteristics of tuberculosis bacteria
  • 27/03/2023 – Dimitrios Katsaounis (University of St Andrews) – Hybrid modelling for cancer invasion and metastasis.
  • 20/03/2023 – Konstantinos Alexiou (University of St Andrews) – Scaling limits for biochemical reaction systems and a stochastic model of multilevel selection.
  • 13/03/2023 – Mauricio Gonzales Forero (University of St Andrews) – Evo-devo dynamics of human brain size
  • 06/03/2023 – Ben Swallow (University of St Andrews) – Directed dimension reduction and clustering for tracking and now-casting of epidemiological time series
  • 20/02/2023 – Andrew Ó hEachteirn (University of Oxford) – Modelling Capillary Network Rarefaction in the Prion Dynamics of Alzheimer’s Disease: From Resistor Networks to the Human Connectome.
  • 13/02/2023 – Viktoria Freingruber (University of Edinburgh) – How cells work together to migrate more efficiently (in person)
  • 23/01/2023 – Jeremy Worsfold (University of Bath) – Before the continuum limit: quantifying fluctuations in particle models for collective behaviour.
  • 12/12/2022 – Sara Hamis (Tampere University) – Studying cell-cell interactions using spatial cumulant models
  • 05/12/2022 – Carles Falcó (University of Oxford) – Nonlocal continuum models of cell-cell adhesion and their Cahn-Hilliard approximation
  • 28/11/2022 – Daniel Tudor (University of Edinburgh) – How mathematical models can help us understand immune cell interactions in tissue repair
  • 14/11/2022 – Frederick Truman-Williams (University of St Andrews) – Hybrid models for biochemical reaction systems.
  • 17/10/2022 – Lukas Eigentler (University of Dundee) – Modelling dryland vegetation patterns: the impact of non-local seed dispersal and mechanisms of species coexistence.
  • 22/08/2022 – Theodor Cimpeanu – Promoting Pro-Sociality in Complex Networks
  • 06/06/2022 – Spyridon Chavlis (Foundation for Research & Technology, Hellas (FORTH)) – Modelling dendritic computations in different levels of abstractions
  • 23/05/2022 – Thomas Hitchcock (University of St Andrews) – What’s the value of reproductive value?
  • 09/05/2022 – Eszter Lakatos (Cancer Research UK Barts Centre) – Modelling the evolutionary processes shaping the neoantigen landscape
  • 11/04/2022 – Zena Hadjivasiliou (Francis Crick Institute) – Growth and patterning in development and evolution
  • 04/04/2022 – Qi Su (University of Pennsylvania) –  Coupling multiple domains of interactions promotes prosocial behavior
  • 28/03/2022 – Erez Yoeli (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) – Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Seemingly Irrational Human Behavior
  • 21/03/2022 – Rahul Bhui (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)) – Computational rationality and the effect of context on decision making
  • 14/03/2022 – Sonja Mathias (Uppsala University) – Numerical study of center-based models for tissue mechanics
  • 07/03/2022 – Thomas Williams (University of Melbourne) – Choice of Spatial Discretisation influences the Progression of Viral Infection within Multicellular Tissues
  • 14/02/2022 – Joscha Seutter (University of St Andrews)
  • 07/02/2022 – Yunchen Xiao (University of St Andrews)
  • 31/01/2022 – Fiona Macfarlane (University of St Andrews)

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Mathematical Biology group 
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews
Mathematical Institute
North Haugh
St Andrews
KY16 9SS

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3744