AWM Spring Colloquium: Guest Speaker Dr. Olga Turanova March 9th at 4pm in Little Hall 225
We’re excited to invite you to AWM's Annual Spring Colloquium, with special guest speaker Dr. Olga Turanova from Michigan State University! On Monday, March 9th at 4:00 P.M. in Little Hall 225, Dr. Turanova will give a talk titled "Speed-up of Invasions via PDEs" — the abstract and flyer are attached below. Everyone is welcome, and we hope to see you there!
Abstract:
Diffusive PDEs that describe the growth of populations and of tissues. For almost 100 years, partial differential equations (PDEs) have been a powerful tool for formulating and understanding models of population growth. And, in recent decades, PDEs have been used to model the propagation of tissues, with the prototypical scenario being that of a cancer tumor growing in an organism. The focus of this talk will be on diffusion equations in each of these classes. I’ll begin with a brief historical introduction to models of population growth. Then, I'll show how nonlinear diffusion arises naturally when describing tissue growth, and how this provides a link to free boundary problems.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could notify your students about this opportunity. If anyone would like to know more about the club, feel free to look at our website at https://awm.math.ufl.edu, contact our AWM Vice President, Jada Sitchler (sitchlerj@ufl.edu), or our faculty sponsors, Dr. Gamage (cgamage@ufl.edu) and Professor Demas (demasc@ufl.edu).
Best,
Evelyn Chen
Secretary, The Association for Women in
Mathematics
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