Archive: NIMBioS Visitor Calendar 2019

The NIMBioS Visitor Calendar lists all visitors to the institute, including Short-term Visitors, Sabbatical Fellows, Visiting Graduate Student Fellows, and Self-supported Visitors.

Dates	Visitor/Affiliation	Project	Collaborator(s)
February 2019
Feb 8-11	Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Kansas); Benito Chen (Mathematics, Univ. of Texas Arlington); Maria Leite (Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of South Florida)	Sustainability of harvesting non-timber forest products in fragmented landscape: A mathematical framework	Orou Gaoue
April 2019
Apr 10-14	Krithi K. Karanth (Executive Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore; Assoc. Conservation Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York; Adjunct Asst. Professor, Duke Univ.)	Resolving human-wildlife conflict with innovative social-ecological solutions. Seminar: Living with Wildlife: Insights from conservation research, technology and education programs in India, April 11	Charlotte Chang
Apr 23-24	Baba Brinkman (Rap artist and playwright)	Performed the world premiere of his Rap Guide to Culture, April 23
May 2019
May 1 - Jun 30	Brielle Kwarta (Mathematics, Univ. of Washington)	Extensions of the SRE project on economic modeling of free-roaming cats in Knox County	Charles Sims, Suzanne Lenhart
May 6-9	Noa Pinter-Wollman (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of California, Los Angeles)	Developing topological tools for multiscale feedback in collaborative behavioral systems	Nina Fefferman
May 10-17	Andrew Morozov (Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK); Sergei Petrovskii (Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK)	Continue collaboration stemming from the Long Transients Working Group meeting.	Sergey Gavrilets
May 28-31	Irina Vortkamp (Mathematics & Computer Science, Osnabrück Univ.)	Optimization methods for discrete time models in agricultural land use	Suzanne Lenhart
May 29-Jun 3	Jason Bintz (Mathematics, Johnson Univ., Tennessee)	Use of optimal control theory for resource allocation in population models; Modeling the infectious disease Clostridioides difficile	Suzanne Lenhart
July 2019
Jul 14-31	Oscar Martinez (Mathematics, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur)	Using spatial ecology tools to assess the conservation status of Mesoamerican bees	Monica Papeş, Luis Carrasco Tornero
Jul 15 - Aug 2	Tony Jhwueng (Statistics, Feng-Chia Univ.)	Studying Phylogenetic Trait Evolution through Bridge Processes	Brian O'Meara
July 16-18	Gesham Magombedze (Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Experimental Therapeutics, Baylor Health Care); Judith Stabel (USDA, Infectious Bacterial Diseases Research: Ames, IA)	Mathematical and biological modeling of Johne's disease immunology	Shigetoshi Eda
Jul 21-26	Eric Numfor (Mathematics, Agusta College)	Cell-to-cell model of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)	Suzanne Lenhart
Jul 29 - Aug 3	Lauren Childs (Mathematics, Virginia Tech)	Modeling malaria parasite diversity	Nina Fefferman
August 2019
Aug 7-9	Gary C. An (Division of Acute Care Surgery, Univ. of Vermont Larner College of Medicine)	Control Discovery Techniques Applied to Mathematical Models for Critical Care Medicine	Judy Day
Aug 25-31	Heather Brooks (Mathematics, UCLA); Maryann Hohn (Mathematics, Pomona College); Candice Price (Mathematics, Smith College); Ami Radunskaya (Mathematics, Pomona College); Suzanne Sindi (Mathematics, UC Merced); Nakeya Williams (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy); Shelby Wilson (Biology, Univ. of Maryland)	Parasite risks and the evolution of social behaviors and emergent population organization	Nina Fefferman
September 2019
Sep 10	Jeremy Van Cleve (Biology, Univ. of Kentucky)	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar: Components of cooperation: Synergy in structured populations and the evolution of guilt
Sep 24-26	Richard Horan (Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State Univ.); David Finnoff (Economics and Finance, Univ. Wyoming)	Incorporating environmental and demographic stochasticity into bioeconomic models of optimal renewable resource management	Charles Sims
Sep 26–Dec 5	Etotépé Aïkpémi Sogbohossou (Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin)	Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin	Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab
October 2019
Sep 26–Dec 5	Etotépé Aïkpémi Sogbohossou (Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin)	Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin	Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab
Oct 8-9	Tom McAvoy (Quarantine Lab, Entomology, Virginia Tech)	Mathematical modeling of population dynamics and interactions among HWA and two predatory beetles	Suzanne Lenhart, Greg Wiggins, and Hannah Thompson
Oct 10-11	Ivan Sudakov (Physics, Univ. of Dayton); Sergei Petrovskii (Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK); James D. Witts (Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of New Mexico); Colin Carlson (Biology, Georgetown Univ.)	Nonlinearity in past mass extinctions	Colin D. Sumrall (Paleobiologist, Earth and Planetary Sciences)
Oct 15	Luke J. Matthews (Behavioral and Social Scientist, RAND Corporation; Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School; Co-Director, RAND Center for Applied Network Analysis and System Science)	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar: Cultural inheritance mechanics: Their affordances for evolutionary adaptation and applications to policy analysis
Oct 18-19	Liz Stanhope (Lewis & Clark College); Kristine Grayson (Univ. of Richmond); Erik Larson (Macalester College); Paul Overvoorde (Macalester College); Andrew Zieffler (Univ. of Minnesota)	Assessing undergraduate quantitative biology skills	Suzanne Lenhart; Louis Gross
Oct 18-21	Maria Leite (Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of South Florida); Benito Chen-Charpentier (Mathematics, Univ. of Texas); Natali Hritonenko (Mathematics, Prairie View A&M Univ., TX); Folashade Agusto (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Kansas)	Plant sustainability under virus co-infection and harvesting	Orou Gaoue
Oct 24-26	Noa Pinter-Wollman (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA); Elizabeth Hobson (Bio Sciences, Univ. of Cincinnati); Daniel Larremore (Computer Science, Univ. of Colorado Boulder); Michaela Puck Rombach (Math & Stats, Univ. of Vermont); Saray Shai (Comp Sci, Wesleyan Univ.); Matthew Silk (Ecology and Conservation, Univ of Exeter)	Null models in social behavior	Nina Fefferman
Oct 27-29	Marinez Ferreira de Siqueira (Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute)	Scalable computational framework to assess climate change impacts and anthropogenic changes in Atlantic Rainforest biodiversity from a restoration perspective	Mona Papeş
November 2019
Sep 26–Dec 5	Etotépé Aïkpémi Sogbohossou (Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin)	Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin	Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab
Nov 20-27	Karen Maguire (Economics, Oklahoma State Univ.)	Pecking order? Fracking boom and bird populations on the High Plains of Colorado	Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab
Nov 25-26	Kim Cuddington (Biology, Univ. of Waterloo, ON); Tessa Francis (Puget Sound Institute, Univ. of Washington, Tacoma); Alan Hastings (Environmental Science and Policy, Univ. of California, Davis); Ying-Cheng Lai (School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State Univ,Tempe); Simon Levin (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton Univ., NJ); Andrew Morozov (Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK); Sergei Petrovskii (Mathematics, Univ. of Leicester, UK); Mary Lou Zeeman (Mathematics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME)	Mismatched transients in the dynamics of social and ecological systems	Sergey Gavrilets
December 2019
Sep 26–Dec 5	Etotépé Aïkpémi Sogbohossou (Univ. of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin)	Niche modeling of species of concern in Benin	Mona Papeş and the NIMBioS Spatial Analysis Lab
Dec 4-6	David Kling (Applied Economics, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis); James Sanchirico (Environmental Science and Policy, Univ. of California, Davis); Mike Neubert (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)	Matching policy scope to ecosystem scale: Lessons from environmental federalism	Charles Sims, Suzanne Lenhart
Dec 9-13	David Swofford (Florida Museum of Natural History)	Porting spatially explicit model of UCE sequence evolution SelON into PAUP	Michael Gilchrist, Brian O'Meara

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.