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Math 636: Mathematical Modeling Fall 2017
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Math 636 - PNAS Reports

Early this semester, you are going to write a review based on articles from the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). You will select an article from this journal, then write a report (2-5 pages) on this article. In particular, you will begin with a summary of what the authors showed in their article, then you will detail the mathematical modeling required to demonstrate their results or some aspect of the mathematical modeling. The article that you choose must be less than 5 years old and each student must select a unique article. (Exceptions to this rule can be made for reasons, such as particular interest or advice from a future advisor.) You will email me the details on the article that you have selected (title, PNAS issue, date, pages, etc.), then I will post it below, so others will not select the same article. Be sure to attach a PDF version of the article so that I can have it in my files. You can change your mind, but you must let me know so that I can update the list for other students. Articles will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. (I will try very hard to update this page daily with any changes.) I will check that each of you choose a unique article. Your review will be due Thur. Sept. 28.

Student and PNAS Article

  1. Sidney Arthofer -- Malte F. Jansen, "Glacial ocean circulation and stratification explained by reduced atmospheric temperature," PNAS (2017) 114, 45-50.
  2. Jane Berk -- Aart Overeem, Hidde Leijnse, and Remko Uijlenhoet, "Country-wide rainfall maps from cellular communication networks," PNAS (2013) 110, 2741–2745.
  3. Joshua Borjon -- Hanno Seebens, Nicole Schwartz, Peter J. Schupp, and Bernd Blasius, "Predicting the spread of marine species introduced by global shipping," PNAS (2016) 113, 5646–5651.
  4. Lourdes Coria -- Henning Galinski, Antonio Ambrosio, Pasqualino Maddalena, Iwan Schenker, Ralph Spolenak, and Federico Capasso, "Instability-induced pattern formation of photoactivated functional polymers," PNAS (2014) 111, 17017-17022.
  5. Zachary Dickinson -- Wenrui Hao, Hannah M. Komar, Phil A. Hart, Darwin L. Conwell, Gregory B. Lesinski, and Avner Friedman, "Mathematical model of chronic pancreatitis," PNAS (2017) 114, 5011–5016.
  6. Nick Ferrante -- Kouji H. Harada, Tamon Niisoe, Mie Imanaka, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Katsumi Amako, Yukiko Fujii, Masatoshi Kanameishi, Kenji Ohse, Yasumichi Nakai, Tamami Nishikawa, Yuuichi Saito, Hiroko Sakamoto, Keiko Ueyama, Kumiko Hisaki, Eiji Ohara, Tokiko Inoue, Kanako Yamamoto, Yukiyo Matsuoka, Hitomi Ohata, Kazue Toshima, Ayumi Okada, Hitomi Sato, Toyomi Kuwamori, Hiroko Tani, Reiko Suzuki, Mai Kashikura, Michiko Nezu, Yoko Miyachi, Fusako Arai, Masanori Kuwamori, Sumiko Harada Akira Ohmori, Hirohiko Ishikawa, and Akio Koizumi, "Radiation dose rates now and in the future for residents neighboring restricted areas of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant," PNAS (2014) 111, E914–E923.
  7. Abraham Flores -- Elisa Benincà, Bill Ballantine, Stephen P. Ellner, and Jef Huisman, "Species fluctuations sustained by a cyclic succession at the edge of chaos," PNAS (2015) 112, 6389–6394.
  8. Garrett Gallear -- Clayton R. Magill, Gail M. Ashley, and Katherine H. Freeman, "Ecosystem variability and early human habitats in eastern Africa, " PNAS (2013) 110, 1167-1174.
  9. Tristan Hillis -- Antonio Garcia Munoz and Kate G. Isaak, "Probing exoplanet clouds with optical phase curves," PNAS (2015) 112, 13461-13466.
  10. Horatio Lopez -- Rosalind M. Eggo, James G. Scott, Alison P. Galvani, and Lauren Ancel Meyers, "Respiratory virus transmission dynamics determine timing of asthma exacerbation peaks: Evidence from a population-level model," PNAS (2016) 113, 2194-2199.
  11. Zachary Maches -- Lauren M. Aycocka, Hilary M. Hursta, Dmitry K. Efimkind, Dina Genkinaa, Hsin-I Lua, Victor M. Galitskia, and I. B. Spielmana, "Brownian motion of solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate," PNAS (2017) 114, 2503–2508.
  12. Armand Martin -- Nan Chena and Andrew J. Majda, "Simple dynamical models capturing the key features of the Central Pacific El Niño," PNAS (2016) 113, 11732–11737.
  13. Eric Medwedeff -- Cristina Lopes, Michal Kucera, and Alan C. Mix, "Climate change decouples oceanic primary and export productivity and organic carbon burial," PNAS (2015) 112, 332–335.
  14. Ghanshyam Mishra -- Wang, Xin-ping and Schaffer, Benjamin Eli and Yang, Zhenlei and Rodriguez-Iturbe, Ignacio, "Probabilistic model predicts dynamics of vegetation biomass in a desert ecosystem in NW China," PNAS (2017) 114, E4944-E4950.
  15. Isoleil Montalvo -- Wenrui Hao, Elliott D. Crouser, and Avner Friedman, "Mathematical model of sarcoidosis," PNAS (2014) 111, 16065–16070.
  16. Nour Nona -- Daan Frenkel, K. Julian Schrenk, and Stefano Martiniani, "Monte Carlo sampling for stochastic weight functions," PNAS (2017) 114, 6924-6929.
  17. Clemens Oszkinat -- Richard P. Mann and Dirk Helbing, "Optimal incentives for collective intelligence," PNAS (2017) 114, 5077–5082.
  18. Matteo Polimeno -- John H. Seinfeld, Christopher Bretherton, Kenneth S. Carslaw, Hugh Coe, Paul J. DeMott, Edward J. Dunlea, Graham Feingold, Steven Ghan, Alex B. Guenther, Ralph Kahn, Ian Kraucunas, Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Mario J. Molina, Athanasios Nenes, Joyce E. Pennerr , Kimberly A. Prather, V. Ramanathan, Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, Philip J. Rasch, A. R. Ravishankara, Daniel Rosenfeld, Graeme Stephens, and Robert Wood,"Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of areosol-cloud interactions in the climate system," PNAS (2016) 113, 5781–5790.
  19. Ludwig Siegert -- Hans Lueders, Jens Hainmueller, and Duncan Lawrence, "Providing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants in California improves traffic safety," PNAS (2017) 114, 4111–4116.
  20. Jason Sorger -- Chengzhi Shia, Marc Duboisa, Yuan Wanga, and Xiang Zhang, "High-speed acoustic communication by multiplexing orbital angular momentum," PNAS (2017) 114, 7250–7253.
  21. Brian Sturgis-Jensen -- Roy Harpaz, Gašper Tkačik, and Elad Schneidman, "Discrete modes of social information processing predict individual behavior of fish in a group," PNAS (2017) 114, Early Ed.
  22. Kirk Tolfa -- Scott A. Epstein, Sang-Mi Lee, Aaron S. Katzenstein, Marc Carreras-Sospedra, Xinqiu Zhang, Salvatore C. Farina, Pouya Vahmani, Philip M. Fine, and George Ban-Weiss, "Air-quality implications of widespread adoption of cool roofs on ozone and particulate matter in southern California," PNAS (2017) 114, 8991–8996.
  23. Kyle Woolsey -- Alexandre Pastor-Bernier,  Charles R. Plott, and Wolfram Schultz, "Monkeys choose as if maximizing utility compatible with basic principles of revealed preference theory," PNAS 2017 114, E1766-E1775.
  24. Stephanie Young -- Huaiyu Tian, Pengbo Yu, Bernard Cazelles, Lei Xu, Hua Tan, Jing Yang, Shanqian Huang, Bo Xu, Jun Cai, Chaofeng Ma, Jing Wei, Shen Li, Jianhui Qu, Marko Laine, Jingjun Wang, Shilu Tong, Nils Chr. Stenseth, and Bing Xu, "Interannual cycles of Hantaan virus outbreaks at the human–animal interface in Central China are controlled by temperature and rainfall," PNAS (2017) 114, 8041–8046.

 

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