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Dr. Howard (Howie) Weiss
Professor
Office Skiles 108E
Phone 404 385 2134
Email weiss [at] math.gatech.edu
Home Page www.math.gatech.edu/~weiss

Area of Research Dynamical Systems, Population Dynamics, Mathematical Ecology, Infectious Diseases, Statistical Physics, Geometry, Fractals, and Wavelets
Degree Ph.D. 1986, University of Maryland

Current research interests:

My main research interests revolve around applications of dynamical systems to population biology/ecology, statistical physics, geometry, and fractals/wavelets.

  • Dynamics and applications of density dependent age structured population models
  • Dynamics and applications of agent based population models
  • Global bifurcations
  • Thermodynamic formalism, including rigidity properties of free energy (and other periodic orbit invariants)
  • Wavelet regularity via thermodynamic formalism
  • Genericity of stochastic behavior
  • Unification of the following problems: Can you hear the shape of a drum?, does the Dedekind zeta function determine the number field?, and does the free energy determine the potential for a lattice gas?
  • Dynamics of geodesic flows on Teichmuller space
  • Dynamics of geodesic flows on positively curved manifolds
  • Spatial models of infectious diseases

School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0160
phone: 404-894-2700, fax: 404-894-4409, webmaster@math.gatech.edu

URL:http://www.math.gatech.edu/people/faculty/weiss.html
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