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Lisette de Pillis (Norman F. Sprague Professor of Life Sciences and Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College)
May 5, 2023 (6:00 pm CDT)
Donald W. Reynolds Center Auditorium
145 N Buchanan Ave
Fayetteville, AR 72701.
This lecture is open to all interested members of the public. No registration or ticket is required.
Attendees may also be interested in our panel discussion on Women in Mathematics, to be held at the same location at 5:15 p.m.
The public lecture will be held in tandem with the Spring Lecture Series in Mathematics, a research-oriented conference featuring a series of five lectures delivered by Dr. Anna Mazucatto focussing on Turbulence, Fluids and Mixing.
Mathematical models hold the keys to understanding some of the most interesting and complex phenomena in the natural world! In this talk, we will explore how to harness the power of mathematical modeling to answer challenging questions that may at first seem unsolvable. Can an overflowing bathtub help us figure out how to achieve herd immunity in a pandemic? Can the interaction between a rabbit and a lynx help us understand how human immune cells fight cancer? By making a few simplifying assumptions, we can draw parallels between natural systems that may appear radically different on the surface to unlock new levels of understanding the world around us.
About the Speaker. Dr. Lisette de Pillis is the Norman F. Sprague Professor of Life Sciences and a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. Passionate about using mathematics to seek solutions to real-world problems, she works with biologists, oncologists, biotechnology researchers, and other mathematicians to search for new ways to treat diseases that interact with the immune system, in particular cancer, HIV, SARS-CoV-2, and Type I diabetes. Dr. de Pillis has been recognized for her multidisciplinary research excellence with the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar Award from the Argonne National Laboratory. She is also a HERS-CBL Clare Boothe Luce Leadership in STEM Scholar, an Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance Distinguished Fellow, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.